Niche
# Reference
- Source: Miscellaneous Notes/Daily Notes/2023-02-07
- Keywords: Cards/permanent notes
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# Notes
The concept of the Cards/Niche, ecologically speaking, is ==the set of all possible environmental conditions that will allow a population to sustain itself.==
- According to the Cards/Competitive Exclusion Principle, ==no two species can occupy the same niche at the same time indefinitely.== Two species can compete for the same resource for only so long; the outcompeted will have to diverge from the niche and thus potentially become a new species, or else go extinct.
- A lot of sci-fi worlds with vicious apex predators, especially intelligent ones, probably won their dominance in this way. And then there are those that expand their genetic reach in even more fearsome ways: through forceful parasitism and assimilation.