BIOMES

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Biomes are climatically delineated assemblages of organisms that have a characteristic appearance, and that are distributed over a wide land area. (Raven and Johnson, 1992)

Biomes can be classified in numerous ways. With reference to vegetation, the main biomes can be put into 7 categories:

Tropical Rain Forests

Savannas

Deserts

Temperate Grasslands

Temperate Deciduous Forests

Taiga

Tundra