1 Global warming spells danger for Earth's biomes, which in turn play an important role in climate change. On the following pages, you will read about some of the specific changes, from fruit flies to ...

The tropical forest biome is estimated to contain over half of the terrestrial species on Earth. Approximately 170,000 of the 250,000 described species of vascular plants occur in tropical biomes.

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

The polar bear is top of the food chain here although melting ice due to climate change is threatening the balance of this biome. At the other end of the Earth, the Antarctic Polar region has the ...

and how life has interacted with Earth systems throughout its history. Students will become familiar with the biomes of the world, ecological processes within those biomes, the biological communities ...

They combined a map of Earth's geography at that time with plant fossil data, assigning plant genera to six major biomes to estimate what the local climate looked like in different places based on ...

20, No. 1, Feb., 2000 A Simulation of Biomes on the Tibetan Pl... The improved process-based equilibrium terrestrial biosphere model (BIOME3China) was run under the present climate to model the ...