This way of foraging gives this species of bird its own ecological niche, a unique way of life.

这种觅食方式赋予了这种鸟自己的生态位，一种独特的生活方式。

Roughly speaking, these animals filled the ecological niches now occupied by toothed cetaceans such as dolphins and killer whales.

大致上讲，这填补了由现代齿鲸目海豚和虎鲸所占据的生态龛位。

But the other side of that is that we've created new ecological niches and new kinds of habitats.

但另一方面，我们创造了新的生态位和新的栖息地。

They borrow, adapt, and evolve, much like species in an ecological niche.

它们借用、适应和进化，就像生态位中的种一样。

They spread into many ecological niches and replaced the gymnosperms.

它们扩散到许多生态位并 取代了裸子植。

The smaller animal would've likely filled a different ecological niche than T. rex, its contemporary cousin.

这种体型较小的能占据了与其同时代的近亲霸王龙不同的生态位。

The finches consequently sort out ecological niches. In these niches, they were safe from excessive competition.

牠们之后形成不同的生态位，在其生态位中牠们不用为过多的竞争而担心。

In the early Cretaceous Stegosaurs became more rare as their ecological niche was replaced by the armored Ankylosaurs.

在白垩纪早期，剑龙变得更加稀有，因为它们的生态位被装甲甲龙所取代。

So, paleontologists think this means that the lizards were gradually outcompeting the sphenodontians, moving into their ecological niches.

因此， 古生学家认为这意味着蜥蜴在竞争中逐渐战胜了蝶齿兽，进入了它们的生态位。

We are encroaching into habitats that previously we as humans did not really know those ecological niches were occupied by other species. But we are invading them.”

我们侵入一栖息地，作为人类我们之前并不知道这生态区位是被其他种占据的，但我们却在侵犯它们。”

Studies of the teeth and skulls of these crocs showed that each genus had adapted to its own ecological niche.

对这鳄鱼的牙齿和头骨的研究表明，每个属都适应了自己的生态位。

So, amid all of this competition, the therizinosaurs were pushed into their weird combination of features to carve out their own ecological niche.

因此，在所有这竞争中，镰刀龙被推向了它们奇怪的特征组合，以开辟自己的生态位。

This pressure was probably a consequence of competition to fill the new ecological niches opened up by an ability to recognise sweet things as both edible and nutritious.

这种压力很能是人类为了填补新的生态位而展开竞争的结果，这种生态位是人类识别甜味食既食用又有营养的能力所开启的。

There was a mass extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs, and many frog species too, that left all sorts of ecological niches suddenly open.

一场大规模的灭绝事件杀死了恐龙，也杀死了许多青蛙种， 让各种生态位突然开放。

These larger sizes allowed pterosaurs to conquer ecological niches that weren't available to birds, like flying long distances over the open ocean in search of food.

这更大的尺寸使翼龙能够征服鸟类无法获得的生态位，例如在开阔的海洋上长途飞行以寻找食。

The resulting symphony is one of adaptation, of species evolving to fit their ecological niches, each performing its unique part in the grand ensemble of life.

由此产生的交响乐是一种适应的交响曲，是种进化以适应其生态位的交响曲，每个种在生命的大合奏中发挥着其独特的作用。

And while it's impossible to know why Cantabrigiaster developed its adaptations, its ecological niche of feeding on bits from the seafloor might've reduced competition with active filter-feeders.

虽然不能知道为什么 Cantabrigiaster 会发展出适应性，但它​​以海底碎屑为食的生态位能减少了与主滤食的竞争。

During the Triassic as dinosaurs were evolving to fill large bodied ecological niches on land the other amniote groups were evolving to fill the sea and the air.

在三叠纪期间，随着恐龙进化以填充陆地上的大型生态位，其他羊膜群也在进化以填充海洋和空气。

And what adaptive radiation is is: an evolutionary process by which a parent species rapidly undergoes changes resulting in various new speciesin order to fill multiple ecological niches.

什么是适应性辐射：一个进化过程，亲本种迅速经历变化，产生各种新种，以填补多个生态位。

In the aftermath of the extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, diving predators like small mosasaurs and plesiosaurs were gone, so their ecological niches were suddenly open.

白垩纪末期大灭绝之后，小型沧龙、蛇颈龙等潜水食肉消失了，它们的生态位突然打开了。