Question

For many generations, a forest has been the home of a single species of bird; these birds primarily eat insects off the forest floor. One year, humans living in the area accidentally introduce a new species of bird to the forest. This new species has the same diet as the existing species. Predict what will most likely result from these two species of bird living in the same ecosystem. In your answer, be sure to refer to the competitive exclusion principle.

Answer 1

Ans) When two species of birds living in the same ecosystem and also have the same diet this will make them competitor of each other of the same limited resources.Competition always produces a winner and a loser .they always try to occupy the ecological niche, they cannot coexists in that area or forest.. When one species has even the slightest advantage over another, the one with the advantage will dominate in the long term. when there is two competitor one will always have slight advantage over the other which lead to second  one to become extinct or to shift another ecological niche or  The loser will adapt by becoming the equivalent of a servant or slave to the winner.

The competitive exclusion principle states that any two species that require the same resources cannot coexist. which is also known as Gause's law of competitive exclusion.because, in a competition to survive, one species not leaving anything for the opponent or competitor they try to consume as many resources as they can.