Faster access than browser!
179 relations: Aerobiology, Algae, Altitudinal zonation, Ammonia, Anaerobic organism, Annual plant, Anostraca, Aquatic plant, Archaea, Atmosphere, Backwater (river), Bacteria, Basidiomycota, Bat, Bayou, Benthic zone, Biennial plant, Biological life cycle, Bioluminescence, Biome, Biosphere, Biotic index, Biotope, Brackish water, Brassica, Bromus tectorum, Carbon cycle, Cell (biology), Centaurea solstitialis, Chemosynthesis, Chicago, Climate, Cloud, Cold seep, Colonisation (biology), Columbidae, Conservation biology, Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, Couch's spadefoot toad, Coyote, Crustacean, Cyanobacteria, Deforestation, Delichon, Demersal zone, Desert, Desiccation, Detritivore, Diapause, Drainage basin, ..., Earthquake, Ecological niche, Ecology, Ecotourism, Endemism, Epiphyte, Estuary, Extinction, Food, Food chain, Forest, Fox, Fresh water, Gastropoda, Geomorphology, Glacier, Grassland, Great Lakes, Habitat conservation, Habitat destruction, Habitat fragmentation, Halotolerance, Helaeomyia petrolei, Herbivore, Host (biology), Hot spring, Hydrilla, Hydrogen sulfide, Hydrothermal vent, Ice sheet, Intertidal zone, Introduced species, Invasive species, Invertebrate, Kelp forest, Killifish, Lake, Lake Whillans, Latin, Lichen, Light, List of life zones by region, Local extinction, Magma, Mariana Trench, Marine habitats, Marine snow, Marsh, Merriam-Webster, Mesophile, Metamorphosis, Methane, Microbial mat, Microfauna, Microorganism, Microphallus turgidus, Mississippi River, Moisture, Mollusca, Moss, Mouse, Mudflat, Mussel, Myrmica, Natural environment, Nitrogen cycle, Organism, Palaemonetes pugio, Parasitism, Pelagic zone, Peregrine falcon, Photic zone, Pieris rapae, Pioneer species, Plankton, Polar regions of Earth, Pollen, Polychaete, Pond, Population ecology, Precipitation, Predation, Raccoon, Rat, Reef, Restoration ecology, River, Salt pan (geology), San Quintin kangaroo rat, Scuba diving, Sea urchin, Seagrass, Seaweed, Seed, Shoal, Skunk, Soil, Solar irradiance, Sparrow, Species, Spore, Squirrel, Steppe, Stream, Subsidence, Substrate (biology), Subtropics, Swallow, Symbiosis, Tar pit, Tectonic uplift, Temperate climate, Temperature, The New York Times, Thelebolus, Thymus (plant), Tide pool, Tropics, Tsunami, University of California, Davis, Urchin barren, Vegetation type, Vernal pool, Volcano, Wallemia ichthyophaga, Wildfire, Wildflower, Wildlife corridor, Zebra mussel. Expand index (129 more) »
Aerobiology
Aerobiology (from Greek ἀήρ, aēr, "air"; βίος, bios, "life"; and -λογία, -logia) is a branch of biology that studies organic particles, such as bacteria, fungal spores, very small insects, pollen grains and viruses, which are passively transported by the air.
New!!: Habitat and Aerobiology · See more »
Algae
Algae (singular alga) is an informal term for a large, diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are not necessarily closely related, and is thus polyphyletic.
New!!: Habitat and Algae · See more »
Altitudinal zonation
Altitudinal zonation in mountainous regions describes the natural layering of ecosystems that occurs at distinct altitudes due to varying environmental conditions.
New!!: Habitat and Altitudinal zonation · See more »
Ammonia
Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3.
New!!: Habitat and Ammonia · See more »
Anaerobic organism
An anaerobic organism or anaerobe is any organism that does not require oxygen for growth.
New!!: Habitat and Anaerobic organism · See more »
Annual plant
An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one year, and then dies.
New!!: Habitat and Annual plant · See more »
Anostraca
Anostraca is one of the four orders of crustaceans in the class Branchiopoda; its members are also known as fairy shrimp.
