The ability to tolerate toxic substances can help animals find new food sources and thrive in certain ecological niches. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have now ...

In ecology, a niche is a term describing the relational position of a species or population in an ecosystem. More formally, the niche includes how a population responds to the abundance of its ...

Beavers are attracted to the sound of running water and instinctively pile branches and mud on top of the sound. The end result is a beaver dam. A pond or small lake fills up behind the dam and that ...

The rate at which new species evolve is limited by competition for ecological niches. The study, which analyzes the evolutionary and genetic relationships between all 461 songbird species that ...

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A group of ecologists has started creating a periodic table of ecological niches similar to chemistry's periodic table. It will be a critical resource for scientists seeking to understand how a ...

Competition over niches between similar species should have sent the rarities into extinction (or led them to adapt to slightly different niches). A new ecological modeling paper in Nature by ...

Nature - Ecological niche models reveal the importance of climate variability for the biogeography of protosteloid amoebae; Support For Indiana Public Media Comes From. About A Moment of Science.

Ecological flexibility, not tools or genes, explains why only one migration out of Africa succeeded around 50,000 years ago.

More information: Maike Laura Fischer et al, Divergent venom effectors correlate with ecological niche in neuropteran predators, Communications Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06666-9.

Such high biodiversity flies in the face of predictions made by a leading theory of ecology, which says that in a stable ecosystem, every niche or role should be occupied by one species. Niche theory ...