microhabitats

Habitat wall - there are many variations on this theme, but in the Life Cycle garden a stack of old pallets was the basis for a wall of "microhabitats", that is, nooks and crannies.

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There are also flowing interfluves (caños) carved by natural drainage, depressions which hold wet season lagoons (lucios) and hollows with upwelling groundwater (ojos), which form a mosaic of microhabitats: pools, streams, mudflats, reedbeds, banks and islands.

Doñana National Park, Spain 2008

The dense mats of hyacinth create ideal microhabitats for various undesirable organisms such as mosquito larvae (malarial included).

Did you know? Lake Chapala under attack from water hyacinth 2008

The dense mats of hyacinth create ideal microhabitats for various undesirable organisms such as mosquito larvae (malarial included).

Did you know? Lake Chapala under attack from water hyacinth 2008

Desert plants that do have large leaves produce them only during the cool or rainy season or else live in shaded microhabitats.

Adaptations of desert plants 2009

The small area of karst in the north-west has distinctive microhabitats.

Dong Phayayan Khao-Yai Forest Complex, Thailand 2009

The hilly terrain provides a multitude of microhabitats on north and south slopes and deep, shaded canyons.

Subdivisions of the Sonoran Desert 2009

The karst shelters microhabitats which favor endemic species of reptiles and bats. 200 species of reptiles and amphibians are known to exist in the Park, 63 reptile species are recorded in Khao-Yai alone.

Dong Phayayan Khao-Yai Forest Complex, Thailand 2009

At the landscape scale, plants are distributed in mosaics associated with microhabitats, and the larger-scale latitudinal range changes are very likely to be associated with initial changes in landscape mosaics.

Recent and projected changes in arctic species distributions and potential ranges 2009

Lower down are unspoilt well watered wooded valleys containing a variety of microhabitats and trees such as white stinkwood Celtis africana, wild peach Kiggelaria africana, tree fuchsia Halleria lucida, sagewood Buddleja salvifolia and orange thorn Cassinopsis ilicifolia.

Vredefort Dome, South Africa 2009