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Terrestrial Ecosystems
| Terrestrial ecosystems are those ecosystems-a community of plants, animals, and microorganisms that are linked by energy and nutrient flows and that interact with each other and with the physical environment-that are land-based. The main broadly defined terrestrial ecosystems are tundra, taiga (boreal forests), tropical forests, temperate forests, deserts, and grasslands. |
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Keywords savanna, steppes, temperate grasslands, coastal deserts, semiarid deserts, hot and dry deserts, cold deserts, taiga, boreal forests, rain forests, arctic tundra, alpine tundra, biomes, bioregions, ecological function, tropical moist forests, tropical dry forests, rangeland | |
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