Book contents
- Comparative Plant Succession among Terrestrial Biomes of the World
- Ecology, Biodiversity, and Conservation
- Comparative Plant Succession among Terrestrial Biomes of the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Plant Succession and Biomes
- 2 Humans and Succession
- 3 Terrestrial Biomes
- Part II Succession by Disturbance Type
- Part III Synthesis
- Book part
- References
- Index
3 - Terrestrial Biomes
from Part I - Plant Succession and Biomes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 May 2020
Book contents
- Comparative Plant Succession among Terrestrial Biomes of the World
- Ecology, Biodiversity, and Conservation
- Comparative Plant Succession among Terrestrial Biomes of the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Plant Succession and Biomes
- 2 Humans and Succession
- 3 Terrestrial Biomes
- Part II Succession by Disturbance Type
- Part III Synthesis
- Book part
- References
- Index
Summary
In this chapter, we present an introductory description of the particular biomes, providing a background to the patterns of succession. Our primary sources for information about the world biomes were Archibold (1995) and Breckle (2002), and for North America, Barbour and Billings (2000). We use the term biome in a broad sense as a widely distributed ecosystem characterized by vegetation with similar life forms and with occurrence, structure, and functioning of the biome largely determined by macroclimate and seasonality.
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