microenvironments

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noun
  1. 1

    A very small area that has different characteristics than its surroundings.

  2. 2

    The very small environment in the immediate vicinity of an organism.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/microenvironment, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/microenvironments