ECOLOGICAL NICHE


Meaning of ECOLOGICAL NICHE in English

"The position or status of an organism within its community and ecosystemresulting in the organism’s structural adaptatios , physiological responses and specific behaviour (inherited and / or learned). Depends not only on where an organissm lives but on what it does. The habitat is the organisms’s address, and the ecological niche its profession, biologically speaking". See : Habitat

Fishery English glossary.      Английский глоссарий рыболовства .