The niche concept is a good example of an idea in ecology that is continually changing. It is probably the most important idea in ecology th...

Sometimes I find myself defending the value of microcosms and model organisms for ecological research. Research systems do not always have t...

These days, the term ‘niche’ manages to cover both incredibly vague and incredibly specific ideas. All the many ways of thinking about an or...

Are there a limited number of categories or groupings into which all niches can be classified?  I’ll  admit that my first reaction is s...

*Sorry for the low frequency of posts these days – I seem to be insanely busy this summer  ☺ Oscar Godoy, Nathan Kraft, Jonathan Levine....

Neutral Biogeography and the Evolution of Climatic Niches. Florian C. Boucher, Wilfried Thuiller, T. Jonathan Davies, and Sébastien Lavergne...

“How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!” (Thomas H. Huxley, commenting on the obviousness of Darwin’s theory of natural...

Understanding how species coexist has been the raison d'etre for many ecologists over the past 100 years. The quest to understand and ex...