Ecological Niche Visualized: 14 Fish Get A Four-Dimensional Food Diagram
Saturday, July 12, 2014 - 15:40
in Biology & Nature
We're all aware of the concept of an ecological food niche and a web that extends from it - but it is pretty simplistic and easily leads to claims that if species X is used too much, we are doomed. Literate people know that 99.999% of species had gone extinct and we never even knew they existed.But some are more important than others and so researchers have taught to make that abstract concept real. Biologists in a new paper outlined the position of fourteen fish species in relationship to their food in a four-dimensional food diagram. read more