Question

Resource partitioning would be most likely to occur between:______.

a) sympatric populations of a predator and its prey.
b) sympatric populations of species with similar ecological niches.
c) sympatric populations of a flowering plant and its specialized insect pollinator.
d) allopatric populations of the same animal species.
e) allopatric populations of species with similar ecological niches.

Answer 1

b)

Step-by-step explanation:

Resource partitioning; is the way of division of resources by species with similar ecological niche to avoid competition in an ecological niche which help in reduce competition, through which species with similar ecological niche can coexist. In any environment, organisms compete for limited resources, like food, so organisms and different species have to find ways to participate timing of taking food or area to coexist with one another known as resource partitioning, to get rid off from resource problem.