biota
noun [ U or plural ] environment specialized uk/baɪˈəʊ.tə/ us/baɪˈoʊ.t̬ə/
生物群，某地区（或时期）的动植物
the animals and plants living in a particular place, time, or habitat (= one type of natural environment)
Scientists will try to determine what effects the chemical pollutants have on soil biota. 科学家们将尝试确定化学污染物对土壤生物群有什么影响。
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- One issue is the possible transfer of foreign biota to other rivers and lakes affected by the outlet.
- Fragile flora and river biota can be unwittingly destroyed in the zeal to experience the great outdoors.
- More than half of the large mammal biota of the Americas disappeared in a cataclysmic extinction wave at the very end of the Pleistocene Era.
- He instantly loved Madagascar's warm, Afro-Asian culture and exotic biota.
- A 2015 biota study found no major invasive species in the lake.