Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Object Groupings and Systems (hierarchy name)
4. object groupings
5. [object groupings by specific context]

Narrower term/s

• coastal environments
• aquatic environments[+]
  • marine environments
  • lacustrine environments
• microenvironments
• urban environments
• underground environments
• built environments (object groupings)
• paleoenvironments

Anotations

Scope note:

The aggregate of physical things, conditions, and influences surrounding and affecting an organism, object, or structure. For the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their habitat, use "ecology." For the earth's major animal and plant communities, use "biomes." For the concept of the perceived external world, including the forces at work in it and the nonhuman life inhabiting it, use "Nature."