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    Difference Between Habitat and Niche

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    Habitat refers to the physical environment where an organism lives and provides conditions for it to grow and thrive, such as temperature, resources, and soil type. Examples include deserts, forests, and oceans. A niche describes an organism's functional role in an ecosystem, including what it eats, where it lives, and how it interacts with the community. The niche is specific to a particular species and supports only that species. While a habitat can support multiple species, each species occupies a distinct niche. A niche is a component of an organism's habitat that is tailored to its specific needs.

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    Habitat refers to the physical environment where an organism lives and provides conditions for it to grow and thrive, such as temperature, resources, and soil type. Examples include deserts, forests, and oceans. A niche describes an organism's functional role in an ecosystem, including what it eats, where it lives, and how it interacts with the community. The niche is specific to a particular species and supports only that species. While a habitat can support multiple species, each species occupies a distinct niche. A niche is a component of an organism's habitat that is tailored to its specific needs.

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    Habitat refers to the physical environment where an organism lives and provides conditions for it to grow and thrive, such as temperature, resources, and soil type. Examples include deserts, forests, and oceans. A niche describes an organism's functional role in an ecosystem, including what it eats, where it lives, and how it interacts with the community. The niche is specific to a particular species and supports only that species. While a habitat can support multiple species, each species occupies a distinct niche. A niche is a component of an organism's habitat that is tailored to its specific needs.

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    Difference Between Habitat and Niche

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    Habitat refers to the physical environment where an organism lives and provides conditions for it to grow and thrive, such as temperature, resources, and soil type. Examples include deserts, forests, and oceans. A niche describes an organism's functional role in an ecosystem, including what it eats, where it lives, and how it interacts with the community. The niche is specific to a particular species and supports only that species. While a habitat can support multiple species, each species occupies a distinct niche. A niche is a component of an organism's habitat that is tailored to its specific needs.

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    habitat: is a place or area where a species

    grows, lives or thrives


    • Temperature, sunlight, rainfall, types of soil, etc. and other abiotic
    factors determine the presence of organisms present in an area.
    These factors prevailing in an area determine the best-suited species
    for that environment.
    • Habitat is the best-suited condition for a species and provides ideal
    conditions for a species to grow, adapt, reproduce and flourish.
    • It is the energy or nutrient providing area for an organism. Habitat of a
    species describes the totality of abiotic factors to which the species
    is exposed in the area.
    • Examples of habitat include desert, ponds, freshwater lake, ocean,
    mountains, grassland, forest, etc.
    Niche: is defined as a functional role
    played by an organism in its ecosystem.
    • described a niche as the distributional unit specific to each
    species. He emphasised that no two species living in the same
    territory can occupy the same ecological niche for long.
    • The ecological niche not only involves the physical space
    occupied by an organism, but it also describes the functional role
    or place of a species in its community structure. This includes
    everything related to how it influences a community, i.e. what it
    eats, where it lives, what it does, the trophic position occupied,
    etc. Niche describes how a species contributes to the energy flow
    of the system, how it gains energy and supplies it further in an
    ecosystem.
    Difference between Habitat and Niche
    Habitat Niche
    A habitat is a particular place where organisms live, i.e. A niche defines a particular role played by organisms in
    address an ecosystem, i.e. profession

    Habitat is not species-specific, and many species can Niche is species-specific and it supports only a single
    occupy the same habitat species

    Habitat consists of several niches Niche is specific to a particular species, which may
    overlap with a similar niche but must have distinct
    differences

    Habitat is a superset of niche Niche is a subset of habitat


    Examples: desert, ocean, mountains, grassland, forest, etc. Examples: different trophic position occupied by Darwin’s
    finches

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