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 biota of the Earth lives in the biosphere.

[edit] See also

• Biome
• Fauna
• Flora
• Fungi
• Microbiota
• Biota (taxonomy)

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