Fundamental and realised niches (2025)

The "Niche concept" has many slight variations. This activity introduces the niche concept and the difference between realized and fundamental niches using Paramecium. There is a second activity with a simulation of the Paramecium experiment of Gause illustrating competitive exclusion before a final activity about symbiosis in coral reefs between the coral polyps and a dinoflagellate algae, "Zooanthella".B4.2.12—Fundamental...

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