Niche describes the role played by a particular species within the ecosystem.
NIMBY means "Not In My Back Yard" and refers to the habit of everybody to want any environmental degradation to go on somewhere else.
N niche
Definition (english only)
The place occupied by a species in its ecosystem and its role: where it lives, what it feeds on and when it performs all its activities.
ecological niche The functions of the organism in its ecological setting. See niche.
ecological resilience A system's ability to return to a prior state following environmental perturbation (stress).
Ecological niche A term with alternative definitions, not all of them synonymous. To state two:
(i) the 'occupation' or 'profession' of an organism or species; or ...
niche. the ecological role or position that a living thing or group of living things occupies in an ecosystem. For instance, a fungus occupies the niche of decomposer when it breaks down a dead plant or animal.
The mutual killing, injury or inhibition of growth of dissimilar organisms occupying the same ecological niche.
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environmental science, however, is on the processes of energy flows and nutrient cycles within these communities and ecosystems and involves such ideas as species abundance, biodiversity, complexity, trophic (feeding status) levels, ecological niches, ...
 See also: Environment, Species, Water, Organism, Condition
  
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