The arctic fox ( Vulpes lagopus, formerly known as Alopex lagopus ), also known as the white fox, polar fox or snow fox, is a small fox native to Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and is common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.

An ecosystem has many biotopes and a biome is a major habitat type.

For example, a temperate grassland or shrubland biome is known commonly as steppe in central Asia, prairie in North America, and pampas in South America.

Whittaker's distinction between biome and formation can be simplified: formation is used when applied to plant communities only, while biome is used when concerned with both plants and animals.

Each terrestrial ecoregion has a specific EcoID, format XXnnNN ( XX is the ecozone, nn is the biome number, NN is the individual number ).

Northern Côte d ' Ivoire is part of the West Sudanian Savanna ecoregion of the Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome.

A tropical savanna is a grassland biome located in semiarid to semi-humid climate regions of subtropical and tropical latitudes, with average temperatures remain at or above year round and rainfall between and a year.

It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate ( mild, wet winters and hot dry summers ) and wildfire, featuring summer drought-tolerant plants with hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves, as contrasted with the associated soft-leaved, drought deciduous, scrub community of Coastal sage scrub, found below the chaparral biome.

The Chaparral is a coastal biome with hot, dry summers and mild, rainy winters.

Climate determines the biome in which the ecosystem is embedded.

One such way is in terms of the " biome " in which they exist, combined with leaf longevity of the dominant species ( whether they are evergreen or deciduous ).

We are all ecologies in the sense that our ( human ) bodies contain gut bacteria, parasite species, etc., and to them our body is not organism but rather more of a microclimate or biome.

Maine is in the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome.

Taiga (; ; from Turkic or Mongolian ), also known as the boreal forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces and larches.

Taiga is the world's largest terrestrial biome.

The term " boreal forest " is sometimes, particularly in Canada but also in Scandinavia and Finland, used to refer to the more southerly part of the biome, while the term taiga is often used to describe the more barren areas of the northernmost part of the taiga approaching the tree line and the tundra biome.

It has been hypothesized by Serge Payette that the Spruce-Moss forest ecosystem was changed into the lichen woodland biome due to the initiation of two compounded strong disturbances: large fire and the appearance and attack of the spruce budworm.

Using six different climate model simulations, a large multi-university study of ocean ecosystems predicts, by 2050 A. D., " a global increase in primary production of 0. 7 % at the low end to 8. 1 % at the high end ," although with " very large regional differences " including " a contraction of the highly productive marginal sea ice biome by 42 % in the Northern Hemisphere and 17 % in the Southern Hemisphere.

Using six different climate model simulations, a large multi-university study of ocean ecosystems predicts, by 2050 A. D., " a global increase in primary production of 0. 7 % at the low end to 8. 1 % at the high end ," although with " very large regional differences " including " a contraction of the highly productive marginal sea ice biome by 42 % in the Northern Hemisphere and 17 % in the Southern Hemisphere.

The word is used in at least three senses: ( 1 ) most broadly to refer to the habitat and entire plant assemblage or mangal, for which the terms mangrove forest biome, mangrove swamp and mangrove forest are also used, ( 2 ) to refer to all trees and large shrubs in the mangrove swamp, and ( 3 ) narrowly to refer to the mangrove family of plants, the Rhizophoraceae, or even more specifically just to mangrove trees of the genus Rhizophora.

* coniferous forest-is a land biome, or large section of land

Nestled in the Overberg, one can find the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve ( recognised and registered with UNESCO ) populated with a large diversity of flowering plants not found anywhere else in the fynbos biome.

Aspen parkland refers to a very large area of transitional biome between prairie and boreal forest in two sections ; the Peace River Country of northwestern Alberta crossing the border into British Columbia, and a much larger area stretching from central Alberta, all across central Saskatchewan to south central Manitoba near the United States border.

Prairies ( or ) are considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.

The island is part of the tundra world biome, which has extremely cold winters.

They are part of the montane grasslands and shrublands biome and also constitute tundra.

* Mediterranean savannas are mid-latitude savannas in Mediterranean climate regions, with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, part of the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome.

* Montane savannas are high-altitude savannas, located in a few spots around the world's high mountain regions, part of the montane grasslands and shrublands biome.

It is part of the Deserts and xeric shrublands biome and the Palearctic ecozone.

The Tigris – Euphrates river system is part of the palearctic Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh ecoregion, in the flooded grasslands and savannas biome, located in West Asia.

Prairies are considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.

Puszta () is a grassland biome on the Great Hungarian Plain ( Alföld ) around the River Tisza in the eastern part of Hungary as well as on the western part of Hungary and in the Austrian Burgenland.

Kommetjie is also part of the fynbos biome, which boasts the highest number of plant species per square kilometre.

The sky islands are the northernmost of the Madrean pine-oak woodlands, and are classified as part of the Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests ecoregion, of the tropical and subtropical coniferous forests biome.

The area is part of the aspen parkland biome.

The area is part of the aspen parkland biome.

The countryside around Birch Hills is part of the aspen parkland biome.

The Gargano peninsula is partly covered by the remains of an ancient forest, Foresta Umbra, the only remaining part in Italy of the ancient oak and beech forest that once covered much of Central Europe as well as the Apennine deciduous montane forests biome.

The endolithic biome, consisting entirely of microscopic life in rock pores and cracks, kilometers beneath the surface, has only recently been discovered, and does not fit well into most classification schemes.

Starting from about 3 mya a single biome established itself from South Africa through the rift, North Africa, and across Asia to China, which has been called " transcontinental ' savannahstan '" recently.

The urban environment has been classified as an anthropogenic biome, which is characterized by the predominance of certain species and climate trends such as urban heat island across many urban areas.

* dry woodland-a type of biome that forms when rainfall is averaging around 40 to 100 centimeters, and also has many tall trees

This region, above the Arctic Circle, is dominated by the tundra biome and has areas with few natural landmarks.

Most of the aspen parkland, like the prairie biome, has been extensively altered by agriculture over the last 100 years since settlement first began in the late 19th Century.

Suideroord has the most unforgiving dessert biome located in some guy's back garden.

The Zoo plans to include giraffes, cheetahs, hornbills, antelope and ostriches in this biome, which will join the zebras and rhinos that the Zoo already has.

Another concern raised by opponents is preservation of the coastal sage scrub biome that has developed over time on the protected land around the lake.