| Abstract from DBPedia | A biotope is an area of uniform environmental conditions providing a living place for a specific assemblage of plants and animals. 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". It is an English loanword derived from the German Biotop, which in turn came from the Greek bios (meaning 'life') and topos ('place'). (The related word geotope has made its way into the English language by the same route, from the German Geotop.)ビオトープ（独: Biotop）は生物群集の生息空間を示す言葉である。日本語に訳す場合は生物空間（せいぶつくうかん）、生物生息空間（せいぶつせいそくくうかん）とされる。語源はギリシア語からの造語（bio（命） + topos（場所）。転じて、生物が住みやすいように環境を改変することを指すこともある。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Biotope) |
