ecological niche and adaptions

• niche

  • role a species plays in its habitat- biotic and abiotic interactions
  • can only be occupied by one species
  • if 2 or more compete for same niche, better adapted will out compete= lead to extinction
• adaptions 


  features which increase chance of survival thus reproduction
• anatominical

  • structural changes eg claws
• behavioural

  • changes in behaviour eg mating techniques
• physiological

  • processes inside body eg venom