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, but while the subject of a habitat is a species or a population, the subject of a biotope is a biological community. It is 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 b… (More on Biotope)