Talk:Biome
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ah! any leading space on the left margin converts to ugly-font (whatever the technical term is). What you want are multiple asterisk for different bullets.
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The new entry on Ecoregions updates the science of this entry. Biome may not be a technical term in ecology any more - or may describe the large ecological zones roughly equivalent to the continents. Source check required.
- If it's WWF ecoregions you are talking about, they tesselate neatly into the superset of WWF biomes (not the same as realms). The map from WWF is just one biome map, but its being used quite widely for global ecological analysis, I suspect because it 'feels' right and because its' freely available. --Flit 22:03, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Australians call it 'the Bush', not 'the outback'
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[edit] Models
Hello, I'm a french user of wiki (:
If you are interested to import models and maps about the biomes tape a loop at fr:Biome
I won't permit myself to touch all of your articles Tvpm 16:31, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Replace climax with steady state
Because climax is an obsolete term, I propose replacing the following:
In ecology, a biome is a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities best adapted to the region's physical natural environment, latitude, altitude and terrain factors. A biome is composed of the climax vegetation and all associated subclimax, or degraded, vegetation, fauna and soils, but which can often be identified by association with the climax vegetation type.
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In ecology, a biome is a major regional group of distinctive plant, and animal communities best adapted to the region's physical natural environment, latitude, altitude and terrain factors. A biome is composed of communities at stable steady state and all associated transitional, disturbed, or degraded, vegetation, fauna and soils, but can often be identified by the steady state vegetation type.
I am assuming here that biome remains a useful, technically valid, term. If not, it is best to revise the current wording differently than I have suggested. -- Paleorthid 13:35, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Fixed some vandalism. Hopefully, someone who knows the subject can fix the entry. --81.174.244.104 00:27, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Map ?
What this article really needs is a map of the biomes. Can somebody provide one? Freederick 14:47, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Abiotic factors
added brief section and a link KonaScout 15:21, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
- I aggressively edited your entry, partly thinking it needed such to avoid copyvio. But I was too hasty: The copyright notification reads: All text is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. This is fully compatible with GFDL. I won't object to reverting any protion of my contribution if it seems to detract readibility. Thanks for pointing to a great resource for further contributions to Wikipedia! -- Paleorthid 16:25, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Biomes vs. Ecozones
This article needs to explain how biomes differ from ecozones. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by P199 (talk • contribs) 16:04, 15 December 2006 (UTC).
The ecozone page explains it -- biomes are about similar kinds of landscapes and habitats regardless of the specific plant and animal species, while ecozones distinguish between different species and evolutionary history (the study of biogeography). Pfly 23:19, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Question from Biome template page Template talk:Biome
[edit] Order of Biomes
Now, I'm no oceanographer, but judging from the Riparian zone article, it appears to me that it more properly belongs in the Terrestrial biomes category, rather than Aquatic biomes. Can you explain why you listed it there?
Also, I think it would be useful to list the various biomes in some kind of order. Of course, it's possible that you did and I just don't know enough about it to recognize the order!
I'm interested in hearing your thoughts! Thanks for creating a LOVELY template! ~ Mpwrmnt 08:09, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
- Can someone explain this? It could probably be put in the article, also, the answer. KP Botany 15:01, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Whats a BIOME??
[edit] WWF "Major Habitat Types"
I can't find anything (in this article or elsewhere) on what criteria are used to define the WWF's "major habitat types" (biomes), or what other classification system it's based on. —Pengo 03:36, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Template
Can we consider revising and reintroducing the biome template that I created some time ago? I think that it would be useful to have some sort of way of navigating through the various biomes. I know that I rather briskly introduced it beforehand, but I feel that with some improvement, it could really work (I know it’s rather massive!) Cheers! Max Naylor 19:39, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
