The native environment or specific surroundings where a plant or animal naturally grows or lives The surroundings include physical factors such as temperature, moisture, and light together with biological factors such as the presence of food or predator organisms The term can be employed to define surroundings on almost any scale from marine habitat, which encompasses the oceans, to microhabitat in a hair follicle of the skin
A specific area or environment in which a particular type of plant or animal lives Components of a habitat include food, water, and shelter (back to top)
the place or type of site where an animal or plant naturally or normally lives and grows; the arrangement of food, water, shelter, and space suitable to an animal's needs
The environment in which a population or individual lives; includes not only the place where a species is found, but also the particular characteristics of the place (e g , climate or the availability of suitable food and shelter) that make it especially well suited to meet the life cycle needs of that species Habitat
The specific area or environment in which a particular plant or animal lives An organism's habitat provides all of the basic requirements for the maintenance of life For example, typical coastal habitats include beaches, marshes, rocky shores, bottom sediments, mudflats, and the water itself
The habitat of an animal or plant is the natural environment in which it normally lives or grows. In its natural habitat, the hibiscus will grow up to 25ft. the natural home of a plant or animal (from habitare; HABITATION). Place where an organism or a community of organisms lives, including all living and nonliving factors or conditions of the surrounding environment. A host organism inhabited by parasites is as much a habitat as a place on land such as a grove of trees or an aquatic locality such as a small pond. "Microhabitat" refers to the conditions and organisms in the immediate vicinity of a plant or animal
means the structural environments where an organism lives for all or part of its life, including environments once occupied (continuously, periodically or occasionally) by an organism or group of organisms, and into which organisms of that kind have the potential to be reinstated
the area in which an animal, plant, or microorganism lives and finds the nutrients, water, sunlight, shelter, living space, and other essentials it needs to survive Habitat loss, which includes the destruction, degradation, and fragmentation of habitats, is the primary cause of biodiversity loss
(1) the natural home of an animal or plant; (2) the sum of the environmental conditions that determine the existence of a community in a specific place
The place where a plant or animal species naturally lives and grows; or characteristics of the soil, water, and biologic community (other plants and animals) that make this possible