Talk:Biome

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ah! any leading space on the left margin converts to ugly-font (whatever the technical term is). What you want are multiple asterisk for different bullets. ---

The new entry on Ecoregions updates the science of this entry. Biome may not be a technical term in ecology any more - or may describe the large ecological zones roughly equivalent to the continents. Source check required.

- If it's WWF ecoregions you are talking about, they tesselate neatly into the superset of WWF biomes (not the same as realms). The map from WWF is just one biome map, but its being used quite widely for global ecological analysis, I suspect because it 'feels' right and because its' freely available. --Flit 22:03, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

CAN SOMEONE MAKE A MAP OF THE WORLD WITH COLOR CODED AREAS CORRESPONDING TO EACH OF THE Biomes? THIS WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL FOR ALL -karl selm, kfwselm@earthlink.net some maps of the WWF are for open use but the geographic format, Beacuse guess what peppa pig is under your bed......theheheheh

--Chris.urs-o (talk) 22:11, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

I think 'habitat' should be replaced with 'biotope' - see the Wikipedia entries for these terms 84.213.44.136 (talk) 05:27, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

This article needs a higher-quality version of its lead image

The one currently in use is of very poor quality, to the point where a number of the legend descriptions cannot be read. 96.28.39.103 (talk) 13:08, 10 March 2016 (UTC)  Done I noticed that myself, and just changed the image to something superior we already had on commons. Snow ^{let's rap} 02:18, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

biomes are homes for diverse species — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.198.118.237 (talk) 12:09, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

So is biome and ecosystem the same or not?

I am currently working on the article on ecosystems. I came to this article and find it doesn't explain clearly anywhere what the difference is between biome and ecosystem. E.g. there is this sentence here "The multiauthored series Ecosystems of the world, edited by David W. Goodall, provides a comprehensive coverage of the major "ecosystem types or biomes" on earth" - seems to imply that ecosystem and biome is the same? Is it? EMsmile (talk) 02:59, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 December 2018

z 175.101.12.121 (talk) 06:03, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Sam Sailor 10:44, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

New Image for article

A high resolution PNG adapted from Terpsichores's SVG map of the world's biomes according to the WWF (found here - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biomes_of_the_world.svg). I have gone through it and cleaned up the image where necessary to provide a high resolution, accurate, and worthy adaptation of the original map as made by Terpsichores.

Hello, a few days ago I found this article and thought the lead image to be a very interesting and informative graphic. I downloaded it to get a closer view but I found that when rendered as a raster image there was quite a lot of blurring and corruption. I took the time to clean up the image and make some minor changes (e.g. drawing more mangrove wetland areas where they are found in the world, and rendering a more accurate East Coast and Great Lakes regions of the USA).

I'm not sure how to convert the file to SVG format, I have tried to do so with Inkscape but it always comes out looking wrong. To my understanding the original SVG graphic made by Terpsichores has a superior level of detail at least as far as various fjord-lined coasts go, but when rendered as a PNG it has a noticeable decline in quality that I sought to rectify in my adaptation. If my retouching of the image is a more accessible and easily readable version of the map, I am tossing it out here for potential inclusion in this article. I won't make the change myself because I'm not sure whether it is a superior replacement of the one present in the article now, but I'll post it here to get hopefully a second opinion on the matter. Thank you. ADMelnick (talk) 23:45, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

All of the sections (conflicting with the more recent and widely accepted Olson et al. categorization) of the original map have been fixed. It wasn't an easy task, had to be edited pixel by pixel over a very long period of time (almost a year), but for the sake of keeping the simplistic and easy to read map for reader, it has been worth it. Berkserker (talk) 08:48, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

colors do not match on map

The colors are different in the key vs the colored-in areas on the map. confirmed with gimp color picker tool. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.77.44.40 (talk) 09:57, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Colors not matching issue has also been fixed. Berkserker (talk) 08:49, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Vector version of the map

There is a vector version available, why isn't it being used?

File:Biomes_of_the_world.svg

VectorizeEverything (talk) 01:47, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Good call, I'll swap the current one with the vector version. Although lakes and oceans could use a different color to make it easier to distinguish from desert regions. It might get confusing for some, especially with places like East Africa, where several small desertic regions and lakes are rather difficult to tell apart. It is also worth mentioning that Global 200 uses a slightly different version of the same map, with certain temperate coniferous regions being classified as temperate grasslands. Might be worth including both versions in the article. Berkserker (talk) 10:41, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Rainfall

Okay ke 41.115.120.200 (talk) 16:29, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Is the lead image in this article following any particular biome/ecoregion classification?

I've been attempting to track down how the lead image was made, how regions like "tree savannah" are defined in the source material, and if any equirectangular examples following the format exist. Thus far, the only source for the image I've found is a paper atlas in Finnish. Is it following one particular set of standards (Koppen, Allee, etc.) or is it entirely freehand? If it does follow one particular standard, which is it, and can it be included in the caption instead of the vague "One way of mapping terrestrial (land) biomes around the world" the article currently uses? TheLazyBot (talk) 06:51, 26 July 2022 (UTC)