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and assemble into communities or
ecosystems. The most fundamental
and perhaps most
difficult of these concepts is that of
the ecological niche. A niche refers
to the way in which an
organism fits into an ecological
community or ecosystem. Through
the process of natural
selection, a niche is the evolutionary
result of a species’ morphological