The Hutchinsonian niche uses mathematics and statistics to try to explain how species coexist within a given community. The concept of ecological niche is central to ecological biogeography, which ...

This is called niche construction — the beaver doesn’t just occupy its ecological niche, it actively constructs it. Beavers may engineer a hollow portion within a dam to use as a lodge or build a ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Within oligotrophic ecosystems, resource limitations coupled with interspecific variation in morphology, physiology, and life history ...

The central idea is that each species occupies a unique ecological niche, a distinct functional role within the ecosystem (Darwin 1859). Under this view species richness arises from the actions of ...

Our findings highlight the complex interplay between the ecological, physiological and evolutionary determinants of niche morphology, and caution against making inferences based on a single ...

Avian influenza (AI) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting poultry and wild water birds, posing significant global challenges due to its high mortality rates and economic impacts. Highly ...

This is not simply because the organisms that become extinct leave behind empty ecological niches that are filled by creatures from different ancestry than the former inhabitants. Instead ...

Although it is the sister species of the brown bear, it has evolved to occupy a narrower ecological niche, with many body characteristics adapted for cold temperatures, for moving across snow ...