The ecological niche concept is very important in ecology. But what a niche looks like is fairly abstract. Now, for the first time, researchers have concretely visualized the ecological niche. The ...

1. The ecological niche is a fundamental biological concept. Modelling species' niches is central to numerous ecological applications, including predicting species invasions, identifying reservoirs ...

Safaa Wasof, Jonathan Lenoir, Emilie Gallet-Moron, Aurélien Jamoneau, Jörg Brunet, Sara A. O. Cousins, Pieter De Frenne, Martin Diekmann, Martin Hermy, Annette Kolb ...

DNA in seawater revealed that 93% of fish species live beyond known ranges, exposing major gaps in global marine biodiversity ...

The rate at which new species evolve is limited by competition for ecological niches. The study, which analyzes the evolutionary and genetic relationships between all 461 songbird species that live in ...

Scientists have taken an unprecedented look at marine fish species living in the world's oceans by studying traces of genetic ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers compared ecological niches to identify probable mpox virus (MPXV) reservoir hosts. Study: Identifying the most probable mammal ...

More than four decades ago, field ecologists set out to quantify the diversity of trees on a forested plot on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, one of the most intensively studied tracts of tropical ...

Only 200,000 years ago there were at least seven human species roaming on Earth, one being our own species, Homo sapiens. Currently, however, we are the only hominin left. We have also become the ...