Biopedia

84- Habitat

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Following on from the definition of biomes in episode 78, we're zooming in and discussing habitats today. What we'll find is that the term is similar but smaller scale in terms of number of species considered- and that there used to be considerable uncertainty in the literature...


Sources for this episode:

  • Allaby, M. (editor) (2020), Oxford Dictionary of Zoology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Carpenter, J. R. (1939), The Biome. The American Midland Naturalist 21(1): 75-91.
  • Hall, L. S., Krausman, P. R. and Morrison, M. L. (1997), The Habitat Concept and a Plea for Standard Terminology. Wildlife Society Bulletin 25(1): 173-182.
  • Hine, R. S. (2019), Oxford Dictionary of Biology (8th edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Thain, M. and Hickman, M. (2004), The Penguin Dictionary of Biology (11th edition). London: the Penguin Group.
  • Yapp, R. H. (1922), The Concept of Habitat. Journal of Ecology 10(1): 1-17.
  • Author unknown (1929), Prof. R. H. Yapp. Nature 123: 249-250.
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