Biota (ecology)

Biota (ecology)

Biota is the total collection of organisms of a geographic region or a time period, from local geographic scales and instantaneous temporal scales all the way up to whole-planet and whole-timescale spatiotemporal scales. The biota of the Earth lives in the biosphere.

ee also

*Biome
*Fauna
*Flora
*Fungi
*Biota (taxonomy)


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