Evolutionary theory has made large impacts on our understanding and management of the
world, in part because it has been able to incorporate new data and new insights …

What are social niches, and how do they arise and change? Our first goal in the present
article is to clarify the concept of an individualized social niche and to distinguish it from …

Plasticity‐mediated changes in interaction dynamics and structure may scale up and affect
the ecological network in which the plastic species are embedded. Despite their potential …

Movement is a key means by which animals cope with variable environments. As they move,
animals construct individual niches composed of the environmental conditions they …

Niche construction denotes the alteration, destruction, or creation of environmental features
through the activities of an organism, modifying the relation between organism and …

We here develop a concept of an individualized niche in analogy to Hutchison's population-
level concept of the ecological niche. We consider the individualized (ecological) niche as …

Environments shape people, and at the same time, people are attracted to environments that
fit their characteristics because fit facilitates the achievement of people's desired life …

Recent efforts in a range of scientific fields have emphasised research and methods
concerning individual differences and individualisation. This article brings together various …

The niche of aphids is largely defined by their consumption of plant phloem sap and its
composition, including nutrients and specialized metabolites. Niche construction is the …

This paper argues that a central explanatory role for the concept of Umwelt in theoretical
biology is to be found in developmental biology, in particular in the effort to understand …