macrohabitat

English

Etymology

From macro- +‎ habitat.

Noun

macrohabitat (plural macrohabitats)

1. (ecology) A relatively large habitat, that contains multiple environments and multiple types of organism
   • 2009 February 6, Sergey Gavrilets, Jonathan B. Losos, “Adaptive Radiation: Contrasting Theory with Data”, in Science‎^[1], volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 732–737:

     3) Stages of radiation: All else being equal, the following sequence of the diversification events is expected: (i) divergence with respect to macrohabitat; (ii) evolution of microhabitat choice and divergence with respect to microhabitat; (iii) divergence with respect to traits that simultaneously control the degree of local adaptation and nonrandom mating; and (iv) divergence with respect to other traits controlling survival and reproduction.