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态位，一种独活方式。

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，我们创造了新态位和新栖息地。

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

它们借用、适应和进化，就像态位中物种一样。

They spread into many ecological niches and replaced the gymnosperms.

它们扩散到许多态位并 取代了裸子植物。

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

因此， 古物学家认为这意着蜥蜴在竞争中逐渐战胜了蝶齿兽，进入了它们态位。

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

牠们之后形成不同态位，在其态位中牠们不用为过多竞争而担心。

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

这种体型较小动物可能占据了与其同时代近亲霸王龙不同态位。

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

在白垩纪早期，剑龙变得更有，因为它们态位被装甲甲龙所取代。

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态区位是被其他物种占据，但我们却在侵犯它们。”

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征组合，以开辟自己态位。

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.

这种压力很可能是人类为了填补新态位而展开竞争结果，这种态位是人类识别甜食物既可食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， 让各种态位突然开放。

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态位交响曲，每个物种在命大合奏中发挥着其独作用。

And then they went on to fill the empty ecological niches that were once filled by Triassic animals, setting off a whole new round of adaptive radiation.

然后他们继续填补曾经被三叠纪动物填补空态位，引发了全新一轮适应性辐射。

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态位，例如在开阔海洋上长途飞行以寻找食物。

And for the survivors of the Great Dying, this was a completely different world -- one with a whole host of ecological niches that needed to be filled.

对于大死亡幸存者来说，这是一个完全不同世界——一个有一大堆态位需要填补世界。

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、蛇颈龙等潜水食肉动物消失了，它们态位突然打开了。

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.

虽然不可能知道为什么 Cantabrigiaster 会发展出适应性，但它​​以海底碎屑为食态位可能减少了与主动滤食动物竞争。