Hutchinsonian niche uses mathematics and statistics to try to explain how species coexist within a given community. The concept of ecological niche is central...
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Ecology (redirect from Ecological)
": 519 The ecological niche is a central concept in the ecology of organisms and is sub-divided into the fundamental and the realized niche. The fundamental...
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context of child development Ecological niche, a term describing the relational position of an organism's species Niche differentiation, in ecology, the...
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competitor or to an evolutionary or behavioral shift toward a different ecological niche. The principle has been paraphrased in the maxim "complete competitors...
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macroevolutionary and ecological consequences. Microbialites represent ancient niches constructed by bacterial communities which give evidence that niche construction...
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Ecosystem (redirect from Ecological systems)
Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-20833-4. Schoener, Thomas W. (2009). "Ecological Niche". In Simon A. Levin (ed.). The Princeton Guide to Ecology. Princeton:...
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Species distribution modelling (redirect from Ecological niche modelling)
Species distribution modelling (SDM), also known as environmental (or ecological) niche modelling (ENM), habitat modelling, predictive habitat distribution...
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Biological interaction (redirect from Ecological interaction)
2017-11-17. Retrieved 2018-10-04. Pocheville, Arnaud (2015). "The Ecological Niche: History and Recent Controversies". In Heams, Thomas; Huneman, Philippe;...
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Community (ecology) (redirect from Ecological community)
also known as a biocoenosis, biotic community, biological community, ecological community, or life assemblage. The term community has a variety of uses...
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Ecosystem diversity (redirect from Ecological diversity)
including the number of different niches, the number of and other ecological processes. An example of ecological diversity on a global scale would be...
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A species habitat can be seen as the physical manifestation of its ecological niche. Thus "habitat" is a species-specific term, fundamentally different...
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An ecological pyramid (also trophic pyramid, Eltonian pyramid, energy pyramid, or sometimes food pyramid) is a graphical representation designed to show...
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resources but by the amount of time (i.e. temporal division of the ecological niche). Hawks and owls can hunt the same field or meadow for the same rodents...
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pressures from other species (e.g. superior competitors). An organism's ecological niche is determined by the biotic and abiotic factors that make up that specific...
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Species (redirect from Ecological species)
species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology, behaviour, or ecological niche. In addition, paleontologists use the concept of the chronospecies...
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Gause principle: species cannot coexist if they have the same ecological niche. The word "niche" refers to a species' requirements for survival and reproduction...
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Ontogenetic niche shift (abbreviated ONS) is an ecological phenomenon where an organism (usually an animal) changes its diet or habitat during its ontogeny...
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Character displacement (redirect from Ecological character displacement)
environment two competing species must differ in their respective ecological niche; without differentiation, one species will eliminate or exclude the...
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Consumer-resource model (category Ecological niche)
have found success in formalizing ecological principles and modeling experiments involving microbial ecosystems. Niche models are a notable class of CRMs...
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Guild (ecology) (redirect from Ecological guild)
that the species within a guild occupy the same, or even similar, ecological niches. Guilds are defined according to the locations, attributes, or activities...
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how ecological selection can create niches for different species by performing the same function with different outcomes. In cases where ecological and...
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Ecosystem engineer (category Ecological niche)
effect. Humans are thought to be the most dramatic ecosystem engineers. Niche construction has been prevalent since the earliest days of human activity...
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extinction. On the other hand, a species with a highly specialized ecological niche is more effective at competing with other organisms.[citation needed]...
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Balance of nature (redirect from Ecological balance)
The balance of nature, also known as ecological balance, is a theory that proposes that ecological systems are usually in a stable equilibrium or homeostasis...
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Chinese rice fish (section Ecological niche)
The Chinese rice fish (Oryzias sinensis) is a species of fish in the genus Oryzias. This freshwater fish occurs in swamps, stagnant parts of streams, rice...
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organisms arise and thrive when they are able to find and exploit an ecological niche—and species become extinct when they are no longer able to survive...
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the needs of their metabolisms and have evolved to fill a specific ecological niche within specific geographical contexts. Omnivorous humans are highly...
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Invasive species (section Ecological)
the limiting factors in these situations. Every species occupies an ecological niche in its native ecosystem; some species fill large and varied roles,...
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extinction event, its descendants might have evolved to fill the same ecological niche as humans. While the theory has been met with criticism from other...
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closely resembles the antelopes of the Old World and fills a similar ecological niche due to parallel evolution. It is the only surviving member of the family...
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