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 ...

The end result is a beaver dam. A pond or small lake fills up behind the dam and that is where the beaver then lives. This is called niche construction — the beaver doesn’t just occupy its ecological ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ecological niche modeling (ENM) was conducted to estimate and compare the occurrence probability of clonal and non-clonal ...