The term “habitat” refers to the location or place where a biological population or an organism resides, lives, or exists. A habitat is a place where a species survives or grows. For that species, it is their native environment. It will find food, shelter, and a mate there to reproduce. The species will try to adapt as much as possible to this environment.
Habitats might be a specific location or a wide area of land. They could be aquatic or terrestrial. Forests, grasslands, steppes, and deserts are a few examples of terrestrial habitats. Freshwater, saltwater, and brackish water are all types of aquatic habitats. Geographically, habitats can be categorised as either temperate, polar, tropical or subtropical.
The habitat of a species need not be geographically defined; it might be the interior of a stem, a rotting wood, a boulder, or a cluster of moss. A parasitic organism’s habitat is either the body of its host, a specific organ like the digestive system, or a single cell within the host.
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