ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT BIOMES
Earth has many different combinations of environmental conditions, varying in temperature, moisture, light and other physical factors, that are characteristic of different regions. Each of this region or habitat has distinct life forms living in it, forming complex communities of interdependent orga...
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| Summary: | Earth has many different combinations of environmental conditions, varying in temperature, moisture, light and other physical factors, that are characteristic of different regions. Each of this region or habitat has distinct life forms living in it, forming complex communities of interdependent organisms. The major regional ecological communities of plants and animals that are well adapted to the physical environment of that region are referred as biomes. Each biome is, thus, characterized by a major vegetation type or life form of animals or some other identifying feature of landscape and named accordingly, for instance, tundra biome, grassland biome continental shelf ocean biome, coral reef biome etc. The world’s biomes can be grouped into two broad categories – terrestrial biomes and aquatic biomes. TERRESTRIAL BIOMES Terrestrial biomes are differentiated and recognized by predominant life form of climax vegetation. Thus the climax vegetation of grassland biome is grass, although the species vary topographically in different parts of the biomes and on different continents. However, a terrestrial biome is composed not only of the climax vegetation, but also of associated |
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