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Habitats

Habitats

In the NatureSpots App, you can not only share photos of animals, plants and mushrooms, but you can also upload spots about habitats. A habitat is the term from ecology about a particular type of area, which is defined by its natural characteristics like e.g., a forest or the ocean.

Habitats occur in geographical regions and on planet earth, there are many types of habitats present. In the App, we cover a wide range of habitat types, from urban over grasslands to freshwater or mountains. Each habitat group has different sub-types of habitats for you to select. The complete list of habitats in the NatureSpots App is:

Urban & Gardens

  • Garden
  • Park
  • Sub-urbia
  • Urban
  • Brownfield land
  • Hedge / Flowerbed
  • Industrial
  • Transportation
  • Indoor
  • Zoo / Enclosure
  • Guerilla gardening 

Agriculture

  • Agricultural meadows
  • Crop cultivation
  • Pastures
  • Plantage
  • Vineyard
  • Indoor growing & Glass house
  • Garden agriculture
  • Permaculture

Grassland, Shrubs & Tundra

  • Natural Meadow (hygrophilous or tropophilous grassland) (FFH 6; Olson & Dinerstein 8)
  • Steppe (xerophilous grassland)
  • Shrubland & Heath (FFH 4)
  • Macchia (FFH 5)
  • Savannah (xerophilous grassland containing isolated trees) (Olson & Dinerstein 7)
  • Flooded grassland (Olson & Dinerstein 9)
  • Tundra (Olson & Dinerstein 11)

Forest (FFH 9)

  • Boreal forest (Olson & Dinerstein 6)
  • Temperate forest (Olson & Dinerstein 4, 5)
  • Riparian forest
  • Mediterranian forest (Olson & Dinerstein 12)
  • Tropical forest (Olson & Dinerstein 1, 2, 3)
  • Mangroves (Olson & Dinerstein 14)

Mountains & rocks (FFH 8)

  • Rock areas
  • Mountain meadows (Olson & Dinerstein 10)
  • Alpine tundra (Olson & Dinerstein 10)
  • Glacial ice
  • Caves

Dunes & Deserts

  • Rocky desert (Olson & Dinerstein 13)
  • Sandy desert (Olson & Dinerstein 13)
  • Dunes (FFH 2)
  • Xeric vegetation (Olson & Dinerstein 13)
  • Cold desert

Freshwater (FFH 3)

  • Spring
  • Pond
  • Lake
  • Stream
  • River
  • Swamp
  • Bog (Moore) (FFH 7)
  • Artificial freshwater

Marine & Coasts

  • Sandy coast (FFH 1)
  • Rocky coast (FFH 1)
  • Mudflat / Watt (FFH 1)
  • Brackish water
  • Shelf region
  • Open water
  • Coral reef
  • Oceanic island
  • Polar ice

Other habitats

  • Microscopic
  • Hot springs
  • Vulcanic
  • Endolithic
  • Tar pits
  • Hydrothermal vent

You can also enter a habitat manually if you do not find a fitting category. Different habitat types can have additonal information, like for example in types of forest you can specify if it is a broadleaf forest, a cornifer forest or a mixed forest.

Try it out and post some pictures about habitats you can find in your surroundings. Happy exploring!

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