The major differences between the ecological niches of humans and cockroaches depend on the functional role they play, the space they live, and the group (trophic level) they belong.
What is an Ecological niche?
An ecological niche can be regarded as an area or set of environmental factors or the surroundings of an individual where they perform their functional role.
Humans being omnivores have a generalized niche where they particularly have many options to play a functional role (feeding habit).
Cockroaches play the role of decomposers which is also an important part of any ecosystem. Living organisms are interdependent, so they need each other in order to survive. Therefore, it is wrong to say that humans and cockroaches are in competition. Cockroaches unlike humans live in really dirty and dark places because in such conditions they easily find food. While humans take a rest in dark (night) and search for their food in the daytime.
Humans take fresh and cooked food, while cockroaches shred dead and decaying organic matter into smaller pieces so that it would be eaten by recycling bacteria.
Therefore, these two different species are not in direct competition and survive without affecting each other's ecological niche.
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