Question

The term NICHE denotes not only the animal's position in the food web and what it eats but not its mode of life

Answer 1

Answer:

niche is the role played by an organism in the natural world. ... Animals and plants all have a special role in making natural communities work and stay healthy. Some animals, like the pileated woodpecker, are insect eaters. They control insect populations in a community

Answer 2

The term niche, when used in the science of ecological biology, is used to define an organism's role in an ecosystem. Not only does its niche include the environment that a given organism lives in, but it also includes the organism's "job" in that environment.

Explanation:

• The niche of an organism is the functional role that it plays within an ecosystem.
• The niche (better refined as the ‘ecological niche’) is determined by the biotic factors, which comprise of living features such as animals, plants and fungi, and abiotic factors.
• Abiotic factors are the non-living, environmental features such as sunlight and water availability and weather, as well as resources such as food and other nutrients.