how can I found about ecological biomes?
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What is a Biome?\n\nA biome is a large geographical area of distinctive plant and animal groups, which are adapted to that particular environment. The climate and geography of a region determines what type of biome can exist in that region. Major biomes include deserts, forests, grasslands, tundra, and several types of aquatic environments. Each biome consists of many ecosystems whose communities have adapted to the small differences in climate and the environment inside the biome.\n\nAll living things are closely related to their environment. Any change in one part of an environment, like an increase or decrease of a species of animal or plant, causes a ripple effect of change in through other parts of the environment. \n\nThe earth includes a huge variety of living things, from complex plants and animals to very simple, one-celled organisms. But large or small, simple or complex, no organism lives alone. Each depends in some way on other living and nonliving things in its surroundings.
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I did some research... here are some websites that might help...\n\nThe 2nd one is a map quiz that will help you learn more about the physical features.
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In ecology, a biome is a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities best adapted to the region's physical natural environment, latitude, altitude and terrain factors. A biome is composed of the climax vegetation and all associated subclimax, or degraded, vegetation, fauna and soils, but can often be identified by the climax vegetation type.\n\nA fundamental classification of biomes is into:\n\nTerrestrial (or continental) biomes and \nAquatic biomes. \nBiomes are often given local names. For example, a Temperate grassland or shrubland biome is known commonly as steppe in central Asia, savanna or veld in southern Africa, prairie in North America, pampa in South America and outback in Australia.\n\nLatitude classification\nLatitude is a major climate-influencing factor determining biomes. There is a good correlation between the distribution of climates with latitude, and homogeneous vegetation bands. Another major factor is humidity. This can be illustrated by the fact that biodiversity increases away from the poles towards the equator, and increases with humidity. The most widely used classification of biomes is related to latitude (or temperature zoning) and humidity :
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try      terraserver.com
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There are many maps on this website, if this is not what you're looking for, trying typing "natural resources in California maps" into Google and see if something else suits your needs.
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Sorry, it looks like you have to go for extra credit.  There are 12 aquatic biomes.\n\nLook these up in Wikipedia...\n\nContinental Shelf\nIntertidal Zone\nRiparian\nPond\nCoral Reef\nKelp Forest\nPack Ice\nHydrothermal Vents\nCold Seeps\nBenthic Zone\nPelagic Zone\nNeritic Zone
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A biome is a climax ecosystem that is stable through time and characterizes a certain region. Biomes are described in terms of their physiognomy (=structure of the vegetation), and of course the types of plants that can grow anywhere depend on many factors, among them: 1) soil, 2) temperature, 3) precipitations, 4) other living beings. \nThe American botanist and ecologist Robert Whittaker was the first to come up with a diagram (now known as the Whittaker biome system) that summarized the effects of precipitations and temperature as the two major factors that determine the development of biomes, in 1975. \nSee different versions of this diagram at the links: \nhttp://www.msstate.edu/dept/biosciences/fishbein/whittaker.jpg\nhttp://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/whittaker.jpg\nhttp://raieh.homelinux.net/imgdb/B/Biome/WhittakerBiomeDiagram.gif\nThis diagram is a simple but good representation of the relationship between climate (Tº and precipitations) and biomes.
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Use google. Sometimes you can dig up a lot of useful info.
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this should get you started: http://animal.discovery.com/
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If you have the book and the chapter reference, look these up:\n- ecological niche\n- intraspecific competition\n- resource partitioning\n- competitive exclusion\n\nEverything will be clearer then.
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http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html
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This smells like schoolwork so I'll just leave a few leads. \nBiodiversity or biological diversity can be measured as:\n- species diversity\n- ecological diversity\n- genetic diversity\nEach has specific methodologies for conservation.\n\nConservation can be basically of two types: \n- in situ\n- ex situ.\n\nTry the web and also the book "Living in the environment" by G. Tyler Miller. It's probably available in your school library.
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Pure info site:\nhttp://www.thamel.com/htms/flora.htm\n\nTravel sites:\nhttp://www.nepaltravels.com/nepal/wildlife_adventures.htm\n\nhttp://www.21cep.com/nepal/npark.htm
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Try searching for nature sounds.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_and_subtropical_moist_broadleaf_forests\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_and_subtropical_dry_broadleaf_forests
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http://www.nps.gov/grsm/pphtml/nature.html\n\nHope this helps some
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try searching in the net. Just type "Biometrika tables", and you can find lots of reference books for it. \n\nI hope this helps..