What's in a habitat?

About habitats!

A habitat is:

The location or place where an organism livesThe habitat of lyrebird is

the leaf litter of temperate sclerophyll

eucalyptus forests.

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What are the types of habitats?

Terrestrial

•deserts

•grasslands

•tropical rain forests

•other

Aquatic

•Freshwater -lakes -rivers -ponds•Marine-coral reefs -open ocean-seafloor•Estuarine-tidal affected rivers

Range

The geographic area that encloses all

habitats where a species lives

Source:Atlas of Living AustraliaRIGHTS: ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL LICENSE Distribution map of Australian dingoes. The black line represents the Dingofence (after Fleming et al 2001).

Migration

Predictable movement between widely

separated habitats.

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Niche‘Way of life’

‘Role of a species in a community’

The niche of a koala is that of a nocturnal tree dwelling herbivore that feeds on

eucalyptus leaves.

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Niche overlap

Different species in a community typically have either zero or a low degree of niche

overlap

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