Ecologists make first image of food niche
Sunday, July 13, 2014 - 21:01
in Biology & Nature
The ecological niche concept is very important in ecology. But what a niche looks like is fairly abstract. Now, for the first time, researchers have concretely visualized the ecological niche. The biologists have been able to determine the position of fourteen fish species in relationship to their food in a four-dimensional food diagram.