ECOLOGICAL NICHE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does ecological niche mean? 

• ECOLOGICAL NICHE (noun)
  The noun ECOLOGICAL NICHE has 1 sense:

1. (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)

  Familiarity information: ECOLOGICAL NICHE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECOLOGICAL NICHE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

ecological niche; niche

Hypernyms ("ecological niche" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Domain category:

bionomics; ecology; environmental science (the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment)

 Context examples 

They then projected these ecological niche models onto palaeoclimate reconstructions to map potentially-suitable habitats over millions of years.

(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)

They used this climatic information to build an ‘ecological niche model’ to map suitable and unsuitable regions for each bird group.

(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)