A
niche is a term describing the position of an organism in an
ecology. It may include descriptions of the organism's
life history[?],
habitat, position in the
food web[?]. A niche has been described as 'an N-dimensional space in a multiple-dimensional hypervolume.' According to the
principle of mutual exclusivity[?], no two species can occupy the same niche in the same environment.
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