Quizzes
habitat
ecology
- Key People:
- Charles Elton
- Related Topics:
- habitat loss
- open habitat
- biomass
- carrying capacity
- endemism
habitat, 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 terrestrial place such as a grove of trees or an aquatic locality such as a small pond. Microhabitat is a term for the conditions and organisms in the immediate vicinity of a plant or animal.