What is talent â and can science spot what we will be best at? My interest in the science of talent has a personal backstory. By the age of three, I'd had 21 ear infections and after an operation to remove fluid from my ears, it took me an extra step to process speech. To help me catch up with my peers, I was diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder. I repeated third grade.
Upcoming Events. Backyard Niche Partitioning. Niche partitioning is a fun term that has a range of nuances to its meaning. Here we will use it to simply illustrate how several backyard species use the same food resources yet are able to live in the same general area because they feed at different times of the day.
Ecological niche. In ecology, a niche is a term describing the relational position of a species or population in an ecosystem. More formally, the niche includes how a population responds to the abundance of its resources and enemies (e. g., by growing when resources are abundant, and predators, parasites and pathogens are scarce) and how it affects those same factors (e. g., by reducing the abundance of resources through consumption and contributing to the population growth of enemies by falling prey to them).