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 ...

The Hutchinsonian niche uses mathematics and statistics to try to explain how species coexist within a given community. The concept of ecological niche is central to ecological biogeography, which ...

This process in which one species gives rise to multiple species that exploit different niches is called adaptive radiation. The ecological niches exert the selection pressures that push the ...

Do these species originate and accumulate morphological and ecological differences at a steady rate, or, given vacant niches, do they fill them rapidly? Paleontologists first indicated that a ...

By bleaching away pigments in plant cells, he managed to create "transparent wood", publishing his technique in "a niche wood technology journal". That paper "remained the last word on see-through ...

Ecological succession is the process by which the mix of species ... many plant and animal communities to thrive within a particular climatic and geographic niche—not just those adapted to the absence ...

We would need the regenerative capacity of 1.6 Earths to provide the natural resources and ecological services we currently use. This is possible only in the short term. Only for a brief period can we ...

capitalized on the ecological niches left vacant to turn into the modern birds we know today. Around 66 million years ago, a catastrophic event known as the Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K–Pg ...

Can we repair some of the damage humans have done to ecosystems and biodiversity? Ecological restoration seeks to do just that, and restoration ecology is the science that underpins it.

About 11,000 bird species now exist, occupying a dizzying array of ecological niches. The researchers projected future extinctions of more than 1,000 species over the next two centuries.

The following examples illustrate just a few of the ways that ecological knowledge has positively influenced our lives. In the 1960s, ecological research identified two of the major causes of poor ...

promote ecological science by improving communication among ecologists; raise the public’s level of awareness of the importance of ecological science; increase the resources available for the conduct ...