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Explain the different types of niche.
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Solution
Types of niche are:
- Spatial or habitat niche: It deals with the physical space occupied by the organisms.
- Multidimensional or hypervolume niche: It considers number of environmental factors (both biotic and abiotic), the resulting space will be a hypervolume; not something that can be perceived by the human mind. This space is called the hypervolume niche. Alternatively, it is the position of an organism in the environmental gradient.
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