These grasslands make up the largest biome in North America.

这些草原构成了北美最大的生物群落。

So this is now a really significant biome on earth, and it's largely unknown.

因此，这是地球上非重要的生物群落，而且大多数是未知的。

Like, think about an aquatic — or water-based — biome.

比如，想想水生或水基生物群落。

And plants are a major part of nearly every single biome.

植物几乎是每一个生物群落的主要组成。

That came at a price, however. Almost half of the original biome has been destroyed.

然而，这是要付出代价的。几乎一半的原始生物群已经被摧毁。

Temperate grasslands have the lowest level of protection of the world's 14 recognised “biomes”, or habitats.

在世界14个受保护的生物群落和栖息地中，温带草地的保护水平最低。

On the bad side, the presence of mountains only amplifies the previous negatives with developing desert and jungle biomes.

从不利的一面来看，山脉的存在只会扩大之前发展沙漠和丛林生物群落的不利因素。

The nodules are a core part of a biome roughly the size of the Amazon rain forest, she notes.

她指出，这些结核是一个大致相当于亚马逊雨林大小的生物群落的核心。

The Atlantic rainforest is one of the planet's most threatened biomes, more than 90 percent of it was deforested and destroyed.

大西洋雨林是地球上受威胁最严重的生物群落之一，有超过百之九十的森林被砍伐和破坏。

Each biome contains multiple ecosystems, and all but the most frigid arctic regions are supported by plants.

每个生物群落都包含多个生态系统，除了最寒冷的北极地区外，所有地区都由植物支撑。

This is a huge biome that we carry in our bellies every single day.

这是我们每天都在肚子里携带的巨大生物群落。

They're only a few meters thick, but they support all agriculture and every single terrestrial biome.

它们只有几米厚，但它们支撑着所有农业和每一个陆地生物群落。

This strange, dark and vast world is the final biome we'll look at in this  series.

这个奇怪、黑暗而广阔的世界是我们在本系列中将要研究的最后一个生物群系。

A new biomed IPO out of Boston.

一支波士顿的生物医药Ipo股。

To discover new blocks, new biomes, new ways of looking at the world.

发现新的方块， 新的生物群落， 新的看待世界的方式。

Okay, that's better — with biomes, the largest units that ecologists use to describe the plant life of different locations.

好吧，这就更好了——生物群落，生态学家用来描述不同地区植物生命的最大单位。

It's made up of different ecological regions, or biomes, where communities of organisms are adapted to specific climate conditions.

它由不同的生态区域或生物群落组成，生物群落适应特定的气候条件。

Near the coasts, coral reefs are part of this biome.

在海岸附近，珊瑚礁是这个生物群落的一。

Freshwater biomes include rivers and streams, ponds and lakes, and wetlands.

淡水生物群落包括河流和溪流、池塘和湖泊以及湿地。

Take the trees of the temperate forest biome.

以温带森林生物群系的树木为例。