Converse of object

• provide: This has significant effects on the type and variety of microhabitats provided by the tree for animals, plants and fungi to colonize.

• rot: As great a variety as possible of rotting wood microhabitats should therefore be encouraged within a woodland.

• create: Growing on the burn plateau, this plant creates a microhabitat occupied by many animal species particularly birds.

• occupy: Growing on the burn plateau, this plant creates a microhabitat occupied by many animal species particularly birds.

• maintain: Vegetation has been cleared to maintain various microhabitats and the pond dredged to allow existing oxygenating plants to dominate.

Preposition: for

• organism: Walls also create conditions of shelter and warmth, shade and damp, providing microhabitats for various organisms.

• specie: It will also provide a variety of microhabitats for the many different species which inhabit rotting wood in Britain.

Adjective modifier

• different: The more different microhabitats there are available within a woodland, the greater biodiversity will be.

• species-rich: The most species-rich microhabitats were found in association with fallen trees and branches: decaying sap under bark and decaying sapwood.

• various: Vegetation has been cleared to maintain various microhabitats and the pond dredged to allow existing oxygenating plants to dominate.

• important: Important microhabitats include flowers and fruits, fungi, carrion, dung and nests.

• small: Rotting wood and a single tree are just two examples of larger microhabitats which can be endlessly scaled down into ever smaller microhabitats.

• many: Pediastrum is a genus of green algae that is commonly found in many freshwater microhabitats because it has a cosmopolitan distribution.

Modifies a noun

• type: Figure 3: Comparison of the species richness in three microhabitat types at Lyme Regis.