New!!: Habitat and Anostraca · See more »
Aquatic plant
Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments (saltwater or freshwater).
New!!: Habitat and Aquatic plant · See more »
Archaea
Archaea (or or) constitute a domain of single-celled microorganisms.
New!!: Habitat and Archaea · See more »
Atmosphere
An atmosphere is a layer or a set of layers of gases surrounding a planet or other material body, that is held in place by the gravity of that body.
New!!: Habitat and Atmosphere · See more »
Backwater (river)
A backwater is a part of a river in which there is little or no current.
New!!: Habitat and Backwater (river) · See more »
Bacteria
Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.
New!!: Habitat and Bacteria · See more »
Basidiomycota
Basidiomycota is one of two large divisions that, together with the Ascomycota, constitute the subkingdom Dikarya (often referred to as the "higher fungi") within the kingdom Fungi.
New!!: Habitat and Basidiomycota · See more »
Bat
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera; with their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight.
New!!: Habitat and Bat · See more »
Bayou
In usage in the United States, a bayou (or, from Cajun French) is a body of water typically found in a flat, low-lying area, and can be either an extremely slow-moving stream or river (often with a poorly defined shoreline), or a marshy lake or wetland.
New!!: Habitat and Bayou · See more »
Benthic zone
The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean or a lake, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers.
New!!: Habitat and Benthic zone · See more »
Biennial plant
A biennial plant is a flowering plant that takes two years to complete its biological lifecycle.
New!!: Habitat and Biennial plant · See more »
Biological life cycle
In biology, a biological life cycle (or just life cycle when the biological context is clear) is a series of changes in form that an organism undergoes, returning to the starting state.
New!!: Habitat and Biological life cycle · See more »
Bioluminescence
Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by a living organism.
New!!: Habitat and Bioluminescence · See more »
Biome
A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in.
New!!: Habitat and Biome · See more »
Biosphere
The biosphere (from Greek βίος bíos "life" and σφαῖρα sphaira "sphere") also known as the ecosphere (from Greek οἶκος oîkos "environment" and σφαῖρα), is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.
New!!: Habitat and Biosphere · See more »
Biotic index
Biotic Index (also called "Family Biotic Index") is a scale for showing the quality of an environment by indicating the types of organisms present in it.
New!!: Habitat and Biotic index · See more »
Biotope
A biotope is an area of uniform environmental conditions providing a living place for a specific assemblage of plants and animals.
New!!: Habitat and Biotope · See more »
Brackish water
Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater.
New!!: Habitat and Brackish water · See more »
Brassica
Brassica is a genus of plants in the mustard family (Brassicaceae).
New!!: Habitat and Brassica · See more »
Bromus tectorum
Bromus tectorum, known as drooping brome or cheatgrass, is a winter annual grass native to Europe, southwestern Asia, and northern Africa, but has become invasive in many other areas.
New!!: Habitat and Bromus tectorum · See more »
Carbon cycle
The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth.
New!!: Habitat and Carbon cycle · See more »
Cell (biology)
The cell (from Latin cella, meaning "small room") is the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all known living organisms.
New!!: Habitat and Cell (biology) · See more »
Centaurea solstitialis
Centaurea solstitialis, yellow star-thistle, is a member of the family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean Basin region.
New!!: Habitat and Centaurea solstitialis · See more »
Chemosynthesis
In biochemistry, chemosynthesis is the biological conversion of one or more carbon-containing molecules (usually carbon dioxide or methane) and nutrients into organic matter using the oxidation of inorganic compounds (e.g., hydrogen gas, hydrogen sulfide) or methane as a source of energy, rather than sunlight, as in photosynthesis.
New!!: Habitat and Chemosynthesis · See more »
Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
New!!: Habitat and Chicago · See more »
Climate
Climate is the statistics of weather over long periods of time.
New!!: Habitat and Climate · See more »
Cloud
In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of minute liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body.
