B4.2 Ecological niches

1. Ecological niche - the role of a species in an ecosystem

2. Differences between obligate anaerobes, facultative anaerobes and obligate aerobes

3. Photosynthesis in plants, algae and photosynthetic prokaryotes

4. Holozoic nutrition

5. Mixtrophic nutrition

6. Saprotrophic nutrition in some fungi and bacteria

7. Diversity of nutrition in archaea

8. R/s between dentition and diet of omnivores and herbivores in family Hominidae

9. Adaptations of herbivores to feed on plants, plants resisting herbivory

10. Adaptations of predators for finding, catching and killing prey, prey resisting predation

11. Adaptations of plant form for harvesting light

12. Fundamental and realised niches

13. Competitive exclusion and uniqueness of ecological niches