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Topic: Realized Niche Width

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	Niche Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Though a niche in either Classical or Gothic context may be empty and merely provide some articulation and variety to a section of wall, the cult origins of the niche suggested that it be filled with a statue.
		In ecology, a niche is a term describing the relational position of a species or population in an ecosystem.
		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).
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/133/niche-business.html (995 words)

	PopEcol Lect 18
		The niche of several species of woodpeckers, owls, chickadees and other birds, as well as flying squirrels, might entail using tree cavities for nesting or roosting.
		Fundamental vs. realized niche -- in the absence of competitors (that absence may not actually occur in the real world) a species will tend to have a characteristic niche width.
		In the presence of competitors, however, it may be restricted to a narrower portion of its fundamental niche -- that is its realized niche.
	www.uwyo.edu /dbmcd/popecol/marlects/lect18.html (1858 words)

	The Finch Niche - Finch Information & Articles by Myra - Building an Aviary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At the time I really had no idea what size a cage should be used to house a few pairs of finches, but now I know the flights were small and that I had some very aggressive females.
		This is really a kludge but it does work very well for me..
		It doesn't really matter what you use for the second tube as long as it's big enough that the seed and droppings won't clog it up.
	www.finchniche.com /f-aviary.mgi (1053 words)

	St John's Seminary Architecture
		Rising to a height of 4-stories this imposing, this Norman Gothic Revival building is composed of a north wing measuring 19-bays in width with a depth of 5-bays and a similarly rendered four-story south wing.
		At the center of the facade gable is a niche containing a sculptural figure of St. John.
		The main facade measures 28-bays in width and is seven bays deep.
	www.bahistory.org /StJohnsArch.html (1272 words)

	The Ontology of Brands
		Brand realism is compatible with the idealist claims that it is the augmented product, through the application of names, symbols, and advertising, that turns unbranded products into brands, and that products are of interest for marketing only to the extent of being actionable.
		Many believed that the distance to the niche occupied by Pepsi, a brand which is often considered to be sweeter, had been reduced and that an overlap of the two niches had been brought about where consumers wanted these niches to be discrete.
		In population ecology, a niche is understood as an n-dimensional hypervolume of ecological space, i.e.
	ontology.buffalo.edu /brands.html (17225 words)

	Surviving in the Nike/Reebok Jungle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Width sizing is difficult and expensive to do, but it makes for the most customized athletic footwear available.
		Width sizing complicates production because it requires shorter, more flexible runs and because workers must use multiple lasts, the molds on which shoes are built.
		Width sizing is expensive, but it ensures a more customized fit, and Davis thinks well-fitting shoes will grow in importance as the population ages.
	www.inc.com /magazine/19930501/3540.html (4361 words)

	Forest Faunal Systems of Lasting Forests
		Habitat, niche, community - landscape, management area, forest - all are discussed and debated because of confusion in meaning, ignorance of or unwillingness to accept first-use definitions, unwillingness to move to common terminology and to develop alternative taxonomy as new knowledge suggests meaningful change.
		When, therefore, we speak of forested areas as the home and creative center of wildlife, we are using a figure of speech and we could more literally and truthfully say that they are the conservators and the source of wildlife about in proportion to their departure from the standards of an ideal forest.
		The reality of lands needed is blurred by whether land for fauna should be studied as if it is producing naturally or producing as it might under sophisticated management.
	fwie.fw.vt.edu /rhgiles/ForestFauna/chap7a.htm (20055 words)

	B&K AVR307 A/V Receiver reviewed on AudioRevolution.com
		The real beauty of the AVR307 is its simplicity of use, discrete circuitry and straightforward audiophile design philosophy of utilizing quality parts throughout.
		Well, if you really want to know, the soundstaging was a bit forward, with the instruments rendered well, but not pinpoint accurate, and the higher frequencies were a tad rolled off.
		I found that the OSD was really the only way I felt I could change, add or edit information with the AVR307, although the front panel controls are said to offer the same interface.
	www.avrev.com /equip/b&kavr307 (2970 words)

	Niches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		niche is the hypervolume or unimodal bump in hyperspace defining the set of conditions for that species
		If niche widths tend to be similar in similar species, then we expect resoruce utilizations (and thus beak or body sizes) to be evenly spaced
		Folks who took niche overlap too literally argued whether the universal ratio was 1.2 or 1.15 or 1.3, etc.
	bio.fiu.edu /PCB4990/September13.html (597 words)

	Carnegie Mellon University Strategic Planning Process
		Stone carving stopped on the other niches, either because the funds ran out or the original stonecarver ran off with the money (no one is sure which).
		Upon removal of the scaffolding that had been in place during the three-year period in which stone-carving on the niches was being completed, the university decided to demolish and restore the CFA plaza.
		The width of the plaza was maintained, and the paving bricks and patterns were replicated according to Hornbostel's original design.
	www.cmu.edu /splan/PlanProc/BuildingProjects/MM_CFA_Gym.html (871 words)

	kestrel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Unfortunately, the bell tower is really just part of a narrow facade which juts out from the roof of the building, and there was no easy way to get the little birds back home.
		Even with expert care, there is a danger that feather growth will be interrupted because of stress; that results in streaks across the width of the feathers that weakens them and can lessen the chance of a successful release.
		Ultimately, they must find a niche in the environment with just the right combinations of prey items and no resident falcons, which are always unwilling to share their territory.
	www.zianet.com /connealy/family/kestrel.html (715 words)

	aquaticeco.community.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Realized niche: portion of the resource actually used in presence of competitor.
		Niche Overlap : Occurs when 2 or more organisms use a portion of the same resource simultaneously.
		Niche Width: sum total of the different resources used by an organism.
	www.esu.edu /~jjewett/aquaticeco.community.htm (483 words)

