Each species has a particular niche within a community. This niche is defined by which two sets of factors?   a. Net primary productivity and physical environment   b. Functional role and net primary productivity   c. Net primary productivity and biological environment   d. Physical environment and functional role

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Communities and Ecosystems

Ecology contains two words: Eikos means dwelling, and logy means to study, so the combined meaning is studying habitat or living.