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The ecological niche concept is very important in ecology. But
what a niche looks like is fairly abstract. Now, for the first time, Wageningen
and British researchers have concretely visualised this. The ecologists have
been able to determine the position of fourteen fish species in relationship to
their food in a four-dimensional food diagram. Their pioneering work was
published in this month’s issue of the scientific journal Theoretical Ecology.