Biomes, biogeographical realms and ecoregions have become central concepts of biotic organization and biodiversity research. Recent data‐intensive analysis has shown that, while ecoregions do delineate biotic communities, how distinct they are from one another varies considerably across regions and taxa. Given their central importance to global models of the earth system and to the development of conservation plans, it is key to understand in what regions, and for which taxa, ecoregion classification schemes best describe the underlying variability in biological communities.

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生态区域的生物地理：跨区域和分类单元的描述力

生物群落，生物地理领域和生态区域已成为生物组织和生物多样性研究的中心概念。最近的数据密集型分析表明，尽管生态区确实描述了生物群落，但它们之间的区别程度在不同地区和分类群中差异很大。鉴于它们对地球系统的全球模型和保护计划的发展至关重要，因此了解生态区域分类方案最能描述生物群落潜在变异的区域和分类单元至关重要。