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  2. Habitants - Wikipedia

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    The seigneur was also allowed to a specific number of days of labour by habitants and to claim rights over fishing, timberm, and common pastures. [ 3 ] Though the seigneurs' demands became more significant at the end of French rule, they could neither obtain enough resources from the rents and fees imposed on the habitants alone to become truly ...

  3. Habitat - Wikipedia

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    The word "habitat" has been in use since about 1755 and derives from the Latin habitāre, to inhabit, from habēre, to have or to hold.Habitat can be defined as the natural environment of an organism, the type of place in which it is natural for it to live and grow.

  4. Wildebeest - Wikipedia

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    The most obvious ways of telling the two species apart are the differences in their colouring and in the way their horns are oriented. [ 8 ] In East Africa , the blue wildebeest is the most abundant big-game species ; some populations perform an annual migration to new grazing grounds, but the black wildebeest is merely nomadic.

  5. Settlement hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    It is based on vector field calculations obtained by assuming that, in a given space, all inhabitants and jobs exert the same attractive force A and repulsive force R. The net force (A - R) exerted by each inhabitant or job is given by [1/(1 + d)] - [1/( β + d/2)], where d = distance and β is the only parameter.

  6. Biotope - Wikipedia

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    Biotope is almost synonymous with the term "habitat", which is more commonly used in English-speaking countries. However, in some countries these two terms are distinguished: the subject of a habitat is a population, the subject of a biotope is a biocoenosis or "biological community". [1]

  7. Community (ecology) - Wikipedia

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    A bear with a salmon. Interspecific interactions such as predation are a key aspect of community ecology.. In ecology, a community is a group or association of populations of two or more different species occupying the same geographical area at the same time, also known as a biocoenosis, biotic community, biological community, ecological community, or life assemblage.

  8. Inwohner - Wikipedia

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    Their number, however, remained comparatively low in all Mecklenburg country towns. In south-western Saxony, it became common around 1700 to speak of "propertied Inwohner ". This could mean Hufners and other inhabitants of the villages who held real property, or home owners in towns.

  9. Population - Wikipedia

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    Population is the term typically used to refer to the number of people in a single area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the size of a resident population within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals , microorganisms , and plants , and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics .