The Hutchinsonian niche is an "n-dimensional hypervolume", where the dimensions are environmental conditions and resources, that define the requirements of an individual or a species to practice "its" way of life, more particularly, for its population to persist.
O nicho de Hutchinson é un "hipervolume n-dimensional" no cal as dimensións indican as condicións ambientais e recursos que definen os requirimentos dos individuos ou das especies para levar o seu ritmo de vida, ou dito doutro xeito, ser quen de persistir.