- Phytotope
Phytotope is the total habitat available for Colonisation biology colonisation within any certain ecotope or biotope by plants and fungi. The community of plants and fungi so established constitutes the phytocoenosis of that ecotope. All these words ecotope, biotope, phytotope and others describe environmental niches at very small scales of consideration. A suburban garden or village park or wilderness ravine would each be deserving of the label. References Kratochwil, Anselm. Biodiversity in Ecosystems Principles and Case Studies of Different Complexity Levels. Series Tasks for Vegetation Science, XXXIV. Dordrecht, Germany Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. ISBN 0 7923 5717 5. See also Ecological land classification Category Ecosystems Category Ecology terminology Category Habitat ecology terminology ecoregion stub ... more details
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