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	Ecological niche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In ecology, a niche is a term describing the relational position of a species or population in an ecosystem.
		The term 'Niche' was coined by the naturalist Joseph Grinnell in 1917, in his paper "The niche relationships of the California Thrasher."
		For example, the niche that was left vacant by the extinction of the tarpan has been filled by other animals (in particular a small horse breed, the konik).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ecological_niche (428 words)

	Niche
		Expanding from its primary sense as an architectural recess, a niche is a small concavity or an enclosure that is set back (e.g., indented).
		In ecology, a niche would be the position occupied by an organism (or group of organisms) within an ecosystem or the conditions making possible a habitat.
		A niche can also be a situation or an activity perfectly suited to a person.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/n/ni/niche.html (395 words)

	NICHE
		Since the start of NICHE in 1996, research income has totalled over £4 million of which approximately 20% is industry related.
		NICHE is the pre-eminent university department in the UK in the area of nutrition and health and is one of the top nutrition research units in Europe.
		In the most recent independent comparison with other universities in the UK, scientists associated with NICHE were awarded a 5* rating and were placed first amongst 68 similar departments.
	www.science.ulster.ac.uk /niche (155 words)

	NICHE- Nurses Improving Care for Health System Elders
		The mission of NICHE is to import principles and tools to stimulate a change in the culture of healthcare facilities to achieve patient-centered care for older adults.
		NICHE is unlike other programs in that it does not prescribe how institutions should modify geriatric care; rather, it provides the materials and services necessary to stimulate and support the planning and implementation process.
		The focus of NICHE is on programs and protocols that are dominantly under the control of nursing practice; in other words, areas where nursing interventions have a substantive and positive impact on patient care.
	www.hartfordign.org /programs/niche (312 words)

	Niche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There are several things called niche, a word English has borrowed from French:
		Generally, a niche is a special place within the scheme of things.
		It sometimes denotes the function or position of a thing within a structure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Niche (119 words)

	Ecological Niche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ecological niche is not a notion of quantitative population ecology despite of several attempts to define it quantitatively.
		Elton (1927) described the niche as the function performed by the species in the community of which it is a member.
		However, this kind of statements should be accepted with caution because: (1) measurement of niche volume is a subjective procedure, (2) some important dimensions of the niche may be not known, (3) niches change in the life-cycle, (4) niches change from one geographical region to another.
	www.gypsymoth.ento.vt.edu /~sharov/PopEcol/lec11/niche.html (205 words)

	Ecological Niche
		The concept of the ecological niche is an important one; it helps us to understand how organisms in an ecosystem interact with each other.
		By analogy, it may be said that the habitat is the organism's "address", and the niche is its "profession", biologically speaking.
		If the oak trees were cut down or destroyed by fire or storms they would no longer be doing their job and this would have a disastrous effect on all the other organisms living in the same habitat.
	www.purchon.com /ecology/niche.htm (425 words)

	Scratch a Niche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This niche business, which projects more than $2 million in sales this year and has four design consultants, was born in 2001 in Wiener's home.
		Niche businesses like Wiener's--which offer a product or service focusing on one specific aspect or customer base within an industry--are growing at a rate of 20 percent to 25 percent per year, according to Ira Davidson, director of the Small Business Development Center at Pace University in New York City.
		"Niche startups are good in that they offer you a chance to focus all your branding and marketing in one area and expand on those core customers as you grow your company," says Davidson.
	www.entrepreneur.com /Magazines/Copy_of_MA_SegArticle/0,4453,322373,00.html (1119 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Niche
		The convenience, propriety and beauty of the arrangement were immediately apparent, however, and thenceforward the development of the niche as an independent architectural form was constant and rapid.
		Not only did the canopied niche assimilate the statue in the architectural entity and afford it that protection from the weather so necessary in the north; it also, in conjunction with the statue itself, produced one of the richest compositions of line, light, and shade known to art.
		The medieval architects realized this and seized upon it with avidity, using it almost as their chief means for obtaining those spots and spaces of rich decoration that gave the final touch of perfection to their marvellous fabrics.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11053b.htm (280 words)

	Nature Works-Niche - Teacher's Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Asks the students to identify what adaptations the animal has that helps it fill its niche, what organisms depend on the animal, what organisms does the animal depend on to fill its niche, what factors might impact its ability to fill its niche an so forth.
		Have students interview someone about their job, asking the types of questions that were asked in the previewing activity, and write a job profile with the information they gather.
		Then have the students describe the niche of the organism to the rest of the class and see if the class can identify the organism.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/nwep14tg.htm (380 words)

