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plural biotas
(ecology) The living organisms of a region. quotations
Although the broad macroevolutionary consequences of mass extinctions are well known (as in the dinosaurs-mammals changeover), their long-term effects on the temporal and spatial dynamics of clades and biotas are rarely investigated.
2009 February 6, Andrew Z. Krug et al., “Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, pages 767–771
A coniferous tree, Oriental arborvitae (Platycladus orientalis (syn. Biota orientalis). examples