Biota vs Fauna - What's the difference?
biota | fauna |
(biology) The living organisms of a region.
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, 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. }}
(uncountable) animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
(countable) a book, cataloguing the animals of a country etc.
As a noun biota
is (biology) the living organisms of a region.As a proper noun fauna is
(roman god) the goddess of animals, nature, spring and fertility; she is also the consort of faunus.biota
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