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 Ecological definitions Category Habitat ecology terminology 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
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