Home Forum Dictionary Articles Tutorials Books Directory Share your work


Edit page | Page history | Printable version

Dictionary » H » Habitat

Habitat

Definition

noun, plural: habitats

(1) Place where an organism or a biological population normally lives or occurs.

(2) The location or environment where an organism (or a thing) is most likely to be found, e.g. the body part of the host of a parasite as in the scalp of the host is the habitat of a head louse.

(3) The home to a particular organism where the species will attempt to be as adaptive as possible to that particular environment.

(4) The place being occupied by an organism, population, or community.


Supplement

Word origin: from Latin, it dwells, third person sing. present of habitāre, to dwell.

Related forms: habitation (noun), habitable (adjective).
Related phrases: dispersal habitat, habitat component.


Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page



Results from our forum


Springhill Group - Asian frogs becoming extinct, biologists

... them as new species, biologists warned at an international conservation meeting in South Korea this week. The scale of the destruction – caused by habitat loss, disease, pollution and other factors – is hard to quantify, but scientists fear the result will be disastrous. Amphibians have been suffering ...

See entire post
by justinbibe88
Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:47 am
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: Springhill Group - Asian frogs becoming extinct, biologists
Replies: 0
Views: 328

Books on Zoology

The Habitat of Giant Pandas http://www.coboyu.com/List.asp?n=1922 Chinese with Latin name Li Junqing 2012 Paperback/ 26.2 x 18.8 x 2.2 cm /288 pages ISBN: 9787040205299 More books about zoology please visit http://www.coboyu.com/Pro.asp?nid=11

See entire post
by cobycoby
Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:33 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Books on Zoology
Replies: 0
Views: 548

Ecological Niche

An ecological niche is the role an organism plays in a community in terms of the habitat it occupies, e.g., both a wolf and the wolf spider are predators. So they occupy the same ecological niche, albeit in a different habitat (even though they can live together ...

See entire post
by SteveYst
Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:00 pm
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: Ecological Niche
Replies: 2
Views: 5267

evolution and endangered species

... in evolution and at the same time fight to save species that are soon to be extinct (usually because humans are hunting them/destroying their habitat etc)?

See entire post
by kajsateresa
Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:16 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: evolution and endangered species
Replies: 10
Views: 2081

A different approach to study entomology

... of insects in a specific area and contribute to scientific knowledge, but I think it even more useful observe every species in their natural habitat, and understand more about their biology, interactions, and their behaviour. For example, of the butterflies of the genus Morpho it's known ...

See entire post
by Myrmecia
Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:51 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A different approach to study entomology
Replies: 4
Views: 1783
View all matching forum results

This page was last modified 02:40, 22 July 2008. This page has been accessed 115,892 times. 
What links here | Related changes | Permanent link