Talk:Biome

Leading space
Hey everyone, I am thinking the Holdridge life zone classification scheme diagram could use some updating, such as capitalization and maybe a slightly reworded outline. Cheers70.26.201.121 (talk) 04:19, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

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. -- 66.153.24.xxx — Preceding undated comment added 15:21, 13 December 2001 ; Modified by, 15:43, 25 February 2002

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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)

New Image for article


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)

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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)

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)

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Added excerpt from effects of climate change on biomes
I've just added an excerpt from effects of climate change on biomes as I know that article was recently updated so should have good content in the lead. My suggestion is to move what is currently in the section about climate change (if it's any good) to the lead of effects of climate change on biomes and then to bring it back with the excerpt tool. - The same could be done at ecosystem by the way if we decide to keep the article effects of climate change on ecosystems (which we might not). Pinging User:InformationToKnowledge in case they don't have this article on their watchlist. EMsmile (talk) 20:53, 5 February 2024 (UTC)