Biomes - The Living Landscapes of Earth, Introduction To Biomes Of The World, Geodiode

Biomes - The Living Landscapes of Earth

When you look at pictures of the Earth from space, what’s the first thing that you see? A blue marble, as some have described it. A water world where oceans and swirls of white clouds dominate. But most of us will then have our attention drawn to the shapes imprinted on its surface – the continents. And they come in many colors. The white of Antarctica, the beige of the Sahara, the light green of grasslands, and the darker shades of our planet’s forests in their many forms.

So many of these colors that give the world its look are the result of trillions of individual plants growing upon the surface. Which plants grow where is determined by many factors, with the climate being the most dominant factor. Desert and scrubland, savannah, prairie and steppe, tundra and taiga, woodland and rainforest. They are at the base of almost every food chain of every animal – the habitats that sustain all other lifeforms, and ourselves. Collectively, they are known as biomes - the living landscapes of Earth.

In the first of a brand-new series, we are introduced to the concept of a biome, what it is, how it is that way, the factors that determine what plants grow in what area, and list out the Biomes to be studied in more detail in future episodes, including:

- Tropical Rainforest
- Savannah
- Shrubland or Scrub
- Desert
- Prairie and Steppe
- Deciduous Woodlands
- Boreal Forest or Taiga
- Tundra
- Highlands
- Wetlands

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[edanrocha]

Comi com isso olhos, bebi com os dedos, senti com a barriga mas abriguei todas as sensações na minha alma. Quando eu morrer quero levar comigo estas imagens.

[StuffandThings_]

I have a rather interesting video request: the extremes of each biome/climate classification. Like, what is the highest/lowest elevation, highest/lowest latitude, largest/smallest patch of each biome/climate, etc. Like, I'm _pretty_ sure the highest latitude tropical rainforest climate is in Bermuda, all the way in the mid '30's latitude, which is absolutely wild, and the highest elevation is in the Tepuis of the Guyana shield. But this information can be really scant, despite how interesting it is. Also, really obscure biomes like parts of coastal Norway which are almost an "arctic rainforest" of sorts, or cool summer Mediterranean in parts of the Cascades. All very obscure yet very interesting stuff I'm sure you could cover.