Substrate (biology) 

In biology a substrate is the surface a plant or animal lives upon. The substrate can include biotic or abiotic materials. For example, encrusting algae that lives on a rock can be substrate for another animal that lives above the algae on the rock. See also substrate (marine biology).

Abiotic substrates

References

  1. ^ Cellulose substrate being used to grow plants

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