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Niche construction refers to the modification of selective environments by organisms. Theoretical and empirical studies of niche construction are increasing in importance as foci in evolutionary ecology. This special edition presents theoretical and ...
3 Ιουν 2021 · Niche construction theory (NCT) aims to transform and unite evolutionary biology and ecology. Much of the debate about NCT has focused on construction. Less attention has been accorded to the niche: what is it, exactly, that organisms are constructing?
24 Νοε 2020 · Examples of niche construction include the building of nests, burrows, and mounds and alternation of physical and chemical conditions by animals, and the creation of shade, influencing of wind speed, and alternation of nutrient cycling by plants.
22 Ιουν 2020 · With this theoretical framework we are able to address the dual nature of niche construction by investigating the ephemerality of the landscape (destruction rate) and the continuum of population...
Innumerable examples of niche construction are well known to biologists, even though they are not always described as niche construction. For example, animals manufacture nests, burrows, webs, and pupal cases; plants modify fire regimes, levels of atmospheric gases, and nutrient cycles; fungi decompose organic matter; and bacteria fix nutrients.
26 Ιαν 2014 · Keywords: Adaptation, adaptationism, evolution, natural selection, niche, niche construction. Niche construction is the process by which organisms bring about changes in their local environments, many of which are evolutionarily and ecologically consequential.
This paper seeks to clarify what is meant by the ‘social construction of nature’, which has become a crude but common term used to describe very different understandings of nature, knowledge and the world. I distinguish two broad varieties of construction talk in the social sciences: construction-as-refutation and ...
