The human impact on nature is a major driver of biodiversity loss and restricted ecosystem functioning and services. Assessing such global changes is often done by using biomes as benchmarks. However, ...

KS2 Geography. Biomes. A short video for pupils aged 7 to 11 investigating two of Earth's major biomes - rainforests and ...

Animals such as owls, red deer and badgers live in these forests. The characteristics of global biomes are determined by several factors. Latitude close latitudeImaginary lines that run east to ...

This chapter describes some of the major terrestrial biomes in the world; tropical forests, savannas, deserts, temperate grasslands, temperate deciduous forests, Mediterranean scrub, coniferous ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth. Huge volcanoes erupted, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon ...

World types are a feature that allows them to choose the type of setting with which the instance will be created — offering options like superflat, amplified, and large biomes. Large biomes are ...