New!!: Habitat and Cloud · See more »
Cold seep
A cold seep (sometimes called a cold vent) is an area of the ocean floor where hydrogen sulfide, methane and other hydrocarbon-rich fluid seepage occurs, often in the form of a brine pool.
New!!: Habitat and Cold seep · See more »
Colonisation (biology)
Colonisation or colonization is the process in biology by which a species spreads to new areas.
New!!: Habitat and Colonisation (biology) · See more »
Columbidae
Pigeons and doves constitute the animal family Columbidae and the order Columbiformes, which includes about 42 genera and 310 species.
New!!: Habitat and Columbidae · See more »
Conservation biology
Conservation biology is the management of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions.
New!!: Habitat and Conservation biology · See more »
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals -- more commonly abbreviated to just the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) or the Bonn Convention and CMS COP is known as Global Wildlife conference—aims to conserve terrestrial, marine and avian migratory species throughout their range.
New!!: Habitat and Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals · See more »
Couch's spadefoot toad
Couch's spadefoot toad or Couch's spadefoot (Scaphiopus couchii) is a species of North American spadefoot toad (family Scaphiopodidae).
New!!: Habitat and Couch's spadefoot toad · See more »
Coyote
The coyote (Canis latrans); from Nahuatl) is a canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the gray wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf. It fills much of the same ecological niche as the golden jackal does in Eurasia, though it is larger and more predatory, and is sometimes called the American jackal by zoologists. The coyote is listed as least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature due to its wide distribution and abundance throughout North America, southwards through Mexico, and into Central America. The species is versatile, able to adapt to and expand into environments modified by humans. It is enlarging its range, with coyotes moving into urban areas in the Eastern U.S., and was sighted in eastern Panama (across the Panama Canal from their home range) for the first time in 2013., 19 coyote subspecies are recognized. The average male weighs and the average female. Their fur color is predominantly light gray and red or fulvous interspersed with black and white, though it varies somewhat with geography. It is highly flexible in social organization, living either in a family unit or in loosely knit packs of unrelated individuals. It has a varied diet consisting primarily of animal meat, including deer, rabbits, hares, rodents, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates, though it may also eat fruits and vegetables on occasion. Its characteristic vocalization is a howl made by solitary individuals. Humans are the coyote's greatest threat, followed by cougars and gray wolves. In spite of this, coyotes sometimes mate with gray, eastern, or red wolves, producing "coywolf" hybrids. In the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, the eastern coyote (a larger subspecies, though still smaller than wolves) is the result of various historical and recent matings with various types of wolves. Genetic studies show that most North American wolves contain some level of coyote DNA. The coyote is a prominent character in Native American folklore, mainly in the Southwestern United States and Mexico, usually depicted as a trickster that alternately assumes the form of an actual coyote or a man. As with other trickster figures, the coyote uses deception and humor to rebel against social conventions. The animal was especially respected in Mesoamerican cosmology as a symbol of military might. After the European colonization of the Americas, it was reviled in Anglo-American culture as a cowardly and untrustworthy animal. Unlike wolves (gray, eastern, or red), which have undergone an improvement of their public image, attitudes towards the coyote remain largely negative.
New!!: Habitat and Coyote · See more »
Crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles.
New!!: Habitat and Crustacean · See more »
Cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria, also known as Cyanophyta, are a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis, and are the only photosynthetic prokaryotes able to produce oxygen.
New!!: Habitat and Cyanobacteria · See more »
Deforestation
Deforestation, clearance, or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.
New!!: Habitat and Deforestation · See more »
Delichon
Delichon is a small genus of passerine birds that belongs to the swallow family and contains three species named as house martins.
New!!: Habitat and Delichon · See more »
Demersal zone
The demersal zone is the part of the sea or ocean (or deep lake) consisting of the part of the water column near to (and significantly affected by) the seabed and the benthos.
New!!: Habitat and Demersal zone · See more »
Desert
A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.
New!!: Habitat and Desert · See more »
Desiccation
Desiccation is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying.
New!!: Habitat and Desiccation · See more »
Detritivore
Detritivores, also known as detrivores, detritophages, detritus feeders, or detritus eaters, are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus (decomposing plant and animal parts as well as feces).
