The biome concept organizes large-scale ecological variation. Terrestrial biomes are distinguished primarily by their predominant vegetation, and are mainly determined by temperature and rainfall. Aa ...

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Under Desert Types, you learn about aridity and deserts all over the world. In Desert Study, you can play Build-a-Desert, where you have to create a delicately balanced ecosystem, plus learn about how ...

It is also one of the first to conduct experiments to compare different types of a single urban landscape form (residential yards), Lerman says. Overall, the study found that desert-like, "xeric" ...