Evelyn Hutchinson, one of the great ecologists of the twentieth century, envisioned the parameters that form a niche as an “n-dimensional hyperspace.” The “fundamental niche” is the set of conditions ...Evelyn Hutchinson, one of the great ecologists of the twentieth century, envisioned the parameters that form a niche as an “n-dimensional hyperspace.” The “fundamental niche” is the set of conditions allowing the species to survive if there are no other species interfering. Species 2 similarly declines in abundance (red line), but compared with Species 1 fares a little better in the north and a little worse in the south.
Evelyn Hutchinson, one of the great ecologists of the twentieth century, envisioned the parameters that form a niche as an “n-dimensional hyperspace.” The “fundamental niche” is the set of conditions ...Evelyn Hutchinson, one of the great ecologists of the twentieth century, envisioned the parameters that form a niche as an “n-dimensional hyperspace.” The “fundamental niche” is the set of conditions allowing the species to survive if there are no other species interfering. Species 2 similarly declines in abundance (red line), but compared with Species 1 fares a little better in the north and a little worse in the south.