New!!: Habitat and Detritivore · See more »
Diapause
Diapause, when referencing animal dormancy, is the delay in development in response to regularly and recurring periods of adverse environmental conditions.
New!!: Habitat and Diapause · See more »
Drainage basin
A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.
New!!: Habitat and Drainage basin · See more »
Earthquake
An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
New!!: Habitat and Earthquake · See more »
Ecological niche
In ecology, a niche (CanE, or) is the fit of a species living under specific environmental conditions.
New!!: Habitat and Ecological niche · See more »
Ecology
Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.
New!!: Habitat and Ecology · See more »
Ecotourism
Ecotourism is a form of tourism involving visiting fragile, pristine, and relatively undisturbed natural areas, intended as a low-impact and often small scale alternative to standard commercial mass tourism.
New!!: Habitat and Ecotourism · See more »
Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
New!!: Habitat and Endemism · See more »
Epiphyte
An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.
New!!: Habitat and Epiphyte · See more »
Estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
New!!: Habitat and Estuary · See more »
Extinction
In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
New!!: Habitat and Extinction · See more »
Food
Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism.
New!!: Habitat and Food · See more »
Food chain
A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms (such as grass or trees which use radiation from the Sun to make their food) and ending at apex predator species (like grizzly bears or killer whales), detritivores (like earthworms or woodlice), or decomposer species (such as fungi or bacteria).
New!!: Habitat and Food chain · See more »
Forest
A forest is a large area dominated by trees.
New!!: Habitat and Forest · See more »
Fox
Foxes are small-to-medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae.
New!!: Habitat and Fox · See more »
Fresh water
Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.
New!!: Habitat and Fresh water · See more »
Gastropoda
The gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca, called Gastropoda.
New!!: Habitat and Gastropoda · See more »
Geomorphology
Geomorphology (from Ancient Greek: γῆ, gê, "earth"; μορφή, morphḗ, "form"; and λόγος, lógos, "study") is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features created by physical, chemical or biological processes operating at or near the Earth's surface.
New!!: Habitat and Geomorphology · See more »
Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.
New!!: Habitat and Glacier · See more »
Grassland
Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae); however, sedge (Cyperaceae) and rush (Juncaceae) families can also be found along with variable proportions of legumes, like clover, and other herbs.
New!!: Habitat and Grassland · See more »
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (les Grands-Lacs), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River.
New!!: Habitat and Great Lakes · See more »
Habitat conservation
Habitat conservation is a management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore habitat areas for wild plants and animals, especially conservation reliant species, and prevent their extinction, fragmentation or reduction in range.
New!!: Habitat and Habitat conservation · See more »
Habitat destruction
Habitat destruction is the process in which natural habitat is rendered unable to support the species present.
New!!: Habitat and Habitat destruction · See more »
Habitat fragmentation
Habitat fragmentation describes the emergence of discontinuities (fragmentation) in an organism's preferred environment (habitat), causing population fragmentation and ecosystem decay.
New!!: Habitat and Habitat fragmentation · See more »
Halotolerance
Halotolerance is the adaptation of living organisms to conditions of high salinity.
New!!: Habitat and Halotolerance · See more »
Helaeomyia petrolei
The petroleum fly, Helaeomyia petrolei, is a species of fly from California, USA.
New!!: Habitat and Helaeomyia petrolei · See more »
Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.
New!!: Habitat and Herbivore · See more »
Host (biology)
In biology and medicine, a host is an organism that harbours a parasitic, a mutualistic, or a commensalist guest (symbiont), the guest typically being provided with nourishment and shelter.
New!!: Habitat and Host (biology) · See more »
Hot spring
A hot spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater that rises from the Earth's crust.
New!!: Habitat and Hot spring · See more »
Hydrilla
Hydrilla (Waterthyme or hydrilla) is a genus of aquatic plant, usually treated as containing just one species, Hydrilla verticillata, though some botanists divide it into several species.
