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microhabitat

n. A specific habitat, typically extremely small, such as a cave corner or a cardboard box.

Usage examples of "microhabitat".

The explanation of these observations lies in the realization that the humidity in which flies are actually living in nature is determined by the microhabitat they choose.

In animals this may mean that the behavior of the individual allows it to seek out physical conditions in specialized places, so-called microhabitats that are not typical of the more broadly defined region.

Students are encouraged to create miniature planetary microhabitats for a given set of organisms which can adapt to certain environmental conditions.

The precise number of interactions possible within Lattice, both between microhabitats and within them, began on a scale starting at large and ending at incomprehensible.

The largest microhabitats - one at each corner of the cube - housing the induction Guns that dealt with the traffic from the external Koyculture - were huge tubes 150 kilometres long.