单词 | biome |
释义 | biomen. Ecology. The plant and animal community of a major climatic region or type of habitat.The most commonly used system of classification, originated by the World Wildlife Fund, lists such biomes as tundra, tropical moist forest, temperate coastal rivers, and numerous others. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > [noun] > type of ecosystem microcosm1887 biome1916 microcosm1934 agro-ecosystem1949 1916 F. E. Clements Plant Succession 319 Human evidence of past climates and biotic communities, or biomes, must come to be of very great value. 1931 Ecology 12 456 Because the larger and more influent animals tend to range throughout units of largest (formational) size including their seral stages, the biome or biotic formation is the natural ecological unit with some properties which are well illustrated by comparison with an organism. 1957 Encycl. Brit. VII. 434/2 A biome is based on the concept that the plants and animals associated together in the same area have a certain unity. The biome is thus a plant-plus-animal formation that is composed of a plant matrix together with all associated animals. 1983 W. R. Siegfried & T. M. Crowe in F. J. Kruger et al. Mediterranean-type Ecosystems xxi. 403 The Fynbos Biome..is characterized by four indigenous vegetation types: strandveld, coastal renosterveld, coastal fynbos and mountain fynbos. 2003 Jrnl. Paleontol. 77 692/2 The oldest reported bradoriids..occur in the earliest trilobitic part (Abadiella zone) of the Lower Cambrian of the West Yangtze biome of South China. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1916 |
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