A. It reduces competition among species so that they can co - exist, which helps maintain the balance of the ecosystem B. It allows species to have more space to reproduce, which is good for increasing biodiversity C. It makes each species more independent, so that when one species is in...
Rare species occupy uncommon niches.doi:10.1038/SREP06012John MarkhamNature Publishing GroupMarkham, J. 2014. Rare species occupy uncommon niches. Scientific Reports 4: 6012.
Our theoretical model predicts that invading species that overcome universal tradeoffs could eventually displace co-occurring native species that occupy similar niches as the invader. [If using Chesson’s framework60, this can be conceived as enhancing the fitness of invaders relative to co-occurring ...
Each finch species had a beak shape adapted to a specific type of food, showcasing how species can evolve to occupy a unique niche space. Why Don't Species Just Change Their Niche? It's not as simple as just deciding to switch roles in an ecosystem. A species' ecological niche is the...
As a result, male and female organisms within a species can also occupy subtly different "niches". Given that these demographic groups within a population often have the potential to play different functional roles within an environment, trait differences among sexes can also represent important ...
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2014). The underlying idea is that diverse habitats or resource-rich environments provide more niches or opportunities for species to occupy. This increased niche availability can support more species with different ecological requirements, increasing species richness. Thus, species richness appeared to ...
(Fig.1). These two lineages evolved through allopatric speciation and currently, due to no shared haplotypes in nuDNA (23,518 RAD loci), are considered as evolutionarily significant units17,20. Ecological niche tests have shown that these lineages occupy similar local habitats within their ...
the question of host-specific microbial assemblages becomes difficult to address because species often occupy different habitat niches, and different environmental conditions may confound questions of host specificity. For several reasons, we have identified pond-dwelling larval amphibian communities as a mod...
Biodiverse forests are more productive The fact that biodiversity increases productivity had previously been demonstrated through experiments in grassland ecosystems in Europe and the U.S. By contrast, since it was assumed that all tree species occupy similar ecological niches, a minimal effect of biodi...