Nuthatches and brown creepers are birds which eat insects that hide in the furrows of bark in hardwood trees. The creeper search
es for insects by hunting from the bottom of the tree trunk to the top, whereas the nuthatch searches from the top of the trunk down. These hunting behaviors best illustrate which of the following ecological concepts?
Resource partitioning is the division of certain limited resources by species to eliminate competition in an ecological niche in order to allow easy coexisting with one another
The creeper searches for insects by hunting from the bottom of the tree trunk to the top, whereas the nuthatch searches from the top of the trunk down to eliminate competition and allow for peaceful coexisting between them
The percentages of cells in each population represent the percent of the cell cycle a given cell spends in each phase, so it spends about 10-20% of its time in mitosis and 80-90% in interphase.