New!!: Habitat and Hydrilla · See more »
Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide is the chemical compound with the chemical formula H2S.
New!!: Habitat and Hydrogen sulfide · See more »
Hydrothermal vent
A hydrothermal vent is a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water issues.
New!!: Habitat and Hydrothermal vent · See more »
Ice sheet
An ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than, this is also known as continental glacier.
New!!: Habitat and Ice sheet · See more »
Intertidal zone
The intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore and seashore and sometimes referred to as the littoral zone, is the area that is above water at low tide and under water at high tide (in other words, the area between tide marks).
New!!: Habitat and Intertidal zone · See more »
Introduced species
An introduced species (alien species, exotic species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species) is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental.
New!!: Habitat and Introduced species · See more »
Invasive species
An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.
New!!: Habitat and Invasive species · See more »
Invertebrate
Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.
New!!: Habitat and Invertebrate · See more »
Kelp forest
Kelp forests are underwater areas with a high density of kelp.
New!!: Habitat and Kelp forest · See more »
Killifish
A killifish is any of various oviparous (egg-laying) cyprinodontiform fish (including families Aplocheilidae, Cyprinodontidae, Fundulidae, Profundulidae and Valenciidae).
New!!: Habitat and Killifish · See more »
Lake
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake.
New!!: Habitat and Lake · See more »
Lake Whillans
Lake Whillans is a subglacial lake in Antarctica.
New!!: Habitat and Lake Whillans · See more »
Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
New!!: Habitat and Latin · See more »
Lichen
A lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi in a symbiotic relationship.
New!!: Habitat and Lichen · See more »
Light
Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
New!!: Habitat and Light · See more »
List of life zones by region
The climate and ecology of different locations on the globe naturally separate into life zones, depending on elevation, location, and latitude.
New!!: Habitat and List of life zones by region · See more »
Local extinction
Local extinction or extirpation is the condition of a species (or other taxon) that ceases to exist in the chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.
New!!: Habitat and Local extinction · See more »
Magma
Magma (from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma) meaning "thick unguent") is a mixture of molten or semi-molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and is expected to exist on other terrestrial planets and some natural satellites.
New!!: Habitat and Magma · See more »
Mariana Trench
The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans.
New!!: Habitat and Mariana Trench · See more »
Marine habitats
The marine environment supplies many kinds of habitats that support marine life.
New!!: Habitat and Marine habitats · See more »
Marine snow
In the deep ocean, marine snow is a continuous shower of mostly organic detritus falling from the upper layers of the water column.
New!!: Habitat and Marine snow · See more »
Marsh
A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.
New!!: Habitat and Marsh · See more »
Merriam-Webster
Merriam–Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books which is especially known for its dictionaries.
New!!: Habitat and Merriam-Webster · See more »
Mesophile
A mesophile is an organism that grows best in moderate temperature, neither too hot nor too cold, typically between.
New!!: Habitat and Mesophile · See more »
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation.
New!!: Habitat and Metamorphosis · See more »
Methane
Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen).
New!!: Habitat and Methane · See more »
Microbial mat
A microbial mat is a multi-layered sheet of microorganisms, mainly bacteria and archaea.
New!!: Habitat and Microbial mat · See more »
Microfauna
Microfauna (Ancient Greek mikros "small" + New Latin fauna "animal") refers to microscopic organisms that exhibit animal-like qualities.
