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，这些动物填补了由现代齿鲸目动物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，就像生态位中的物种一样。

They spread into many ecological niches and replaced the gymnosperms.

它们扩散到许多生态位并 取代了裸子植物。

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

这种体型较小的动物可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.”

我们侵入一些栖息地，作为人类我们之前并不知道这些生态区位是被其他物种占据的，但我们却在侵犯它们。”