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.

(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotope)

The related concept in a Social Order is Sociotope and in a Techno Order it is a Technotope.