0 a region of the earth's surface and the particular combination of climate (= general type of weather), plants, and animals that are found in it: --
Tropical rainforest is a very complex biome.
1 a region of the Earth's surface and the particular combination of weather conditions, plants, and animals that are found in it --
There are a number of biomes, such as forests, deserts, grasslands, and jungles.
The area is semiarid, receiving less than 20 in of rain annually; this rainfall supports the shortgrass prairie biome originally present in the area.
Whilst some biome reconstructions are speculative, they greatly help to conceptualize the ecophysiology of ancient plant communities, and will certainly provide an enormous stimulus for new research.
Food selection by elephants in the miombo biome, in relation to leaf chemistry.
In their portrayals, the reserve's rainforests appear as a vast resource domain, a biome of incredible richness, and a source of intellectual insights awaiting wide-eyed scientists.
Site holds species whose distributions are largely restricted to one biome.
The subarctic forest-tundra: the structure of a biome in a changing climate.
Parent plants were not confined to any particular biome type, occurring in areas characterized by seasonal dry spells.
