O conceito de bioma
By L. M. Coutinho. 2006
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The biome concept). The terms phytophysiognomy and formation were proposed practically at the same time. The term biome, proposed later, only added the element fauna to the phytophysiognomic and climatic uniformity of the formation concept. Several conceptual modifications have been presented by a number of authors along time, adding other environmental factors to the original concept of biome, as soil for example. Walter proposed an essentially ecological concept, considering biome as an area of uniform environment, belonging to a zonobiome, which is defined by the climatic zone where it is found. This concept takes into consideration other important ecological factors, as altitude and soil, which then constitute orobiomes and pedobiomes. Another factor to be considered is natural fire (pyrobiomes). Biome and morphoclimatic and phytogeographical domain are not synonyms, since the latter does not necessarily have a uniform environment. The tropical savanna biome is a complex of phytophysiognomies, a complex of formations, which represents a gradient of ecologically related biomes, reason enough to consider this complex as a biological unit.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Social Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- Nutritional adaptations of native plants of the cerrado biome in acid soils (2008, background): “these soils support are excluded from the concept of cerrado biome by Coutinho (1978, 2006) .”
- Tree species of South America central savanna: endemism, marginal areas and the relationship with other biomes (2016, background): “This is the main vegetation across the Cerrado (Coutinho 2006).”