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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 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.


habitat
the environment in which an animal or plant normally lives or grows

habitat [′habĀ·ə‚tat]
(ecology)
The part of the physical environment in which a plant or animal lives.

(networking, graphics)Habitat - The original term for on-line graphical virtual communities or worlds. Created at Lucasfilm in 1985 by Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar.

http://communities.com/habitat.html.


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The possibility of the state's prisons and jails becoming a breeding ground for terrorists is yet another reason to move quickly on cleaning up our corrections system.
There is a warm ocean anomaly 250 miles off the coast of New Jersey where the water temperature had reached 70 degrees by early May--a ready made breeding ground for hurricanes.
Pied flycatcher numbers are crashing in places where climate change has knocked the birds' spring migration out of sync with the food bonanza on the breeding ground.
 
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