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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(Update on August 25, 2007)

Habitat

Definition

An area or a place where a plant or animal species gets the resources, such as food, water, and space it needs to reproduce.
Often a habitat is defined for a whole living organisms in the community.
More fine-scaled habitat is called as microhabitat.


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Habitat for Trillium smallii Maxim. is generally the floor of deciduous forests.

-Habitat for mangrove.


Habitat creation for environmental conservation

Provide a conservation benefit to the species

Increase the population
Protect, enhance or restore habitat
Buffer protected areas
Test or implement new conservation strategies


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