Abstract
Habitat is defined here as the environment of a community confined to a portion of the landscape. Each habitat is made of three species-specific components:
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‘Environmental’ physical and chemical features (e.g., temperature, salinity)
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Resources (e.g., food, space)
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Interacting organisms (other than those functioning as resources, e.g., competitors, predators, mutualists).
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Safriel, U.N., Ben-Eliahu, M.N. (1991). The influence of habitat structure and environmental stability on the species diversity of polychaetes in vermetid reefs. In: Bell, S.S., McCoy, E.D., Mushinsky, H.R. (eds) Habitat Structure. Population and Community Biology Series, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3076-9_17
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