Biological Communities: The Biome Concept Educational Goals Be familiar with: • How ecological communities are classified at the global scale • The significance of convergence • Reasons for basing the biome classification on dominant plant forms and climate • Walter’s climate classification • Whittaker’s biome classification
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Biological Communities: The Biome Concept
Educational Goals
Be familiar with:• How ecological communities are classified
at the global scale• The significance of convergence• Reasons for basing the biome
classification on dominant plant forms and climate