英语词汇“biome”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

biome

释义

biome Ecol.|ˈbaɪəʊm|
[f. Gr. βίος life + -ome.]
A biotic community of plants and animals; spec. such a community in a prehistoric period.
1916F. E. Clements Plant Succession 319 Human evidence of past climates and biotic communities, or biomes, must come to be of very great value.1918― in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. XXIX. 372 In paleo-ecology the concept of the biome, or biotic community, seems to have peculiar value, as it directs special attention to the causal relations and reactions of the three elements—habitat, plant, and animal.Ibid. 374 Climatic changes and biotic movements..are involved in..the appearance of new biomes and the disappearance of preceding ones.1931Ecology XII. 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.1935Ibid. XVI. 399 Migratory species..are frequently seasonal influents classed in seasonal communities in two biomes.1957G. Clark Archæol. & Society (ed. 3) vi. 175 All the forms of life, including man himself, that together constitute the biome.1957Encycl. 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.

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