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One of the traditional, normative objectives of philosophy of science is conceptual clarification. After the (post-Kuhnian) descriptive turn in science studies, this is still an important task of philosophy. It is particularly important with respect to controversies in science, especially to those involving conceptual rather than factual issues. The present paper is a case in point. It aims to clarify two of the most important, yet controversial, concepts (or conceptual theories) in ecology, viz. ‘habitat’ (theory) and ‘niche’ (theory). Conceptual analysis of the ecological literature reveals that the major source of controversy is the confusion of several different concepts of habitat and niche, such that the distinction between the two is blurred. To remove this confusion, the paper sorts out these various concepts and suggests a clear assignment of terms, in line with some basic, relatively uncontroversial, ecological ideas.
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