Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An area that is uniform in environmental conditions and in its distribution of animal and plant life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a region uniform in its environmental conditions and in the types of plants and animals living in it.
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- noun A
geographical area that has a uniformbiological environment and a uniformdistribution ofplants andanimals - noun figuratively a context where someone feels 'naturally' at home, such as his field of professional or scientific expertise
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A biotope is a kind of natural habitat, but Maurer also wanted "something artificial, something abstract."
NYT > Home Page By PILAR VILADAS 2011
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We have a biotope—a pond, and one of our turtles died.
Collecting Is Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder's Forte Mariana Schroeder 2011
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We have a biotope—a pond, and one of our turtles died.
Collecting Is Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder's Forte Mariana Schroeder 2011
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I have certainly run into references to growing them in brackish setups, but I have ever seen any pictures or real descriptions and wonder if these might just be based on biotope records.
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I have an idea in mind for a West Africa biotope riparium.
Transporter n 2009
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Space exploration and science beyond and above our contemporary earthly biotope is without doubt likewise promising and useful.
Up, Up and Away! Helium Balloon Telescope Explores the Sun | Universe Today 2009
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I just put up a new project page to document some work on a brackish water Southeast Asian mangrove biotope-ish aquarium.
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I just put up a new project page to document some work on a brackish water Southeast Asian mangrove biotope-ish aquarium.
New project page 2008
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So, they are one of the species that took advantage of man-made changes there is no more pristine biotope left in Germany as well as in Belgium.
Woodpigeons in Antwerp AYDIN 2007
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Meanwhile, the water of a small biotope in the back garden was reflecting the sunlight of the warm summer afternoon.
bilby commented on the word biotope
"Because it obstructed normal travel and commerce in areas that abutted it, the Iron Curtain inadvertently isolated ecosystems and protected wildlife. Therefore, when the East-West border was dismantled, remarkably pristine biotopes emerged from one of modern history’s most ignominious creations."
- Paul Hockenos, Pedaling the Iron Curtain, german-times.com, June 2009.
August 13, 2009