No need for niches? Neutral theory explains biodiversity when species are identical. Niche differences, or the unique ways that each species “makes its living” in nature, are the classical ...

Ecologists resolve this enigma by reasoning that other species properties must prevent the elimination of the inferior competitors. These are what ecologists call niche differences, species ...

Climate change could pose a dual threat to native species by reducing their suitable habitats and increasing predation ...

The species thus occupies an "empty" ecological niche. This situation allows two interpretations. First, one can see the introduction as an alteration of the ecosystem by an alien element that at ...

The researchers fear that this increased negative interaction could lead to local extinctions of native salmonids, similar to ...

Climate change and invasive species will reduce habitat space for native fish and increase harmful interactions.

A Yale-led study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on butterflies, turning their species-rich, ...

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus, gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked up by an ancestor, ...

Mountaintops host some of the world's most diverse butterfly species, but climate change could transform these habitats into ...

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus ... This development also opened up a new ecological niche for this group of diatoms—living on seaweed in the intertidal zones.