Aquatic Biomes
Title: Aquatic Biomes
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Aquatic Biomes
Category: /Recreation & Sports
Details: Words: 1747 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
By definition, biomes are major regional groups of distinctive plant, and animal communities best adapted to the region's physical natural environment, latitude, altitude and terrain factors. A biome is also 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 climax vegetation type ("Biome" 1). This means there can be dozens of different biomes in the world all characterized by various
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