Regions of similar climate and dominant plant types are called biomes. This chapter describes some of the major terrestrial biomes ... between 26–35% of the land surface of the Earth.

This graphic shows key events in the establishment of a land flora. These were the primordial ... Other lineages established themselves as extant terrestrial charophytes, here exemplified by ...

In fact, neither land plants nor terrestrial animals would exist them. “Fungi are absolutely remarkable chemists,” says McMaster University biochemistry professor Gerry Wright. Fungi produce ...

On land, many plants, such as legumes, form an intimate symbiotic relationship ... important part of the functioning of these communities.” W. Mohr et al., “Terrestrial-type nitrogen-fixing symbiosis ...