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Classifying a Biome from Climate and Vegetation Data, Worked

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This procedure classifies an unfamiliar terrestrial region as a specific biome type using its temperature, precipitation, and vegetation structure, drawing together this chapter's biome-classification atoms.

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Classifying a biome from temperature or precipitation alone, without checking that vegetation structure matches the climate prediction, is the error here — the two lines of evidence must agree before a biome assignment is secure.