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Ecosystem processes, such as primary production, pedogenesis, nutrient cycling, and various niche construction activities, regulate the flux of energy and matter through an environment.
The process and concept of ecosystem engineering has also been called niche construction.
The term " niche construction " is more often used in reference to the under-appreciated feedback mechanism of natural selection imparting forces on the abiotic niche.
For example, ecological inheritance through the process of niche construction is defined by the regular and repeated activities of organisms in their environment.
K. N. Laland and colleagues have recently suggested that human culture can be looked upon as an ecological niche like phenomena, where the effects of cultural niche construction are transmissible from one generation to the next.
These included leaving the larger Western niche empty as a monument to the destruction of the Buddhas, a feasibility study into the rebuilding of the Eastern Buddha, and the construction of a central museum and several smaller site museums.
Hence proto-humans indubitably engaged in, and continue to engage in, what is called niche construction, creating cultural niches that provide understandings key to survival, and undergoing evolutionary changes that optimize their ability to flourish in such niches.
Bickerton ( 2009 ) places the first emergence of such a proto-language with the earliest appearance of Homo, and associates its appearance with the pressure of behavioral adaptation to the niche construction of scavenging faced by Homo habilis.
Several biologists have argued that niche construction is as important to evolution as natural selection ( i. e., not only does an environment cause changes in species through selection, but species also cause changes in their environment through niche construction ).
The effect of niche construction is especially pronounced in situations where environmental alterations persist for several generations, introducing the evolutionary role of ecological inheritance.
Deforestation, effects on soil structure, root structure, turbidity of water, allocation of water and the supply of water downstream are just a handful of exemplars defining beaver niche construction.
Beavers express a clear example of the diverse effects perpetuated by the construction of a niche.
The evolutionary exchange ( made between both niche construction and natural selection ) allows the fire-resistant pine and chaparral to exploit the chemical change that occurs in soil after organic matter has been burned.
The speed at which humans are able to construct niches modifies the selection pressures and either genetic evolution or further niche construction can result.
An example of genetic evolution through niche construction with the inclusion of an abiotic factor: Yam cultivators in West Africa cut clearings in forests to grow crops, but resulted in much standing water which attracted mosquitoes and increased the rate of malaria.
Example of further niche construction: Humans change the environment through pollution.
Humans are able to sustain adaptiveness by responding to ancestral niche construction through further cultural niche construction.

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Bickerton argues that niche construction by early man allowed this breakthrough from an ACS into language.

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He has since found a niche as an occasional contributor to Golf Digest and Time magazine, for which he writes back-page essays.

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At the time, Sculley summed up his concerns with Apple's own ability to ship Pink when he stated " We want to be a major player in the computer industry, not a niche player.

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However, by this time other machines in DEC's lineup could fill the same niche at even lower price points, and the PDP-15 would be the last of the 18-bit series.
These Korean and Malaysian-manufactured vehicles offered modern, Japanese developed technology and levels of build quality and standard equipment which Lada could not compete with, and by the turn of the millennium, had completely taken over the market niche that Lada had survived in for over 20 years.
The mainstream academic view has been that pankration was the product of the development of archaic Greek society of the seventh century BC, whereby, as the need for expression in violent sport increased, pankration filled a niche of " total contest " that neither boxing or wrestling could.
This allowed plants to fill more of their stems with structural fibres, and also opened a new niche to vines, which could transport water without being as thick as the tree they grew on.
The terrestrial niche was also a much more challenging place for primary aquatic animals, but because of the way evolution and the selection pressure works, those juveniles who could take advantage of this would be rewarded.
" Asha once said that she has worked for years to create a voice and a style that was different from Lata, so that she could carve her own niche and not be banished to live in her sister's shadow.
This could have held back uptake of what would be seen as a very niche device with no ( then ) obvious appeal.
However, since Ford basically defined the " personal luxury " niche, they believed they could also reshape it.
Several months later, in May 1993, Elson decided that the CircleMUD codebase could be used to fill a niche in the MUD community.
A multinational European team suggests that if liquid water is present in the spiders ' channels during their annual defrost cycle, they might provide a niche where certain microscopic life forms could have retreated and adapted while sheltered from solar radiation.
" Development communication policy could very find an invaluable niche in the social teachings of the Catholic Church.
Despite the superiority of the technology in comparison to typical SuperVGA cards of the era, the relatively high cost and emerging local bus graphics standards meant that IT distributors and PC manufacturers could not see a niche for these products at consumer level.
The high density of Samsung's prototype PRAM device suggested it could be a viable Flash competitor, and not limited to niche roles as other devices have been.
It is speculated that when General Motors decided to try to produce the Solstice as a highly-styled, low-cost, low-volume niche vehicle for enthusiasts, it became apparent that there were no existing platforms that could be used to achieve the needs of a modern compact rear wheel drive roadster.
Merlin passionately believed that a dedicated specialist train operator in this niche market could provide a high quality total service for all potential clients requiring individually planned trains.
In 1987, he went to work for the newly-privatized channel TF1: his first show, Panique sur le 16, was not a success, but he soon found his niche with the late-night weekly talk-show Ciel mon mardi !, a program which could be compared to Jerry Springer productions in United States.
The niche width of an organism refers to a theoretical range of conditions that a species could inhabit and successfully survive and reproduce with no competition.
Although interactive movies had a filmic quality that sprite-based games could not duplicate at the time, they were a niche market — the lack of direct interactivity put off many gamers.
Eventually Metromedia decided it could make more money by adopting the simpler, less-competitive country music niche that was working for sister station KLAC in Los Angeles.
At the time of the 203's demise, this stripped down version of the Peugeot 403 was presented as the replacement for thwe 203, though it could be argued that the spacious front-wheel-drive 1300 cc Peugeot 304, which appeared only in 1969, or indeed the consecutively named Peugeot 204 more directly occupied the market niche which in the early 1950s the 203 had made its own.
Superseded by the all-in-one NorthStar Advantage in 1983, the NorthStar Horizon found a niche in University environments where its inbuilt S-100 bus could be used to interface it to a variety of control systems.
The shrine portrays a smaller version of the offering cult and in many ways can be seen as an expansion from the false door of the Old Kingdom, where a statue inside a niche could have been integrated.
In about a week, the Palace filled to absolute capacity with people commandeering any and every niche they could find to work in.
Canon Trotman further presumed that the figure of the Virgin may have been taken from its niche in the porch by the Parliamentary troops, but adds forcefully, " Even they could scarcely have done more havoc with the church than the hand of the so-called restorer in 1860 who, while substituting the pitch pine seats ... for the old carefully locked pews and capacious gallery, effaced at the same time much that should have been interesting to us today.

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