how do you define a niche?

Answer 1

A niche is the sum total of a species' use of biotic and abiotic resources in the environment as well as the purpose or role in which that species undertakes to maintian the natural sustenance of that environment.

Answer 2

Niche is the total role of an organism in its surrounding.
Ecological Niche is the role of an organism in the environment,its activities and relationship to the living and nonliving environment.its profession e.g.a vulture's role in its surrounding is that of a scavenger.
Habitat Niche is the smallest unit of a habitat occupied by an organism.e.g. the bark of a tree is the habitat niche of a woodpecker. Overhanging branches of a tall tree would be the same for flying fox-a large fruit eating bat.(Off course this is day-time niche for them)

Answer 3

Smallest unit of a habitat that is occupied by an organism. A habitat niche is the physical space occupied by the organism; an ecological niche is the role the organism plays in the community of organisms found in the habitat. The activities of an organism and its relationships to other organisms are determined by its particular structure, physiology, and behaviour..

Answer 4

something filled by a plant or animal that cannot compete elsewhere ( such as a cactus that can live with less water than any other or the only lizard that can eat a poisonous insect ) this referring to an evolutionary niche of course

sort of living in the corner by itself ( a niche ) and out of the competitive mainstream

Answer 5

In ecology, a niche is a term describing the relational position of a species or population in an ecosystem.

Answer 6

a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it; "he found his niche in the academic world"
recess: a small concavity
recess: an enclosure that is set back or indented
(ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)

Answer 7

A relationship between the species and their enviorment. Ex a musscle attached to a dock or peir piling. Must be able to surivive the tide and the crashing waves, while taking in the most nutrients possible. It's bulit for it's enviorment.

Answer 8

It is what an organism does during its lifecycle. Like, for example, a mosquito is a vector, so one of it's niches is a vector.

Answer 9

i think it is an ornamental recess in a wall or the like, usually semicircular in plan and arched, as for a statue or other decorative object . and it is a noun

Answer 10

It's that point where what you do or what you are contributes to the greater good.