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biome

[bahy-ohm] / ˈbaɪ oʊm /
NOUN
large plant and animal community
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The hardest-hit biome last year was once again the Cerrado, a vast, biodiverse savanna south of the Amazon.

From Barron's May 27, 2026

The investment is so far concentrated in central Brazil’s Cerrado biome, a major producer of grains and cattle where deforestation has been rampant.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

Your gut biome is the holy grail of wellness, so it’s only natural us humans would want to find it, conquer it and aggressively exploit it.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 1, 2026

If I rigorously follow my new diet plan, he says, I could see a change to my gut biome "within a few weeks", he explains.

From BBC Jan. 12, 2026

She might be studying plants of the tundra biome when her mind questioned whether his teacher was calling him Henry, which he hated.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

The scale of the increase varied across the four different biomes surveyed, with the sharpest rise in tropical savannas.

From Barron's Jan. 6, 2026

They were able to draw inferences about the global climate on land, about productivity of different regions, and about characteristics of the various biomes of the Miocene compared to today.

From Salon Feb. 17, 2025

There is some disagreement in the scientific community over the question of how climate change will affect plant health and groundwater availability across a variety of biomes, with competing models and approaches providing different answers.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2024

"There are new cultures and settings and creatures, and new biomes," he said.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2024

The team utilized 57 years of inventory data -- spanning from 1958 to 2015 -- of dryland biomes in Canada, finding that climate warming does not adversely affect forests with resource-gaining characteristics.

From Science Daily Apr. 24, 2024



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