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Habitat

Habitat
Dr. Randi Rotjan, New England Aquarium. www.neaq.org · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source

Overview

ecological or environmental area inhabited by a particular species; natural environment in which an organism lives, or the physical environment that surrounds a species population

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  1. For though every environment on the Earth's surface undergoes changes; and though usually the organisms which each environment contains, cannot escape certain resulting new influences; yet occasionally such new influences are escaped, by the survival of species in the unchanged parts of their habitats, or by their spread into neighbouring habitats which the change has rendered like their original habitats, or by…

    Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, Volume 1

    Names Habitat several times; opens on Habitat.

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  2. GRANITE.—A rock consisting essentially of crystals of felspar and mica in a mass of quartz. HABITAT.—The locality in which a plant or animal naturally lives. HEMIPTERA.—An order or sub-order of insects, characterised by the possession of a jointed beak or rostrum, and by having the fore-wings horny in the basal portion and membranous at the extremity, where they cross each…

    Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

    States what Habitat is; names Habitat.

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  3. Variability. Individual differences. Doubtful species. Wide ranging, much diffused, and common species vary most. Species of the larger genera in any country vary more than the species of the smaller genera. Many of the species of the larger genera resemble varieties in being very closely, but unequally, related to each other, and in having restricted ranges. Before applying the principles arrived at in the last…

    Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection

    States what Habitat is.

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