	OrganicExchange.com.au: Niche
		Niche is an organism's place and role in its environment.
		So the niche is set by what the organism eats, what it competes with, where it lives, what conditions it can cope with, how it behaves and how it modifies its surroundings.
		Where pests damage plants, animals or microbes, the niche is suitable to the pests rather than to beneficial organisms.
	www.organicexchange.com.au /all/fc910071.htm (771 words)

	Finding Your Niche
		Niche marketing is defined as, "The targeting of a product or service to a small portion of your total market opportunity." The key word in initiating this type of marketing is "plan." Even a minimal amount of planning will save you a much larger amount of problems.
		The expertise necessary for your chiropractic niche could be as close as your hobby.
		Niche marketing is steadily becoming an essential component of the success of the typical chiropractic practice.
	www.chiroweb.com /archives/21/09/10.html (1269 words)

	Niche Marketing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Niching is as easy as those four steps.
		Repeat: Don't try to be a niche marketer by developing a specialty before you have researched and forecasted the potential need or desire for it.
		If you have a hunch for a new service and understand which market segment to target, then consider whether the target has growth potential and is presently large enough to generate a profit.
	www.frontpageaccess.com /fastzone/artd-11.htm (306 words)

	NICHE MARKET SOYBEANS - OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME SOYBEAN GROWERS OF ILLINOIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Niche market soybeans have specific characters (physical or chemical) that are needed by certain industries (usually food industries) to meet a specific need.
		Higher prices (premiums) paid for niche market soybeans compensate the grower for added management required in production of a niche market soybean crop, as well as any reduced yield per acre resulting from production of varieties having particular traits required.
		If production is for a niche market concerned with chemical use, then the contract would also detail what and when chemicals could be used in production of the crop.
	www.ag.uiuc.edu /~stratsoy/expert/niche95.html (2229 words)

	Competition
		Today this concept of the niche has been discarded by ecologists, even though it is still in use by the general public
		This niche concept is quantifiable and therefore particularly useful to ecologists
		Occurs as a result of competition for niche space vacated by other members of the species that have died
	www.biol.andrews.edu /ecology/Competition.html (730 words)

	Niche Retail News
		Niche Retail's 40 employees are evenly split between its financial and warehouse operations in Sylvan Lake and its sales and development operations in Minneapolis.
		Niche Retail, for example, uses NetLedger software, an online hosted ERP suite partly owned by Oracle Corp. It targets small and medium-sized businesses (with fewer than 500 users) like Niche Retail that don't need a back-office system that is as elaborate as those offered by Oracle or SAP.
		Niche Retail is an example of how some small businesses are using an increasingly rich and surprisingly low-cost set of business-technology tools to survive and compete--tools that in the past were often available only to far-larger businesses.
	www.nicheretail.com /news.htm (14431 words)

	Niche Associates: Employment
		Niche Associates is a great place to work: The atmosphere is businesslike yet casual.
		Niche promotes from within the company, to provide existing employees with opportunities to develop skills and knowledge, accept greater responsibility, and obtain greater financial and personal rewards.
		Niche Associates is a privately owned company that has been in business since 1991.
	www.niche-associates.com /employment.html (283 words)

	Books in Brief: Reaching Out: The Financial Power of Niche Marketing
		A successful niche market may be closer than you think.
		If there are other real estate professionals in your area that target your prospective niche, ask yourself whether the market is large enough to support more than one company.
		Once you determine a niche that you want to pursue, the authors recommend that you establish a strong business plan and marketing plan.
	www.realtor.org /rmomag.NSF/pages/book200311031?OpenDocument (678 words)

	From Niche to Biosphere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A niche is the role and position of a species in nature.
		For example, some experts wouldn't be happy with a niche definition not defining the extremes of heat and cold, dryness and wetness, sun and shade, and other climatic factors the particular organism tolerates.
		It's OK for average people to say "My niche in society is that of being an environmental activist," even though there's no mention of anyone eating anyone else, or of temperature extremes.
	www.backyardnature.net /econiche.htm (476 words)

