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[...biotope...]

Well "biotope" does mean as much as "habitat"..

Biotope
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Biotope is a coined word proposed firstly in Germany (Biotop) based on Greek
bios='life or organism' and topos='place'. So biotope is literally an area
where life is living. More precisely, biotope is an area of uniform
environmental conditions providing living place for a specific assemblage of
plants and animals. Biotope is almost synonymous with the term habitat but
while the subject of habitat is a species or a population, the subject of
biotope is a community.[1] Taking in the wide sense, forests or sea could be
biotope but generally biotope is often within the circle of human everyday
life. Nowadays, its original meaning as an ecological space itself almost
fade away and biotope is widely noticed as a keyword of preservation of the
environment.