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African elephants (Loxodonta africana) live in the area surrounding Mount Kilimanjaro, &elipsis; [Credit: Renee Lynn—Stone/Getty Images]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.
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