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Biome vs Biota - What's the difference?

biome | biota |

As nouns the difference between biome and biota

is that biome is any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert while biota is the living organisms of a region.

biome

English

(wikipedia biome)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert.

    • Derived terms

    * microbiome

    biota

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) The living organisms of a region.
  • * {{quote-journal, 2009, date=February 6, Andrew Z. Krug et al., Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota, Science citation
    • , passage=Although the broad macroevolutionary consequences of mass extinctions are well known (as in the dinosaurs-mammals changeover), their long-term effects on the temporal and spatial dynamics of clades and biotas are rarely investigated. }}