The word “niche” implies a specialized environment. But to Fiona Doetsch, the stem cell niche is anything but. For brain stem cells, “the whole organism is the niche,” Doetsch told the audience at the ...

The program shows a raft of geckos and skinks that find themselves carried by currents to a new island. Here they must find a niche or they will die. In finding a niche, organism "invaders" like these ...

During the past century, the fundamental niche, the complete set of environments that allow an individual, population, or species to persist, has shaped ecological thinking. It is a crucial concept ...

THINK about evolution and you’ll probably conjure up a picture of natural selection sculpting organisms over aeons of time to become adapted to specific environments. Hot climates select animals with ...

Have students locate the Seychelles on a world map or a globe and make some predictions about its climate based on its latitude. Review with students the following concepts: habitat, niche, and ...