Biotope's an area of uniform environmental conditions providing a living place for a specific assemblage of plants and animals. Biotope's almost synonymous with the term habitat, but while the subject of a habitat's a species or a population, the subject of a biotope's a biological community. It's an English loanword derived from the German "", which in turn came from the Greek bios='life' or 'organism' and topos='place'. (The related word geotope has made its way into the English language by t… (More on Biotope)