A habitat is an ecological
or environmental area that is inhabited by a
particular species
of animal, plant, or other type
of organism.
It is the natural environment in which an organism lives, or the physical
environment that surrounds a species population.
A habitat is made up of physical factors such as soil,
moisture, range of temperature, and availability of light as well as biotic
factors such as the availability of food and the presence of predators. A
habitat is not necessarily a geographic area—for a parasitic organism it is the
body of its host or even a cell within tMicrohabitat
A microhabitat is the small-scale physical requirements of a
particular organism or population.
Monotypic habitat
The monotypic habitat occurs in botanical and zoological
contexts, and is a component of conservation biology. In restoration ecology of native plant communities
or habitats, some invasive species create monotypic stands that
replace and/or prevent other species, especially indigenous ones, from growing
there. A dominant colonization can occur from retardant chemicals exuded,
nutrient monopolization, or from lack of natural controls such as herbivores or
climate, that keep them in balance with their native habitats. The yellow starthistle, Centaurea solstitialis,
is a botanical monotypic-habitat example of this, currently dominating over
15,000,000 acres (61,000 km2) in California alone. The
non-native freshwater zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, that
colonizes areas of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi
River watershed, without its home-range predator
control, is a zoological monotypic-habitat example. Even though its name may
seem to imply simplicity as compared with polytypic
habitats, the monotypic habitat can be complex.
he host's body.
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