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

这种式赋予了这种鸟自己位，一种独特活式。

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

大致上讲，这些动物填补了由现代齿鲸目动物海豚和虎鲸所占据龛位。

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

但另一面，我们创造了新位和新栖息地。

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

它们借用、适应和进化，就像位中物种一样。

They spread into many ecological niches and replaced the gymnosperms.

它们扩散到许多位并 取代了裸子植物。

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

这种体型较小动物能占据了与其同时代近亲霸王龙不同位。

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

牠们之后形成不同位，在其位中牠们不用为过多竞争而担心。

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， 古物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.”

我们侵入一些栖息地，作为人类我们之前并不知道这些区位是被其他物种占据，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.

对这些鳄鱼牙齿和头骨研究表明，每个属都适应了自己位。

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，在所有这些竞争中，镰刀龙被推向了它们奇怪特征组合，以开辟自己位。

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位而展开竞争结果，这种位是人类识别甜味物既用又有营养能力所开启。

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.

一场大规模灭绝事件杀死了恐龙，也杀死了许多青蛙物种， 让各种位突然开放。

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.

这些更大尺寸使翼龙能够征服鸟类无法获得位，例如在开阔海洋上长途飞行以寻找物。

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.

由此产交响乐是一种适应交响曲，是物种进化以适应其位交响曲，每个物种在命大合奏中发挥着其独特作用。

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​​以海底碎屑为位能减少了与主动滤动物竞争。

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大型位，其他羊膜动物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，亲本物种迅速经历变化，产各种新物种，以填补多个位。

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、蛇颈龙等潜水肉动物消失了，它们位突然打开了。