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 ...

American marine biologist Edward “Ed” Ricketts brought yet another new perspective to ecology, focusing not only on naming organisms, but on studying each habitat holistically to understand how each ...

Zeder, Dorian Q. Fuller, Alison Crowther, Greger Larson, Jon M. Erlandson, Tim Denham, et al. 2016. "Ecological Consequences of Human Niche Construction: Examining Long-Term Anthropogenic Shaping of ...

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 ...

"Niche partitioning" is one of the most fundamental and essential ecological concepts in explaining how diverse organisms coexist and how resources such as activity time, location, and prey differ ...