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 habitat ['hæbə`tæt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 栖息地, 居留地, 自生地, 聚集处

[医] 习生地, 产地, 生境, 栖所


  1. The polar bear's habitat is the icy waters of the Arctic.
    北极熊的栖息地是冰冷的北极海域。
  2. I prefer to see animals in their natural habitat, rather than in zoos.
    我宁愿观赏居住在自然栖息地里的动物,而不愿看关在动物园里的动物。
  3. The moth's habitat is being destroyed and it has nearly died out.
    这种蛾子因栖息地正受到破坏,几乎绝种了。


habitat
[ noun ]
the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs
<noun.location>
a marine habitathe felt safe on his home grounds


Habitat \Hab"i*tat\ (h[a^]b"[i^]*t[a^]t), n. [L., it dwells, fr.
habitare. See {Habit}, v. t.]
1. (Biol.) The natural abode, locality or region of an animal
or plant.

2. Place where anything is commonly found.

This word has its habitat in Oxfordshire. --Earle.

  1. About 5.4 million acres of owl habitat already are in national parks or wilderness areas off limits to logging, so an additional 3 million acres would have to be withdrawn.
  2. It is opening habitat that has been closed for a couple of hundred years.
  3. "While I am supporting this provision because it assists in the preservation of critical habitat, I also note that it will ease the economic transition in areas affected by the listing of the spotted owl," Bush said.
  4. Its numbers have declined dramatically as two-thirds of its habitat has been destroyed from years of intense logging.
  5. The scientific committee led by Forest Service biologist Jack Ward Thomas determined the owl has lost about two-thirds of its habitat since 1800.
  6. "Unless habitat loss is reversed, in 30 or 40 years, there won't be enough salmon left to justify any commercial fishing," said Mr. Baake, the Oregon Trout resource director.
  7. The men were from Pingwu County, a major habitat of the giant panda.
  8. The announcement comes on the heels of a declaration by government scientists in April that the rare owl is likely to become extinct unless millions of acres of habitat are created.
  9. Speaking Monday in Portland, Oregon, on the dispute over saving the spotted owl's habitat while putting loggers out of work, President Bush said, "Common sense tells us to find a needed balance."
  10. It has burned for ten days through rugged wildlife habitat in the eastern Utah reservation.
  11. Greenpeace alleges the strip will open up the area for mining operations, destroying the natural habitat and breeding ground of the Emperor and Adelie penguins.
  12. George Leonard, associate chief of the Forest Service, said in an interview that implementation of his agency's plan to protect spotted owl habitat will "allow us to get on to some semblance of a timber sale program.
  13. The tiger was outside in a natural habitat display while Tovar was in an interior hallway when the attack occurred.
  14. "This planet wouldn't be a suitable habitat for life as we know it," said David W. Latham, the astronomer who reported the discovery to a meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Baltimore.
  15. They began returning in the late 1890s when the practice of clear-cutting the state's forest exterminated the wolf by destroying its habitat.
  16. The Roseburg woman went to the Wildlife Safari animal park in Winston for her birthday Monday and had lunch at the White Rhino restaurant overlooking a pond and an island providing habitat for white gibbon apes.
  17. But streams need to be messy to be productive habitat for the coho salmon, steelhead and cutthroat.
  18. However, it was unlikely heavy equipment would arrive at the site by Tuesday because crews must first be trained how to adhere to work restrictions in the officially designated "refugium," the squirrel's prime habitat, he said.
  19. Bakke suggests less artificial remedies: release more water over dams to help smolts swim downstream, limit commercial fishing, and stop destroying spawning habitat.
  20. Instead, next winter, he'll haul dirt onto the ice-covered pond so when spring arrives, mounds will sprout to produce ideal nesting habitat for ducks.
  21. The environmentalists claim that the telescope project would encroach on the habitat of the endangered Mount Graham red squirrel.
  22. The neighbors of Burundi _ Zaire, Rwanda and Tanzania _ do have elephants, which have been severely threatened by poaching and loss of habitat.
  23. Severely disturbed, "a lot of the desert will simply blow away," destroying wildlife habitat and sparse farmland and possibly overrunning roads and towns, says Charles Pilcher, a researcher who has studied the wildlife of the Kuwaiti desert.
  24. Siegfried and Roy's tigers will have their own habitat, at the end of a moving walkway that brings people from the Strip to one area of the resort.
  25. This in turn will spawn a private space habitat industry and invigorate the launcher industry.
  26. By the 1950s, the birds' salt marsh habitat near the St. Johns River in central Florida was rapidly being consumed by development. Pesticides sprayed to control mosquitoes also hurt the birds.
  27. Arizona has an initiative to spend $20 million a year on wildlife habitat and open space protection.
  28. "The improvements in eagle numbers may be only temporary because eagle habitat is still being destroyed at an unprecedented rate," said M. Rupert Cutler, president of Defenders of Wildlife.
  29. If we have one barge break open some time, we potentially could have a major portion of the whooping crane habitat contaminated." Remember 20 years ago?
  30. They are being better managed and their habitat has improved.
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