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Local life forms, collectively
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biota
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A biota is the total collection of organisms of a geographic region or a time period, from local geographic scales and instantaneous temporal scales all the way up to whole-planet and whole-timescale spatiotemporal scales. The biotas of the Earth make up ...
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n. all the plant and animal life of a particular region [syn: biology ]
Usage examples of biota.
Hillis described the biota, speaking just loud enough for the patch recorder on his collar to pick up and record.
Time was, Vanda had been the main base solely for Space Recon and the giant corporate enterprises feeding on it: Biotime, Timeco, Alpha One, those gallant companies of exploration, mining the galaxy for biota, bringing home the green.
Precursors had played a stupendous prank on themthe biota of Desideratum were derivatives or forerunners of those on Agora.
Human beings could eat that predator if they wanted to, and most of its prey, and a lot of the biota in general .
The probe subsequently strongly suggested but could not confirm the presence on the two main land masses of a biota of consequence.
His specialized internal biota seem more closely related to the kinds of organisms one would be likely to encounter in the vicinity of the equator.
The rest of his remarkable internal biota seems not only benign, but quite healthy.
I figure their systems have to be used to whatever biota will develop by the time they reach Crete.
I populated an entire planet of our closest stellar neighbor with a complete Mesozoic biota.
The exhibits were devoted to Europan biota, most of which depended on the ecological niches of the hydrothermal vents, carefully reproduced here.
The biota of Mingulay, like that of all the other Earthlike planets of the Second Sphere, shared a common terrestrial ancestry but had, over megayears, diverged in unique and interesting ways.
Haraldson’s edicts cover destruction of biotas, but killing the Timmys didn’t kill the biota.
Haraldson's edicts cover destruction of biotas, but killing the Timmys didn't kill the biota.
For that reason, races, biotas and civilizations consistently collapse here-and stars keep exploding.
Borazjani was a small dark-skinned white-haired man, speaking with a pointer before a large screen, which was now showing video images of the various heating methods that had been tried: black dust and lichen on the poles, the orbiting mirrors that had sailed out from Luna, the moholes, the greenhouse gas factories, the ice asteroids burning up in the atmosphere, the denitrifying bacteria, and then all the rest of the biota.