ABSTRACT
A reproductive species occupying a certain ecological niche maintains, as a material aggregate, the sum total of those individual organisms belonging to it. Ecological niches are maintained between the two processes, exploiting material resources and being exploited by others. Protobiological and biological evolution of the ecosystem can sometimes be perturbed by disturbances of exogenous and nonbiological origin, such as the impact of asteroid, oceanic turbulence, and forest fires to name a few. The natural reconstruction of ecological niches after disturbances applied externally certainly exhibits ecological adaptability. Ecological adaptability does not by any means point to the competition for the preexisting niches. Resource exploitation does not necessarily imply that individual organisms compete with each other noncooperatively in a mutually defective manner. Ecological niches and individual genotypes influence each other. The individual genotype, phenotype, and ecological niche, are mutually adaptive through the bilateral processes of becoming adapted.
