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Soil Biomes

  • Glossary item | 20 Mar 2025

A community of organisms living together and essentially typical of a particular climatic region on land or sea. Specific soil types or associations develop in, and are characteristic of, the terrestrial biomes.

Bache, B., Chesworth, W., Chesworth, W. (2008). Biomes and their Soils. In: Chesworth, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Soil Science. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3995-9_64

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