ecological niche

English Thesaurus

1. (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species) (noun.state)

hypernym	:	condition, status,
definition	:	a state at a particular time (noun.state)

domain category	:	bionomics, ecology, environmental science,
definition	:	the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment (noun.cognition)