	Proven Niche Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses
		Niche Marketing Article: Finding a Niche Market for Your Affiliate Focus - The key to affiliate marketing success is to focus on a niche market.
		Niche Marketing Article: How to Target Your Niche Online Markets - Targeting your niche market via search engines can be a very efficient and effective way of pinpointing your visitors with the most potential to buy your products and services.
		Niche Marketing Article: The Best Small Business to Start - Starting a new venture is challenging enough without complicating the issue by tackling a product or service you know nothing about.
	www.nichehunt.com (1344 words)

	Niche theory & cultural diversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Realized niche will almost always be a subset of ("smaller than") the fundamental niche, for various reasons; one important determinant of realized niche is presence or absence of different competitors
		Of course, 100% niche overlap is unlikely if not impossible; but such an extreme case is not necessary for competitive exclusion or other forms of niche change
		Both possible responses to niche competition (competitive exclusion, and coexistence via reduction in niche overlap) are commonly observed, and their determinants and features have been studied by three means: lab experiments, field observations, and mathematical models or simulations
	courses.washington.edu /anth457/nichelec.htm (1169 words)

	USATODAY.com - Niche marketing can drive your business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Successful niche marketing entails concentrating on a small market segment and becoming a leader in that particular area.
		First, it is more cost effective than trying to reach "everybody." A couple of years ago the owner of a small grocery store called me to help him figure out why his marketing and advertising efforts weren't paying off.
		You will find that the niche marketer will purchase other things once in the store and that they also spread the word to other potential customers.
	www.usatoday.com /money/smallbusiness/columnist/edmunds/2005-03-23-niche_x.htm (713 words)

	Introduction to the NICHE Awards
		NICHE magazine, the exclusive trade publication for retailers of American craft, honors the outstanding creative achievements of American and Canadian craft artists.
		Each year, the NICHE Awards recognize individual artists in a number of media and provide a new level of exposure for their extraordinary work.
		Artists who are selected to participate in the NICHE awards benefit from having their work seen by an appreciative audience of jurors, NICHE magazine readers, gallery owners, and fellow artists attending the February Buyers Market of American Craft in Philadelphia.
	www.americancraft.com /artist/artist_NICHE_awards/introduction_page.html (94 words)

	Nature Works - Niche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The natural world is filled with plants and animals, each with their own special job or niche.
		A niche is the role played by an organism in the natural world.
		The niches they fill help keep their habitats healthy.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/nwep14.htm (260 words)

	Niche: Media exploring the relationships between people and place
		Niche produces media that explores the relationships between people and place.
		Niche illuminates the world's undiscovered places and conservation issues.
		Niche publishes its own titles and works with outside partners to publish titles-on-request.
	www.envmedia.com /niche (79 words)

	Niche Marketing
		Niche marketing is targeting a product or service to a small portion of a market that is not being readily served by the mainstream product or service marketers.
		Market niches can be geographic areas, a specialty industry, ethnic or age groups, or any other particular group of people.
		Niche marketing is servicing a portion of a unique market, or a unique portion of a common market, not already served.
	trmep.tamu.edu /cg/factsheets/rm1-2.html (1169 words)

	Alternative Fuels Data Center: Fleet Applications and Niche Markets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Incorporating AFVs into niche markets is a good way for fleets to come out economically ahead of the game.
		The niche market approach is a strategy based on a sound and sustainable infrastructure plan, rather than one based on regional vehicle acquisitions.
		Although both are equally important, niche markets represents an important shift in the strategic mindset of alternative fuel marketing—one that is critical to long-term success.
	www.eere.energy.gov /afdc/apps/afvinfo_niche.html (232 words)

	Niche Products PowerPack3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As a niche marketer, you know how important it is to find and tap into "little" markets that either nobody knows about, or find markets that are under served with poor products (so you can swoop in and steal all the business by offering top-notch products).
		Most people "think" they know what a "niche" is and are usually WAY off target, but you seem to zone in on niches like a laser beam with pinpoint focus.
		Niche Modulator is a one time install, cgi script that enables you to generate on the fly headings, sub headings, site welcome messages, subscription form headings and more based on exactly the same search terms used by your site visitor when they found your site.
	www.nichepowerpack.com (4867 words)

	Niche Gardens Nursery Home Native Perennials Trees Grasses
		Niche Gardens is a mail order nursery located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
		Visiting Niche: Niche Gardens is located in the piedmont region of North Carolina, about eight miles west of Chapel Hill.
		We are located in the southwestern section of Orange County, an area of gently rolling land dotted with dairy farms.
	www.nichegardens.com (581 words)

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