Niche construction
Niche construction is a process by which an organism alters its own or another species' local environment. These alterations can be the physical conform to the organism’s environment or encompass when an organism actively moves from one habitat to another to experience a different environment. Examples of niche construction put the building of nests and burrows by animals, in addition to the defining of shade, influencing of wind speed, and alternation of nutrient cycling by plants. Although these alterations are often beneficial to the constructor, they are not always for example, when organisms dump detritus, they can degrade their own environments.