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Artificial Habitats
Liceo de Apodaca
11/01/2013
8b Netherlands
Andrea De León Chapa
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Index
1. What is artificial habitat?
2. What is habitat?
3. What is artificial?
4. The habitats of the world?
5. Habitat classes
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What is Artificial habitat?
A habitat that has been affected by humans in some way, usually that has been changed
for a purpose
What is habitat?
In the ecosystem, habitat is the environment that occupies a biological population. This is
space that meets the conditions in which the species can live and reproduce, perpetuating
their presence. A habitat is well described by the traits that define ecologically distinct
from other habitats in which the same species could not be accommodated.
What is artificial?
Artificial is something that is not natural. Its original meaning in connection with a device
or artifice, refers to a product of human activity, as a synonym for "man-made". It is also
used in the sense of 'false', in the sense that it is intended to be or show what is not, as a
substitute for the natural, as in artificial turf or artificial sweetener.
The habitats of the world
In each region there are different habitats continuously changing climate or by human
influence. In the world, there are types of habitats that many species of animals and
vegetation. For a bacterium, a puddle in a city can be habitat for the prairie a lion in Africa,
also going through a bear on a mountain in North America or a serpent in a swamp of
Asia. All these are habitats of various ecosystems that belong to a specific place, in which
climate determines and enables the plant and animal life is played in a particular way and
stable in which the conditions for life to occur and play.
The use of the term appears in the life sciences in the early twentieth century in the
community of zoologists of the time, to call the "lebensraum" or room of some kind, ie the
place where it lives (not to be confused with the concept of habitat lebensraum neologism
adopted in sociology). The naturalist-biological concept refers strictly to the geographic
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location where a particular species and its range. It could be defined as the place where an
organism (plant or animal) lives naturally. This concept is simple and clear, easy to
understand and interpret and not greater ambiguity. However, for cases such as migratory
and / or development and reproduction cycles in different places, the spatial definition
can not be a simple task. In such cases, to remain within the concept, refers to complex
habitat types.
With the development of ecological theory, it incorporates an environmental dimension
to this first concept and introduced as a fundamental part of the definition abiotic
becoming the space that brings together the physical and biological features necessary for
the survival and reproduction of a species . This second definition refers directly to the
biotic and abiotic conditions present in a particular space, suitable for a particular species.
Free the concept of strict presence of the species to limit this space, since it is defined
only in terms of their environmental requirements. It is not the actual distribution of the
species but the determinant that fills space conditions for this to occur, the space is
divided because in real habitat and potential habitat.
These two concepts are monospecific habitat and limited to handling problems
autoecological; may only marginally dealt with them sinecological studies approaches.
From the perspective of conservation are especially practical, applied, for example,
specific problems of threatened or endangered. However, in more general studies, holistic
or ecological scaling the two previous definitions may be insufficient or inappropriate. So
you get to a third concept that stands out from the above by integrating and not one but
several species explicitly defined to conform more to an environmental unit,
distinguishable from other units. One speaks of habitat in terms of space they share
several species characterized by a certain uniformity of biotic and abiotic conditions. Then
consider appropriate environmental characteristics (optimal) not just one species but for
several. In this case, which is defined biocoenosis habitat which introduces the need for
uniformity. The different habitats are detected or identified by the change or modification
of such uniformity.
Ligate the concept of the biocenosis habitat comprises some features especially practical
with respect to the other two definitions:
Spatially unique: the same space can not correspond to two different habitats at the same
time.
Environmentally uniform is multispecies explicitly defined, and is therefore insensitive to
species with complex life cycles.
Structuring species: the set of species that make up the biotic component are defined as
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those which are subject to the presence of the other.
The habitat can be defined only from the set of species structuring or settlements. This
means that is independent of the level of organization of biotic component. This concept
can be confused with the habitat biotope, however, generally, the latter is specific to
topographic space occupying different biological communities.
You can subdivide a habitat in different microhabitats, or portions of the space habitat,
which always go together.
Habitat classes
Habitats respond to certain weather patterns, environmental and geographical. Thus have
formed different habitat types as follows:
• Prairie.
• Forest.
• Desert.
• Mountain.
• Marshes.
• Sabana.
• Polar Region.
• River.
• Swamp.
• Coral reef.
• Ocean.
• Beach.
• Quebrada.
• Lagos.
• Altiplano.
• Biome.
• Biomass.
• Biotope.
• Community.
• Community (Biocenosis).
• Desert.
• Destruction of habitat.
• Ecology.
• Ecosystem.
• Species.
• Steppe.
• Fragmentation of habitat.
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• Human Habitat.
• Mangrove.
• Ecological niche.
• Swamp.
• Pasture.
• Population.
• Sabana.
• Forest.
• Tundra.
• snowed.
• Town.
SOVB artificial habitat created a rigid synthetic fibers to protect the fry. These young fish
often so stay on the banks of rivers, becoming prey fish like perch. This system acts as a
simple but effective shelter for these fry, mimicking their natural environment.
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Reference sources
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_artificial_habitat
www.sovb.fr/en/brushes/artificial-habitat-protection-9
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1bitat
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Conclusion:
My conclusion is that a habitat is where animals live can be artificial or natural
artificial: it is something created by humans
then an artificial habitat is a place where animals live created by man and artificial
habitats benefit is that you can also help endangered animals
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