How Species Share Ecological Niches

Ecological niches describe how species fit into an ecosystem. A niche includes the living and nonliving factors that shape where an organism can live. Food resources, climate, and terrain are all part of that role.

Two species cannot occupy the exact same niche in the same habitat for long. When ...

An ecological niche describes the role of an organism within its environment. The niche includes all the biotic, or living, and abiotic, or nonliving, resources and conditions that the organism uses.

For example, the niche of a hare includes abiotic factors such as the climate where it can survive and the terrain that provides shelter and ...