Barrons AP Environmental Science

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1

  1. (A) Organisms that live in specialized niches are not adapted to a wide
    range of environmental circumstances and food sources. An example of an
    animal living in a specialized niche would be the koala, which lives in
    eucalyptus trees and exclusively consumes eucalyptus leaves. Should
    anything affect the eucalyptus trees, the viability of the koala population is
    threatened. The advantage of living in a specialized niche is that there is
    little interspecific competition for the same resource.

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