Traits:Habitat

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Habitat

Habitat: Traits that describe an organisms preferred habitat and its position within that habitat.

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Has Values:

• Habitat
  • Environmental position
    • Demersal
    • Endophytic
    • Endozoic
    • Epibenthic
    • Epifaunal
    • Epifloral
    • Epilithic
    • Epipelic
    • Epiphytic
    • Epizooic
    • Hyperbenthic
    • Infaunal
    • Interstitial
    • Lithotomous
    • Nektonic (nekton)
    • Neustonic
    • Planktonic (plankton)
    • Pleustonic
  • Physiography
    • Enclosed coast or embayment
    • Estuary
    • Isolated saline water (lagoon)
    • Offshore seabed
    • Open coast
    • Ria or voe
    • Sea loch (Scotland), sea lough (Ireland)
    • Strait or sound
  • Salinity (regime)
    • Brackish
      • Mesohaline
        • Alpha-Mesohaline
        • Beta-Mesohaline
      • Oligohaline
        • Alpha-Oligohaline
        • Beta-Oligohaline
      • Polyhaline
        • Alpha-Polyhaline
        • Beta-Polyhaline
    • Freshwater
    • Hyper-saline
    • Marine
      • Alpha-haline
      • Beta-Haline
  • Substratum
    • Features or other substratum
      • Biogenic reef
      • Burrow dweller
      • Cave
      • Crevices and fissures
      • Macroalgae
      • Maerl
      • Other species
      • Overhang
      • Rockpool
      • Salt marsh
      • Seagrass
      • Strand-line
      • Under boulders
    • Hard
      • Immobile hard
        • Artificial (man-made)
        • Bedrock
        • Large or very large boulders
        • Small boulders
      • Mobile hard
        • Cobbles
        • Pebbles
    • Soft (sediment)
      • Clay
      • Coarse sediments
        • Gravel or shingle
        • Gravelly sand
        • Sandy gravel
      • Mixed
        • Gravelly mud
        • Gravelly muddy sand
        • Muddy gravel
        • Muddy sandy gravel
      • Mud and sandy mud
        • Mud
        • Muddy sand
        • Sandy mud
      • Sand and muddy sand
        • Sand
          • Coarse clean sand
          • Fine clean sand
          • Medium clean sand
  • Tidal streams and water flow (range)
    • Moderately strong
    • Strong
    • Very strong
    • Very weak
    • Weak
  • Tolerance
    • Type I
    • Type II
    • Type III
    • Type IV
    • Type V
  • Wave exposure
    • Wave exposed
      • Exposed
      • Extremely exposed
      • Moderately exposed
      • Very exposed
    • Wave sheltered
      • Extremely sheltered
      • Sheltered
      • Ultra sheltered
      • Very sheltered