Hutchinson’s fundamental niche, defined by the physical and biological environments in which an organism can thrive in the absence of inter-species interactions, is an important theoretical ...

Melinda A. 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 ...

Another unifying factor is the rule of natural selection, which continues to act on species that have adapted to an environmental niche. A combination of the two -- natural selection and gene flow ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...

occurs between individuals of the same species. Intraspecific competition is usually more intense than interspecific competition because the individuals have the same niche so are competing for ...