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Preferred term

habitat

Definition

[Henderson's] n. the environment within which an organism is normally found. A habitat is characterized by the physical characteristics of the environment and/or the dominant vegetation or other stable biotic characteristics. Examples of habitats can be as general as lakes, woodland or soil, or more speciﬁc, such as mudﬂats, the bark of an oak tree, chalk downland. cf. niche. see also Shelford’s law of tolerance.

Broader concept

deprecated concept

Note

[controlled by ] Mark Frenzel, 22 May 2013

Scope note

LTER EU controlled vocabulary

Creator

herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

French

habitat

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/EnvEu_13

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Created 3/31/16, last modified 6/18/18

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