Habitat

habitat
usual or natural dwelling space
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...
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Habitat (from the Latin for "it inhabits") is the place where a particular species lives and grows. It is essentially the environment-at least the physical environment-that surrounds (influences and is utilized by) a species population.
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The term habitat has a number of unrelated meanings:
A concept in Ecology: see habitat.
A space habitat is a self-contained environment supporting some number of people in the vacuum of space in a permanent way. See space colonization.
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habitat The place where an organism normally lives or where individuals of a population live.
habitat imprinting The tendency of an animal to prefer a place to live based on early experience in that habitat.
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Habitat
Sometimes called the wine fly or vinegar fly, the Drosophila is found primarily in tropical regions.
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habitat disruption A disturbance of the physical environment in which a population lives.
hair bulb The base of a hair; contains cells that divide mitotically to produce columns of hair cells.
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habitat
[L. habitare, to live in]
The place in which individuals of a particular species can usually be found.
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habitat -- The place and conditions in which an organism lives.
halophile -- Organism which lives in areas of high salt concentration. These organisms must have special adaptations to permit them to survive under these conditions.
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Habitat manipulation: Manipulation of agricultural areas and surrounding environment with the aim of conserving or augmenting populations of natural enemies (e.g., the planting of a refuge for natural enemies).
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Habitat destruction is something that hasn't really been thought of until very recently as affecting Lyme disease risk very much, so this is work that's very much in progress as we speak. And it's a fairly complicated story.
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The habitats available in rivers and streams differ in several ways from those in lakes and ponds.
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Within-habitat comparison. A contrast of diversity between two localities of similar habitat type
Wrack zone. A bank of accumulated litter at the strandline ...
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In its original form, the theory implied that each community altered the habitat and prepared it for invasion by the next, succeeding community. Ecology: the science that studies the relationships between organisms and their environment.
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Adopts an animal habitat and cares for that habitat, making sure that each habitat is provided with necessary food, water, and care.
Librarian: Is accountable for the checking in and out of classroom library books.
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They started from the premise that whenever organisms sort themselves into the environment first and then mate locally, individuals with the same habitat preferences will necessarily mate assortatively. They established a stock population of D.
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Microbial communities exist in several distinct habitats within the Richmond mine, including biofilms (subaqueous slime streamers and subaerial slimes) and cells attached directly to pyrite granules.
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The environment of an organism includes both its habitat, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors like climate and geology, as well as the other organisms which share its habitat.
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speciation in which the evolution of reproductive isolating mechanisms occurs within the range and habitat of the parent species. This form of speciation may be common in parasites.
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An indefinite subdivision of a species usually applicable to a morphological variant or variant group, a form which is not typical but is not sufficiently recognizable to be designated by a specific name, a variant in color or in habitat.
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Polymorphism occurrence of several distinct forms of a species in the same habitat at the same time
(poly = many; morpho = form)
Polypeptide a chain of amino acids bonded together
(poly = many; pepti = digested cooked) ...
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community: a situation in which populations of organisms each contain a habitat and a niche.
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or suppression of pest problems through a combination of techniques such as encouraging biological control, use of resistant varieties, and adoption of alternate cultural practices such as modification of irrigation or pruning to make the habitat ...
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