New!!: Habitat and Microfauna · See more »
Microorganism
A microorganism, or microbe, is a microscopic organism, which may exist in its single-celled form or in a colony of cells. The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from 6th century BC India and the 1st century BC book On Agriculture by Marcus Terentius Varro. Microbiology, the scientific study of microorganisms, began with their observation under the microscope in the 1670s by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. In the 1850s, Louis Pasteur found that microorganisms caused food spoilage, debunking the theory of spontaneous generation. In the 1880s Robert Koch discovered that microorganisms caused the diseases tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax. Microorganisms include all unicellular organisms and so are extremely diverse. Of the three domains of life identified by Carl Woese, all of the Archaea and Bacteria are microorganisms. These were previously grouped together in the two domain system as Prokaryotes, the other being the eukaryotes. The third domain Eukaryota includes all multicellular organisms and many unicellular protists and protozoans. Some protists are related to animals and some to green plants. Many of the multicellular organisms are microscopic, namely micro-animals, some fungi and some algae, but these are not discussed here. They live in almost every habitat from the poles to the equator, deserts, geysers, rocks and the deep sea. Some are adapted to extremes such as very hot or very cold conditions, others to high pressure and a few such as Deinococcus radiodurans to high radiation environments. Microorganisms also make up the microbiota found in and on all multicellular organisms. A December 2017 report stated that 3.45 billion year old Australian rocks once contained microorganisms, the earliest direct evidence of life on Earth. Microbes are important in human culture and health in many ways, serving to ferment foods, treat sewage, produce fuel, enzymes and other bioactive compounds. They are essential tools in biology as model organisms and have been put to use in biological warfare and bioterrorism. They are a vital component of fertile soils. In the human body microorganisms make up the human microbiota including the essential gut flora. They are the pathogens responsible for many infectious diseases and as such are the target of hygiene measures.
New!!: Habitat and Microorganism · See more »
Microphallus turgidus
Microphallus turgidus is a widespread and locally common undescribed flatworm parasite in New Zealand lakes and streams.
New!!: Habitat and Microphallus turgidus · See more »
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.
New!!: Habitat and Mississippi River · See more »
Moisture
Moisture is the presence of a liquid, especially water, often in trace amounts.
New!!: Habitat and Moisture · See more »
Mollusca
Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.
New!!: Habitat and Mollusca · See more »
Moss
Mosses are small flowerless plants that typically grow in dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady locations.
New!!: Habitat and Moss · See more »
Mouse
A mouse (Mus), plural mice, is a small rodent characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail and a high breeding rate.
New!!: Habitat and Mouse · See more »
Mudflat
Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats, are coastal wetlands that form when mud is deposited by tides or rivers.
New!!: Habitat and Mudflat · See more »
Mussel
Mussel is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and freshwater habitats.
New!!: Habitat and Mussel · See more »
Myrmica
Myrmica is a genus of ants within the subfamily Myrmicinae.
New!!: Habitat and Myrmica · See more »
Natural environment
The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.
New!!: Habitat and Natural environment · See more »
Nitrogen cycle
The nitrogen cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which nitrogen is converted into multiple chemical forms as it circulates among the atmosphere, terrestrial, and marine ecosystems.
New!!: Habitat and Nitrogen cycle · See more »
Organism
In biology, an organism (from Greek: ὀργανισμός, organismos) is any individual entity that exhibits the properties of life.
New!!: Habitat and Organism · See more »
Palaemonetes pugio
Palaemonetes pugio (daggerblade grass shrimp) is small, transparent shrimp with yellow coloring and brownish spots.
New!!: Habitat and Palaemonetes pugio · See more »
Parasitism
In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
New!!: Habitat and Parasitism · See more »
Pelagic zone
The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean, and can be further divided into regions by depth.
New!!: Habitat and Pelagic zone · See more »
Peregrine falcon
The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a widespread bird of prey (raptor) in the family Falconidae.
New!!: Habitat and Peregrine falcon · See more »
Photic zone
The photic zone, euphotic zone (Greek for "well lit": εὖ "well" + φῶς "light"), or sunlight or (sunlit) zone is the uppermost layer of water in a lake or ocean that is exposed to intense sunlight.
New!!: Habitat and Photic zone · See more »
Pieris rapae
Pieris rapae, the small white, is a small- to medium-sized butterfly species of the whites-and-yellows family Pieridae.
New!!: Habitat and Pieris rapae · See more »
Pioneer species
Pioneer species are hardy species which are the first to colonize previously biodiverse steady-state ecosystems.
New!!: Habitat and Pioneer species · See more »
Plankton
Plankton (singular plankter) are the diverse collection of organisms that live in large bodies of water and are unable to swim against a current.
