On Vertisols and Alfisols, microhabitat processes are important.    From Wordnik.com.  [Texas blackland prairies] Reference

MIT researchers have built a tiny microhabitat to study the food chain of marine microbes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Many microhabitat specialists also florish in the diverse terrain, and may greatly increase the overall richness of the area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guianan moist forests] Reference

This new laboratory tool creates a microhabitat where tiny sea creatures live, swim, assimilate chemicals and eat each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

•The potential protection offered to a species against climate changes by its microhabitat is one of the traits under the category Range characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

For example, many invertebrates take refuge under rocks where they find a humid habitat away from sunlight and predators; the undersides of rocks are their microhabitat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

Very few insect species are actually exposed to the full rigors of winter temperatures as most choose an overwintering microhabitat that provides a buffered temperature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-09-01] Reference

Nevertheless, at least for the assessment of the short-term risks a particular species is facing, the characteristics of its microhabitat certainly need to be taken into account.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

In the lithosols of the mountains, podzolization is the main soil-forming process, and a rich diversity of variable and localized soil conditions have selected for microhabitat plant specialists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference

Differently stated, each species may have been competitively excluding the others from its foraging microhabitat, thus allowing coexistence in the larger habitat; with the use of different foraging techniques enhancing resource sharing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Competitive exclusion principle] Reference

Many arctic animals possess adaptations for escaping unfavorable weather, resource shortages, or other unfavorable conditions through either winter dormancy or by selection of refuges at a wide range of spatial scales, including microhabitat selection at any given site, seasonal habitat shifts within landscapes, and long-distance seasonal migrations within or across geographic regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [General characteristics of arctic species and their adaptations in the context of changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels] Reference

H2: decreased microhabitat quality increases stress levels of fishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Thus, sample clustering was related to microhabitat type (gardens or dumps) and not sample source (lab or field).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Readers find out as they follow the growth of a microhabitat in the tree as the claw marks cut the bark and begin a hole in the tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miss Rumphius Effect] Reference

Vanhooydonck B, Van Damme R (2003) Relationships between locomotor performance, microhabitat use and antipredator behaviour in lacertid lizards.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Where most police officers only see a fleck of mud on a discarded shoe, Siver finds a diverse microhabitat teeming with different types of diatoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

Different species of interstitial Luciogobius inhabit sediments with different granulometric properties, suggesting that microhabitat partitioning has been an important mechanism facilitating speciation in these fishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

As well as this, all of the surface area helps to bind nutrients in the soil and also provides a microhabitat for micro organisms in the soil which are essential for the natural processes in the soil which allow micro organisms to flourish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak Energy] Reference

Tiny microhabitat to study marine organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

It would seem likely though that interspecific trophic and microhabitat segmentation//specialization becomes a larger selective force in a largely unchanging environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference