Anolis lizards in the tropical rainforest all eat the same insects. over time different lizard species have adapted to live in different habitats, with some on the forest floor and others up in the trees. natural selection favored traits that allowed these species to diverge from each other in order to reduce competition for food between similar lizard species. what is this divergence in lizards an example of

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Ellen

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26 December, 16:30

Anolis lizards in the tropical rainforest all eat the same insects. over time different lizard species have adapted to live in different habitats, with some on the forest floor and others up in the trees. natural selection favored traits that allowed these species to diverge from each other in order to reduce competition for food between similar lizard species. what is this divergence in lizards an example of

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Giuliana Copeland · Answer 1

Resource partitioning

Resource partitioning refers to differences in resource use between species regardless of the origin of the differences. Similar species can coexist in the same ecological community without one pushing the others to extinction through competition. Species compete for the same resources which include nutrients and habitats which are the raw materials needed by organisms to grow, live, and reproduce. For the question given above, the divergence in lizards is an example of resource partitioning.