biota

See also: Biota

English

Ultimately from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos).

biota (plural biotas)

(ecology) The living organisms of a region.
- 2009 February 6, Andrew Z. Krug et al., “Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota”, in Science‎, volume 323, number 5915, DOI:10.1126/science.1164905, pages 767-771:
  Although the broad macroevolutionary consequences of mass extinctions are well known (as in the dinosaurs-mammals changeover), their long-term effects on the temporal and spatial dynamics of clades and biotas are rarely investigated.
Platycladus orientalis (syn. Biota orientalis, Oriental arborvitae).

the living organisms of a region

Chinese:
Mandarin: 生物群 (zh) (shēngwùqún), 生物相 (zh) (shēngwùxiāng), 地方生物誌, 地方生物志 (dìfāng shēngwùzhì)
Finnish: biota, eliöstö

biota f (plural biotas)

biota

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