The world’s major communities, classified according to the predominant vegetation and characterized by adaptations of organisms to that particular environment. Land biomes area: forests (41 × 106 km2), grasslands (30 × 106 km2), savannas/woodlands (17 × 106 km2), deserts (30 × 106 km2), crop fields (17 × 106 km2), wetland (7 × 106 km2).
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(2011). Biomes. In: Gliński, J., Horabik, J., Lipiec, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Agrophysics. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3585-1_534
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