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.
ecology, a niche is a term with a variety of meanings related to the behavior of a species living. under specific environmental conditions (Schoener, 2009). The ecological niche describes how. an organism or population responds to the distribution of resources and competitors (for. example, by growing when resources are abundant, and when predators, parasites, and pathogens. are scarce) and how it in turn alters those same factors (for example, limiting access to resources.