	Data Properties
		This would lead to a scene width of 198 kilometers (6600 samples * 30 meters) and a scene length of 180 kilometers (6000 lines * 30 meters).
		While this calculation applies to scene length, the scene width calculation is more complicated due to the presence of image buffers and the staggered image bands in the 0R product.
		The nominal width for a scene is therefore 182.61 kilometers (6087 * 30 meters).
	ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov /IAS/handbook/handbook_htmls/chapter6/chapter6.html (2829 words)

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		Fundamental niche - that part of the environment that an individual could utilize if free of interference from others
		Realized niche - the conditions under which an individual actually lives
		Niche width (breadth/size) - the extent to which an organism can use the available environment: wide niche/generalist species, narrow niche/specialist species
	www.shsu.edu /~bio_mlt/competit.html (480 words)

	RedOrbit NEWS \| Competitive and Facilitative Evolutionary Diversification
		With the advent of genetics, biologists realized that one fundamental issue involved in the evolutionary diversification of sexual organisms is the evolution of reproductive isolation, the equivalent of speciation according to the concept of biological species (Dobzhansky 1951, Mayr 1963, Kondrashov and Mina 1986, Johnson and Gullberg 1998).
		The concept is based on the notion that the environment is made up of different ecological niches (the variety of consumable resources and other factors such as temperature and humidity) and that the availability of these niches is a primary determinant of the number of species that are expected (Lack 1944, Dobzhansky 1951).
		Together, the concepts of niche dimensionality, competitive exclusion, and limiting similarity highlighted the fact that there are countless ways in which evolutionary diversification might fill up available niche space, but that coexisting species still must somehow differ in their resource use (Tilman 1982).
	www.redorbit.com /modules/news/tools.php?tool=print&id=48436 (5628 words)

	Ch07 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The niche occupied by a species may be quantified if the environmental conditions under which the species lives and the resource base of the species are known.
		The niche of flatworm "a" is reduced in size by the presence of a competing species, flatworm "b".
		The ecological niche of a species cannot be adequately determined by a single parameter, all of a species requirements must be accounted for.
	drjoe.biology.ecu.edu /ch07/ch07.htm (4292 words)

	Science Notes 2000--In Search of Small Planets
		They realized their data might be hiding similarly large planets with short orbital periods.
		The width of the sand grain covers the field of view of Hubble.
		This big telescope is really best for peering intensely at one very small dot of sky at a time.
	scicom.ucsc.edu /SciNotes/0001/planets.htm (3198 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Real Dirt: Farmers Tell About Organic and Low-Input Practices in the Northeast (1994) comes from a Sustainable Farmers Network in that region; a description of traditional practices used historically as well as today by small farmers is found in Tapado: Slash/Mulch (1994,a similar perspective from Central America).
		The reader slowly and methodically begins to realize that not all of the logic in the author's thinking is concluded until one has put all of the ideas together like a mystery novel where the answer is revealed on the last page.
		They realized that different issues must be dealt with at different scales, and careful monitoring guidelines were set up within the involved groups.
	www.ianr.unl.edu /ianr/csas/v6ch7.htm (15658 words)

	SARE Reporting System: LS99-103: 2003 Final Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Vegetative dry matter was determined by sub-sampling from the fresh harvest (center row of the three row plots) and drying the sample at 65 C for 24 hours.
		Leaf chlorophyll was measured in SPAD units during the reproductive stage of the crops using a Minolta chlorophyll meter.
		That grower noted that the mustards grown after the birds were less green than the fertilized mustards and suggested that fertilizer was required in addition to the poultry manure.
	www.sare.org /reporting/report_viewer.asp?pn=LS99-103&ry=2003&rf=1 (2897 words)

	The Pleistocene and the Origins of Human Culture:
		In a world where the environment hardly ever really changes, but which is rather noisy, a combination of natural selection and rather conservative reliance on own experience will result in a population in which most individuals are doing the right thing.
		Darwin realized that failing to account for human behavior left a dangerous gap in his theory through which critics could and did try to attack his whole theory (Richerson and Boyd, in press).
		Contrariwise, as the real change in the environment increases from generation to generation (m increases), it is best to trust more in own experience even at the risk happening to get the wrong answer by chance.
	www.des.ucdavis.edu /FACULTY/Richerson/Speed.htm (14737 words)

