These grasslands make up the largest biome in North America.

原构成了北美最大群落。

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

因此，是地球上非常重要群落，而且大多数是未知。

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

比如，想想水或水基群落。

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

植几乎是每一个群落主要组成部分。

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

然而，是要付出代价。几乎一半原始群已经被摧毁。

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

在世界14个受保护群落和栖息地中，温带地保护水平最低。

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

从不利一面来看，山脉存在只会扩大之前发展沙漠和丛林群落不利因素。

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

她指出，结核是一个大致相当于亚马逊雨林大小群落核心部分。

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群落之一，有超过百分之九十森林被砍伐和破坏。

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

每个群落都包含多个态系统，除了最寒冷北极地区外，所有地区都由植支撑。

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

是我们每天都在肚子里携带巨大群落。

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群落。

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

个奇怪、黑暗而广阔世界是我们在本系列中将要研究最后一个群系。

A new biomed IPO out of Boston.

一支波士顿医药Ipo股。

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

发现新方块， 新群落， 新看待世界方式。

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

好吧，就更好了——群落，态学家用来描述不同地区植命最大单位。

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

它由不同态区域或群落组成，群落适应特定气候条件。

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

在海岸附近，珊瑚礁是个群落一部分。

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

淡水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.

以温带森林群系树木为例。