Describing Aquatic Biomes
Aquatic  Biomes
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Aquatic biomes

  

Describing Aquatic Biomes

Themap illustrated here shows one way of mapping aquaticbiomes.

  • How easy is it to describe and classifyaquatic biomes compared to terrestrial biomes?
  • What are the abiotic factors that might influence the distribution of freshwater and marine biomes?

As an exercise, you should list the biomes illustrated andproduce your own catalogue of aquatic biomes by adding diagnostic features, such as:

  • heirdistribution;
  • theirform and structure;
  • the abiotic factors (climate, soil type etc.) associated with them;
  • theircharacteristic andunique species;
  • their level of species diversity;
  • the specificenvironmental threats they may face.