World Biome Map. Make evidence-based claims for how human disturbances could have impacted biodiversity in different biomes A couple of tips for navigating this layer: 1) If a region is shaded entirely in the color representing a particular biome , it indicates that that biome is the predominant one, but there may be characteristics of other biomes present as well.
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Other parts of Earth's surface are clas-sified as mountains or ice caps What is a biome? A biome is a way to describe a large group of similar ecosystems
anthrome, climatogram, ecosystem, precipitation, rainfall, species, temperature, terrain, vegetation. This map layer represents those broader categories, like deserts and tropical forests Ecoregions are nested within two higher-order classifications: biomes (14) and biogeographic realms (8).
. Plant communities in the same biome can appear quite similar in structure but contain very different species. Ecoregions are nested within two higher-order classifications: biomes (14) and biogeographic realms (8).
. The biomes of Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub or sclerophyll forests shown on the map The terrestrial biome of "Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands", as defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.