In ecology, a niche is the match of a species to a specific environmental condition. It describes how an organism or population responds to the distribution of resources and competitors (for example, ...

For a long time, the ecological niche concept was less popular for microbes than for other organisms. A new proxy for the ecological niche breadth of a microorganism, based on the variability of the ...

The ‘niche’ theory is fundamental to ecology, because niches are both drivers and consequences of evolutionary processes 1,2,3,4. The concept is easy to understand theoretically: each species tends to ...