microhabitat

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.