Zootope is the total habitat available for colonisation within any certain ecotope or biotope by animal life. The community of animals so established constitutes the zoocoenosis of that ecotope. All these words ecotope, biotope, zootope and others describe environmental niches at very small scales of consideration. The rabbits and squirrels and mosquitoes of any suburban garden or village park, or the deer and wolves and birds of a 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 ecoregion stub ... more details
Geographical features are the components of the Earth. There are two types of geographical features, namely natural geographical features and artificial geographical features. Natural geographical features include but are not limited to landforms and ecosystems. For example, terrain types, bodies of water, natural units consisting of all plants, animals and micro organisms in an area functioning together with all of the non living physical factors of the environment are natural geographical features. Meanwhile, human settlements, engineered constructs, etc. are types of artificial geographic features. Natural geographical features Ecosystems main Ecosystem Any unit that includes all of the organisms ie the community in a given area interacting with the physical environment so that a flow of energy leads to clearly defined trophic structure, biotic diversity, and material cycles i.e. exchange of materials between living and nonliving parts within the system is an ecosystem. ref Odum EP 1971 Fundamentals of ecology, third editionSaunders New York ref Living organism s are continually engaged in a set of relationships with every other element constituting the environment biophysical environment in which they exist, and ecosystem describes any situation where there is relationship between organisms and their environment. What makes them geographical features is that they are located center class wikitable align center style text align center Types and sizes of ecosystems colspan 3 Biotic colspan 3 Abiotic sub ecosystem ECOSYSTEM sub sub biogeography BIOGEOGRAPHY sub sub zoogeography ZOOGEOGRAPHY sub sub phytogeography PHYTOGEOGRAPHY sub sub physiography PHYSIOGRAPHY sub sub geology GEOLOGY sub sub pedology soil study PEDOLOGY sub ecozone biome floral kingdom ecoprovince floristic province floral province geoprovince ecoregion bioregion floristic province floral region physioregion georegion pedoregion ecodistrict ecosection ecosite ecotope biotope zootope phytotope phys ... more details
Taxobox name Black giant squirrel image Ratufa bicolor 6237.jpg status NT status system iucn3.1 status ref ref name iucn IUCN2008 assessors Walston, J., Duckworth, J. W., Molur, S. year 2008 id 19377 title Ratufa bicolor downloaded 6 January 2009 ref regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Mammal ia ordo Rodent ia familia Sciuridae genus Ratufa species R. bicolor binomial Ratufa bicolor binomial authority Anders Sparrman Sparrman , 1778 subdivision ranks Subspecies ref name Thorington cite book last1 Thorington first1 R.W., Jr. last2 Hoffmann first2 R.S. year 2005 chapter Family Sciuridae pages 754 818 editor1 last Wilson editor1 first D.E. editor2 last Reeder editor2 first D.M url http www.bucknell.edu msw3 chapter Ratufa bicolor chapterurl http www.bucknell.edu msw3 browse.asp?id 12400014 title Mammal Species of the World a taxonomic and geographic reference edition 3rd publisher The Johns Hopkins University Press isbn 0 8018 8221 4 oclc 26158608 ref subdivision R. b. bicolor R. b. condorensis R. b. felli R. b. gigantea R. b. hainana R. b. leucogenys R. b. melanopepla R. b. palliata R. b. phaeopepla R. b. smithi synonyms Tennentii , source Layard, in Blyth, 1849 range map Ratufa bicolor range map.svg range map caption Black giant squirrel range The black giant squirrel or Malayan giant squirrel Ratufa bicolor is a large tree squirrel in the genus Ratufa native to the Indomalayan zootope . It is found in forests from northern Bangladesh , northeast India , eastern Nepal , Bhutan , southern China , Myanmar , Laos , Thailand , Cambodia , Vietnam and western Indonesia . Description Head and body length varies from convert 35 to 58 cm in in length, and the tail is up to convert 60 cm in long, with an overall length of up to convert 118 cm in . The back, ears and bushy tail are deep brown to black with a lighter buff colored belly. Habitat Ratufa bicolor s Range biology range includes a variety of Ecoregion bioregions that all share the commonality of being fo ... more details
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