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 ...

Organisms that respond quickly to changing environments have an advantage over those that don’t. However, reacting too ...

PREVIOUS studies on certain Tanganyika Cichlids 1 have shown that, in species of the genus Plecodus, the stomach content is often composed of fish scales. It was not known if this was an ...

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 ...