A biome is an ecosystem to which resident ecological communities have evolved adaptations. [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2041-1480-4-43 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biome ]
Synonyms: major habitat type
Term information
- EcoLexicon:biome
There has been some concern raised (see Issue #143) about the usefulness of the assertion that organisms have evolved within a given biome. They may have evolved adaptations elsewhere and demonstrating one or the other is often not feasible. Consider relabelling to "environmental system determined by an ecological community" or similar.
Term relations
- ecosystem
- has component min 2 habitat
- part of some biosphere
- has part some habitat
- determined by some ecological community