	BIOL 3034
		Niche breadth Niche overlap Functional niche
		Realized niche Niche compression Ecological release
		Give a diagrammatic explanation of the Hutchinsonian niche concept in 1, 2, and 3 dimensions as well as the concepts of niche overlap, niche width, functional niche, and the realized niche.
	www.okstate.edu /artsci/botany/bisc3034/exams/exam3study.html (474 words)

	hemp
		A real strength of the report is its conservative posture.
		It might be argued that these elasticity values are not appropriate for a niche commodity that currently has a prohibitively high cost for many industrial uses and a price that is expected to fall sharply in the future.
		This niche market exists because many individual animal owners still prefer to use flax meal as a supplement in horse or other animal feeds, as they have done historically.
	www.louisville.edu /org/sun/sustain/hempstudy/hem.htm (21021 words)

	comp.windows.x.intrinsics Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
		This means that a "static" member function is really a lot like a "friend" function except that its name is within the scope of the class (in other words, the name is prefixed with the class name).
		Unfortunately it is not really practical because it means every widget set would have to define all the resources, including ones defined by the Intrinsics.
		You are connected to a really awful server that has run out of resources, and you need to give back some memory.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/Xt-FAQ (11240 words)

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		Sutton and Staw do not define their concept of theory, but when arguing what theory is not, they have to invoke an implicit concept of theory nonetheless.
		Inconsistent theories ``cannot have a model''; there is, strictly speaking, no reality to which they could correspond.
		Freeman, J. and Hannan, M.T. Niche width and the dynamics of organizational populations.
	www.umich.edu /~asq/v02n001.txt (2139 words)

	WORTHPLAYING - - All about games !
		Maybe, in some idealistic, rose-colored reality, Majesco executives realized what a beautifully unique, well-executed game it is, and felt utterly compelled to release it stateside.
		A real strategy element comes into play when picking and choosing from your library of skills, and putting them in your arsenal.
		If you're losing a battle repeatedly, your best bet is to analyze the enemy's attacks (when you're hit, the skill they used appears at the bottom of the screen), and modify your arsenal to counter or overcome the enemy's arsenal.
	www.worthplaying.com /print.php?sid=24950 (1665 words)

	Glossary of ESS Terminology
		The albedo of new snow is around 0.9; that of water is around 0.1, but is strongly dependent on the angle of the incident radiation.
		NICHE: The role of a particular species within its community.
		REALIZED NICHE: The range of conditions under which a species is found.
	www.esse.ou.edu /glossary_ess.html (11098 words)

	Versatile Europavers Find Specialty Niche in U.S.
		With bolt-on extensions, the maximum paving width of the SB 300 is over 52 feet, good for airport work; the maximum extendable width of the AB 600 is just under 30 feet.
		However, paving of that width is not done in the United States, which usually is no wider than 18 feet.
		The ideal point at which to put the energy in the mix is the point where the mix is being formed and shaped to the right width and depth, because the material is hot, fluid, and is uncompacted.
	www.betterroads.com /articles/mar05c.htm (5253 words)

	Boston.com / Cars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Further, the new E-Class wagon is an intermediate step for Mercedes as it prepares to move into the fertile new ground of "crossover" vehicles.
		Already, with much Mercedes DNA at its core, DaimlerChrysler has given us the Chrysler Pacifica, a big wagon/utility that, while pricing may have been a bit high at first, is nonetheless one of the more intriguing cars in recent years.
		Sometime in the next year, Mercedes will up the ante in what it is calling this niche of "grand sport tourers," meaning the size, heft, and utility of an SUV, with elegant, car-like amenities.
	www.boston.com /cars/reviews/2004/merc_e320.shtml (395 words)

	Ecology
		The landscape is really a mosaic of elements arranged spatially.
		The patch edge acts as a filter to reduce the negative impact of some kinds of disturbance such as noise or air born pollutants such as pesticides.
		Corridor continuity and width are the two primary determinates of how well the five corridor functions are realized.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /italy2004/ecology2.htm (1127 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Externally these may be due to changing competitors offerings and changing customer needs, whereas internally strategy is realized through interaction with cultural beliefs and political forces that cause barriers to change.
		Further work developing the implications of the concepts of competitive exclusion and niche width at the organizational level to aid strategic management could be a suggested way forward (see Baum, 1996; for thorough review).
		To achieve this companies may use the concept of positioning to identify a niche and to differentiate from competitors.
	www.geocities.com /strat_theory/prob.html (971 words)

	49 CFR Part 571 [Docket No. NHTSA-2000-8570] RIN 2127-AH09 Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Head Restraints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A harmonized regulation would contain and define either (1) a single set of performance requirements that a vehicle could be "certified" to and sold anywhere in the world or (2) common test conditions and procedures, common test devices and measurement techniques, and common test criteria limits.
		In establishing the FMVSS 208 and 214 requirements for both front and rear seats, we realized that, because of the significantly lower rear seat occupancy rates, the ratio of cost to benefit was inherently higher than similar front seating position requirements.
		If the real world data show the performance of the two standards to be equal, the agency may initiate rulemaking to add the foreign standard as an alternative means of compliance.
	www.nhtsa.dot.gov /Cars/rules/rulings/HeadRest/Index.html (19998 words)

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