loading...| Preferred Name |
biome |
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| Synonyms |
major habitat type |
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| Definitions |
There has been some concern raised (see Issue #143) about the usefulness of the assertion that organisms have evolved within a given biome. They may have evolved adaptations elsewhere and demonstrating one or the other is often not feasible. Consider relabelling to "environmental system determined by an ecological community" or similar. A biome is an ecosystem to which resident ecological communities have evolved adaptations. |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000428 |
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| comment |
There has been some concern raised (see Issue #143) about the usefulness of the assertion that organisms have evolved within a given biome. They may have evolved adaptations elsewhere and demonstrating one or the other is often not feasible. Consider relabelling to "environmental system determined by an ecological community" or similar. |
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| has exact synonym |
major habitat type |
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LTER:809 |
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| hasDbXref |
EcoLexicon:biome |
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biome |
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| prefixIRI |
ENVO:00000428 |
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| prefLabel |
biome |
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| textual definition |
A biome is an ecosystem to which resident ecological communities have evolved adaptations. |
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