The niche is one of the most enduring concepts and or-ganizing principles in ecology. It is
discussed at length and used throughout virtually all textbooks in ecology and en …

6. Conclusion It may come as something of a surprise that ecological niche, a term so
common in the popular media, has three distinct meanings among scientists, each with an …

In Umberto Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum, a group of young scholars invents a theory
that a tremendous power hidden from the world hundreds of years ago by the Templars is …

The niche is a central concept in ecology. The ecological niche has long been viewed as a
metaphor (eg, Haefner 1980), but what has not been fully appreciated about the niche is that …

Ecologists have long had a “love-hate” relationship with the niche concept. Sometimes
referred to as a term best left undefined, the niche concept nonetheless spans ecology …

The ecological niche is a prominent theoretical concept in many ecological fields, central to
ecological understanding of species interactions and community structure. To better …

By overfocusing on precise definitions, ecology has produced a confused idea of the niche
concept. This, our second paper, develops a practical philosophy for the niche that …

The ecological niche refers to the position of a species within its community. The term
'niche'seems to have first appeared in ecological publications in the 1910s (Griesemer …

In this chapter, we first trace the history of the concept of ecological niche and see how its
meanings varied with the search for a theory of ecology. The niche concept has its roots in …

The relation between niche and distribution is one of the most fraught in ecology. What is a
niche? What has a niche? Do niches evolve? What are the mechanisms that translate niche …