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 ...

Skeleton shows Mixodectes pungens lived in trees and primarily ate leaves during the Paleocene epoch, highlighting its unique ...

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 ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. We characterize the realized ecological niches of 133 phytoplankton taxa in the open ocean based on observations from the MAREDAT ...

This is not simply because the organisms that become extinct leave behind empty ecological niches that are filled by creatures from different ancestry than the former inhabitants. Instead ...

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 ...

Life that survived the so-called Great Dying repopulated the planet, diversified into freshly exposed ecological niches, and gave rise to new creatures, including rodent-size mammals and the first ...

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 ...