<p>I guess it depends on which biome classification you use (there are several), but yes, usually tropical forests of Amazonia, Africa &amp; Asia are classified within the same biome. For instance if you take the WWF classification made by <a href="https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051%5B0933:TEOTWA%5D2.0.CO;2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Olson et al. (2001)</a>, which has 14 terrestrial biomes, they all fall in the &quot;Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests&quot; biome, in green in their figure 1:</p>
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<p>The ecoregions are categorized within 14 biomes and eight biogeographic realms to facilitate representation analyses.</p>
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<p>It means they share some global characteristics in terms of climate, vegetation... (described <a href="https://www.worldwildlife.org/biomes/tropical-and-subtropical-moist-broadleaf-forests" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>), but they also have some differences. To see these differences, you have to go to a lower level than biomes: ecoregions. The same study divided the world into 867 ecoregions, that are mostly based on the distribution of species.</p>

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<p>So let's take the tropical rainforests of Earth for an example. The Congo, Amazon, Indonesia, Malaysia, and wherever else it may grow. Are all these aforementioned places considered parts of one biome, the tropical rainforest? Or are the Amazon Congo and etc. all just considered their own biomes which just happen to share the same biome type (in this case the tropical rainforest)?</p>

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What exactly are singular biomes as units?
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# What exactly are singular biomes as units?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-09-09)

So let's take the tropical rainforests of Earth for an example. The Congo, Amazon, Indonesia, Malaysia, and wherever else it may grow. Are all these aforementioned places considered parts of one biome, the tropical rainforest? Or are the Amazon Congo and etc. all just considered their own biomes which just happen to share the same biome type (in this case the tropical rainforest)?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2020-09-10. Score: 1

I guess it depends on which biome classification you use (there are several), but yes, usually tropical forests of Amazonia, Africa & Asia are classified within the same biome. For instance if you take the WWF classification made by [Olson et al. (2001)](https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051%5B0933:TEOTWA%5D2.0.CO;2), which has 14 terrestrial biomes, they all fall in the "Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests" biome, in green in their figure 1:

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/ayykw.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/ayykw.jpg)

> The ecoregions are categorized within 14 biomes and eight biogeographic realms to facilitate representation analyses.

It means they share some global characteristics in terms of climate, vegetation... (described [here](https://www.worldwildlife.org/biomes/tropical-and-subtropical-moist-broadleaf-forests)), but they also have some differences. To see these differences, you have to go to a lower level than biomes: ecoregions. The same study divided the world into 867 ecoregions, that are mostly based on the distribution of species.


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