New!!: Habitat and Plankton · See more »
Polar regions of Earth
The polar regions, also called the frigid zones, of Earth are the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles (the North and South Poles), lying within the polar circles.
New!!: Habitat and Polar regions of Earth · See more »
Pollen
Pollen is a fine to coarse powdery substance comprising pollen grains which are male microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce male gametes (sperm cells).
New!!: Habitat and Pollen · See more »
Polychaete
The Polychaeta, also known as the bristle worms or polychaetes, are a paraphyletic class of annelid worms, generally marine.
New!!: Habitat and Polychaete · See more »
Pond
A pond is a body of standing water, either natural or artificial, that is usually smaller than a lake.
New!!: Habitat and Pond · See more »
Population ecology
Population ecology is a sub-field of ecology that deals with the dynamics of species populations and how these populations interact with the environment.
New!!: Habitat and Population ecology · See more »
Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity.
New!!: Habitat and Precipitation · See more »
Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).
New!!: Habitat and Predation · See more »
Raccoon
The raccoon (or, Procyon lotor), sometimes spelled racoon, also known as the common raccoon, North American raccoon, or northern raccoon, is a medium-sized mammal native to North America.
New!!: Habitat and Raccoon · See more »
Rat
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents in the superfamily Muroidea.
New!!: Habitat and Rat · See more »
Reef
A reef is a bar of rock, sand, coral or similar material, lying beneath the surface of water.
New!!: Habitat and Reef · See more »
Restoration ecology
Restoration ecology is the scientific study supporting the practice of ecological restoration, which is the practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment by active human intervention and action.
New!!: Habitat and Restoration ecology · See more »
River
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river.
New!!: Habitat and River · See more »
Salt pan (geology)
Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun.
New!!: Habitat and Salt pan (geology) · See more »
San Quintin kangaroo rat
The San Quintin kangaroo rat (Dipodomys gravipes) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.
New!!: Habitat and San Quintin kangaroo rat · See more »
Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater.
New!!: Habitat and Scuba diving · See more »
Sea urchin
Sea urchins or urchins are typically spiny, globular animals, echinoderms in the class Echinoidea.
New!!: Habitat and Sea urchin · See more »
Seagrass
Seagrasses are flowering plants (angiosperms) belonging to four families (Posidoniaceae, Zosteraceae, Hydrocharitaceae and Cymodoceaceae), all in the order Alismatales (in the class of monocotyledons), which grow in marine, fully saline environments.
New!!: Habitat and Seagrass · See more »
Seaweed
Seaweed or macroalgae refers to several species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae.
New!!: Habitat and Seaweed · See more »
Seed
A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.
New!!: Habitat and Seed · See more »
Shoal
In oceanography, geomorphology, and earth sciences, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface.
New!!: Habitat and Shoal · See more »
Skunk
Skunks are North and South American mammals in the family Mephitidae.
New!!: Habitat and Skunk · See more »
Soil
Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.
New!!: Habitat and Soil · See more »
Solar irradiance
Solar irradiance is the power per unit area received from the Sun in the form of electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range of the measuring instrument.
New!!: Habitat and Solar irradiance · See more »
Sparrow
Sparrows are a family of small passerine birds.
New!!: Habitat and Sparrow · See more »
Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
New!!: Habitat and Species · See more »
Spore
In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions.
New!!: Habitat and Spore · See more »
Squirrel
Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents.
New!!: Habitat and Squirrel · See more »
Steppe
In physical geography, a steppe (p) is an ecoregion, in the montane grasslands and shrublands and temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biomes, characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.
New!!: Habitat and Steppe · See more »
Stream
A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.
New!!: Habitat and Stream · See more »
Subsidence
Subsidence is the motion of a surface (usually, the earth's surface) as it shifts downward relative to a datum such as sea level.
New!!: Habitat and Subsidence · See more »
Substrate (biology)
In biology, a substrate is the surface on which an organism (such as a plant, fungus, or animal) lives.
