Habitat and Microhabitat

Individuals, species and populations, both marine and terrestrial, tend to live in particular places. These places are called “habitats”. Each habitat is characterised by a specific set of environmental conditions – radiation and light, temperature, moisture, wind, fire frequency and intensity, gravity, salinity, currents, topography, soil, substratum, geomorphology, human disturbances and so forth. Habitats come in all shapes and sizes, occupying the full sweep of geographical scales, such as human and vertebrate animal. Microhabitats (part of habitat) are a few square centimeters to a few square meters in area. They include leaves, the soil, lake bottoms, sandy beaches, tall slopes, wall, river banks, and paths, for the example of organism in microhabitat is Collembola sp.