Biome | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 20/01/2019

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biome


00:01:18 1 History of the concept
00:03:48 2 Classifications
00:05:31 2.1 Holdridge (1947, 1964) life zones
00:06:24 2.2 Allee (1949) biome-types
00:07:01 2.3 Kendeigh (1961) biomes
00:07:57 2.4 Whittaker (1962, 1970, 1975) biome-types
00:08:48 2.4.1 Key definitions for understanding Whittaker's scheme
00:10:13 2.4.2 Whittaker's parameters for classifying biome-types
00:12:52 2.4.3 Biome-types
00:14:38 2.5 Goodall (1974-) ecosystem types
00:15:08 2.6 Walter (1976, 2002) zonobiomes
00:16:08 2.7 Schultz (1988) ecozones
00:17:03 2.8 Bailey (1989) ecoregions
00:20:30 2.9 Olson &amp; Dinerstein (1998) biomes for WWF / Global 200
00:21:34 2.9.1 Biogeographic realms (terrestrial and freshwater)
00:22:20 2.9.2 Biogeographic realms (marine)
00:23:06 2.9.3 Biomes (terrestrial)
00:24:54 2.9.4 Biomes (freshwater)
00:25:54 2.9.5 Biomes (marine)
00:26:23 2.9.6 Summary of the scheme
00:28:15 3 Other biomes
00:28:25 3.1 Marine biomes
00:29:35 3.2 Anthropogenic biomes
00:31:07 3.3 Microbial biomes
00:31:17 3.3.1 Endolithic biomes



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A biome  is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in. They can be found over a range of continents. Biomes are distinct biological communities that have formed in response to a shared physical climate.  "Biome" is a broader term than "habitat"; any biome can comprise a variety of habitats.
While a biome can cover large areas, a microbiome is a mix of organisms that coexist in a defined space on a much smaller scale.  For example, the human microbiome is the collection of bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms that are present on or in a human body.A 'biota' is the total collection of organisms of a geographic region or a time period, from local geographic scales and instantaneous temporal scales all the way up to whole-planet and whole-timescale spatiotemporal scales. The biotas of the Earth make up the biosphere.