New!!: Habitat and Substrate (biology) · See more »
Subtropics
The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly between the tropics at latitude 23.5° (the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and temperate zones (normally referring to latitudes 35–66.5°) north and south of the Equator.
New!!: Habitat and Subtropics · See more »
Swallow
The swallows and martins, or Hirundinidae, are a family of passerine birds found around the world on all continents except Antarctica.
New!!: Habitat and Swallow · See more »
Symbiosis
Symbiosis (from Greek συμβίωσις "living together", from σύν "together" and βίωσις "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.
New!!: Habitat and Symbiosis · See more »
Tar pit
A tar pit, or more accurately an asphalt pit or asphalt lake, is the result of a type of petroleum seep where subterranean bitumen leaks to the surface, creating a large area of natural asphalt.
New!!: Habitat and Tar pit · See more »
Tectonic uplift
Tectonic uplift is the portion of the total geologic uplift of the mean Earth surface that is not attributable to an isostatic response to unloading.
New!!: Habitat and Tectonic uplift · See more »
Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
New!!: Habitat and Temperate climate · See more »
Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity expressing hot and cold.
New!!: Habitat and Temperature · See more »
The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
New!!: Habitat and The New York Times · See more »
Thelebolus
Thelebolus is a genus of fungi in the Thelebolaceae family.
New!!: Habitat and Thelebolus · See more »
Thymus (plant)
The genus Thymus (thymes) contains about 350 species of aromatic perennial herbaceous plants and subshrubs to 40 cm tall in the family Lamiaceae, native to temperate regions in Europe, North Africa and Asia.
New!!: Habitat and Thymus (plant) · See more »
Tide pool
Tide pools or rock pools are shallow pools of seawater that form on the rocky intertidal shore.
New!!: Habitat and Tide pool · See more »
Tropics
The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.
New!!: Habitat and Tropics · See more »
Tsunami
A tsunami (from 津波, "harbour wave"; English pronunciation) or tidal wave, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.
New!!: Habitat and Tsunami · See more »
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis (also referred to as UCD, UC Davis, or Davis), is a public research university and land-grant university as well as one of the 10 campuses of the University of California (UC) system.
New!!: Habitat and University of California, Davis · See more »
Urchin barren
An urchin barren is an area of the subtidal where the population growth of sea urchins has gone unchecked, causing destructive grazing of kelp beds or kelp forests (specifically the giant brown bladder kelp, Macrocystis).
New!!: Habitat and Urchin barren · See more »
Vegetation type
Vegetation type or plant community refers to members of a group or aspect of plants that are often found growing in an area together (plant associates), or that share similar environmental conditions, characterized by the presence of one or more dominant species.
New!!: Habitat and Vegetation type · See more »
Vernal pool
Vernal pools, also called vernal ponds or ephemeral pools, are temporary pools of water that provide habitat for distinctive plants and animals.
New!!: Habitat and Vernal pool · See more »
Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
New!!: Habitat and Volcano · See more »
Wallemia ichthyophaga
Wallemia ichthyophaga is one of the three species of fungi in the genus Wallemia, which in turn is the only genus of the class Wallemiomycetes.
New!!: Habitat and Wallemia ichthyophaga · See more »
Wildfire
A wildfire or wildland fire is a fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or rural area.
New!!: Habitat and Wildfire · See more »
Wildflower
A wildflower (or wild flower) is a flower that grows in the wild, meaning it was not intentionally seeded or planted.
New!!: Habitat and Wildflower · See more »
Wildlife corridor
A wildlife corridor, habitat corridor, or green corridor is an area of habitat connecting wildlife populations separated by human activities or structures (such as roads, development, or logging).
New!!: Habitat and Wildlife corridor · See more »
Zebra mussel
The zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) is a small freshwater mussel.
New!!: Habitat and Zebra mussel · See more »
Redirects here:
Animal habitats, Breeding ground, Breeding grounds, Habitat (ecology), Habitats, Micro-habitat, Micro-habitats, Microenvironment (ecology), Microhabitat, Microhabitats, Monotypic habitat, Natural habitat, Nesting ground, Polytypic habitat, Wildlife habitat.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat
