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bing.com/imagesFrom Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In ecology, a biome is a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities best adapted to the region's physical natural environment, latitude, elevation, and terrain.simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biome- People also ask
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A biome is a biogeographical unit consisting of a biological community that has formed in response to the physical environment in which they are found and a shared regional climate. Biomes may span more than one continent. Biome is a broader term than habitat and can comprise a variety of habitats. … See more
The term was suggested in 1916 by Clements, originally as a synonym for biotic community of Möbius (1877). Later, it gained its current definition, based on earlier concepts of phytophysiognomy, formation See more
Marine biomes
Pruvot (1896) zones or "systems":
• Littoral zone
• Pelagic zone See more• Climate classification – Systems that categorize the world's climates
• Ecotope – Smallest ecologically distinct landscape features in a landscape mapping and classification system
• Life zone – Concept was developed by C. Hart Merriam in 1889 See more• University of California Museum of Paleontology Berkeley's The World's Biomes
• Gale/Cengage Biome Overview See moreTo divide the world into a few ecological zones is difficult, notably because of the small-scale variations that exist everywhere on earth and because of the gradual changeover from one biome to the other. Their boundaries must therefore be drawn arbitrarily … See more
Climate change has the potential to greatly alter the distribution of Earth's biomes. Meaning, biomes around the world could change so much that they would be at risk of becoming new biomes entirely. General frequency models have been a staple in finding out the … See more
• Ritter, Michael E. (2005). The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography. University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. See more
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