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n. 1 A very small area that has different characteristics than its surroundings 2 (context biology English) The very small environment in the immediate vicinity of an organism
Wikipedia
Microenvironment may refer to:
- Microenvironment (biology), a small or relatively small usually distinctly specialized and effectively isolated biophysical environment (as of a nerve cell)
- Microenvironment (ecology), also known as a microhabitat, a very small, specific area in a habitat, distinguished from its immediate surroundings by factors such as the amount of incident light, the degree of moisture, and the range of temperatures
- Microenvironment (business), nearby factors that affect a company's ability to serve its customers, such as the company itself, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, customer markets and the public
Usage examples of "microenvironment".
Creatures unknown elsewhere in the world inhabited the microenvironment where fresh and salt water met.
So the rate of growth determines the microenvironment, which determines the rate of growth.
And now, with new cultivars to clone and test every time someone starts planning to plant a new microenvironment, they need all the help they can get.
Paul Perry when he disembarked from the beanstalk on Clarke, but somehow one thing led to another, and Charlie was still hunched over one of his microenvironments when his contact flashed a message.
Something felt weird about the way these microenvironments were being paraded before the two of them, as if the mindor mindscontrolling the whole vast apparatus had some point it was trying to make, or some desire to communicate.
The jungle was not one uniform environment but many different microenvironments, arranged vertically like a layer cake.