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African elephants (Loxodonta africana) live in the area surrounding Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
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Charles Elton
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open habitat
biomass
carrying capacity
endemism
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habitat, place where an organism or a community of organisms lives, including all living and nonliving factors or conditions of the surrounding environment. A host organism inhabited by parasites is as much a habitat as a terrestrial place such as a grove of trees or an aquatic locality such as a small pond. Microhabitat is a term for the conditions and organisms in the immediate vicinity of a plant or animal.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Augustyn.