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On the ground the light is dim, the air heavy, and the way forward is cut with a blade or followed along rivers."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"tropical_dry_forest","name":"Tropical Dry Forest","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/tropical-dry-forest","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/tropical_dry_forest","names":"Tropical Dry Forest","realm":"terrestrial","group":"terrestrial","description":"A warm forest ruled by the seasons: green and dense in the rains, bare and dusty in the long dry months, when many trees drop their leaves. Water gathers in a few pools and every animal knows where they are."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"temperate_forest","name":"Temperate Forest","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/temperate-forest","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/temperate_forest","names":"Temperate Forest","realm":"terrestrial","group":"terrestrial","description":"Oak, beech and hazel woods with four clear seasons, green in summer and bare in winter. It is the forest of most old tales: easy to live from, easy to get lost in, and full of game."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"temperate_conifer_forest","name":"Temperate Conifer Forest","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/temperate-conifer-forest","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/temperate_conifer_forest","names":"Temperate Conifer Forest","realm":"terrestrial","group":"terrestrial","description":"Dark woods of pine, spruce and cedar on mountainsides and rainy coasts, green all year. The ground is soft with needles, the trees are tall, and the light rarely reaches the floor."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"taiga","name":"Taiga","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/taiga","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/taiga","names":"Taiga","realm":"terrestrial","group":"terrestrial","description":"The great northern forest of spruce, pine, larch and birch, broken by bogs, lakes and slow rivers. Winters are long and bitter, summers short and full of mosquitoes, and people live from furs, fish and the reindeer."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"savanna","name":"Savanna","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/savanna","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/savanna","names":"Savanna","realm":"terrestrial","group":"terrestrial","description":"Warm grassland scattered with trees such as acacias and baobabs, green in the rains and golden in the dry season. It holds the great herds and the hunters that follow them, and the horizon is always far."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"grassland","name":"Grassland","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/grassland","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/grassland","names":"Grassland","realm":"terrestrial","group":"terrestrial","description":"Open steppe and prairie under a huge sky, hot in summer and swept by cold winds in winter. Few trees, much grass: a land for herders and riders, where a traveller is seen from far away."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"flooded_grassland","name":"Flooded Grassland","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/flooded-grassland","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/flooded_grassland","names":"Flooded Grassland","realm":"terrestrial","group":"terrestrial","description":"Wide grassy plains that lie under shallow water for part of the year. Birds gather in their thousands, fish spread across the plain, and travel turns from walking to wading or poling a boat."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"alpine_meadow","name":"Alpine Meadow","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/alpine-meadow","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/alpine_meadow","names":"Alpine Meadow","realm":"terrestrial","group":"terrestrial","description":"High pastures above the last trees, bright with flowers in a short summer and buried in snow the rest of the year. The air is thin, the weather turns fast, and herders bring their animals up only for the warm months."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"tundra","name":"Tundra","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/tundra","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/tundra","names":"Tundra","realm":"terrestrial","group":"terrestrial","description":"A treeless land of moss, lichen and dwarf shrubs over frozen ground, beyond the northern forest. Long dark winters, a brief summer of endless daylight, and herds that cross it in the thousands."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"mediterranean_scrub","name":"Mediterranean Scrub","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/mediterranean-scrub","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/mediterranean_scrub","names":"Mediterranean Scrub","realm":"terrestrial","group":"terrestrial","description":"Dry hills of fragrant shrubs, olive and cork oak, with mild wet winters and hot dry summers. Rosemary and thyme grow wild, fires come in late summer, and the land has been farmed for thousands of years."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"hot_desert","name":"Hot Desert","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/hot-desert","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/hot_desert","names":"Hot Desert","realm":"terrestrial","group":"terrestrial","description":"Sand, gravel and bare rock under a fierce sun, with little rain and far fewer dunes than tales suggest. Life gathers at oases and wells, travel follows them, and the nights are colder than strangers expect."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"cold_desert","name":"Cold Desert","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/cold-desert","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/cold_desert","names":"Cold Desert","realm":"terrestrial","group":"terrestrial","description":"Dry steppe and stony desert far from the sea, scorching in summer and freezing in winter. Saxaul and tough grasses hold the ground, and caravans and herders cross it from well to well."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"ice_sheet","name":"Ice Sheet","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/ice-sheet","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/ice_sheet","names":"Ice Sheet","realm":"terrestrial","group":"terrestrial","description":"An endless field of ice and snow where nothing grows. The cold kills, the light blinds, crevasses hide under the snow, and only those who know the sea ice along its edges live from it."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"barrens","name":"Barrens","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/barrens","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/barrens","names":"Barrens","realm":"terrestrial","group":"terrestrial","description":"Bare rock, scree and thin soil where almost nothing takes root, high in the mountains or far in the cold. Wind and frost do most of the work here, and travellers carry everything they need."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"swamp","name":"Swamp","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/swamp","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/swamp","names":"Swamp","realm":"freshwater","group":"wetland","description":"Flooded forest where trees stand in dark, still water. Paths vanish, mud holds the feet, insects swarm, and boats go where legs cannot."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"marsh","name":"Marsh","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/marsh","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/marsh","names":"Marsh","realm":"freshwater","group":"wetland","description":"Open wetland of reeds, rushes and shallow pools, without trees. Rich in birds, fish and thatch, hard to cross on foot, and loud with frogs on summer nights."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"bog","name":"Bog","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/bog","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/bog","names":"Bog","realm":"freshwater","group":"wetland","description":"Wet ground of sphagnum moss growing over deep peat, acid and poor, spread with cloudberry and heather. It looks firm and is not, and people cut its peat for fuel."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"mangrove","name":"Mangrove","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/mangrove","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/mangrove","names":"Mangrove","realm":"marine","group":"wetland","description":"Salt-water forest on tropical coasts, its trees standing on stilt roots that the tide covers and uncovers. A tangle of channels, mud and fish, hard to cross and easy to hide in."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"river","name":"River","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/river","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/river","names":"River","realm":"freshwater","group":"freshwater","description":"Running water large enough to carry boats and to bar the way, brown in flood and clear in a dry summer. It hisses over the shoals and goes quiet in the deep pools, and its banks smell of mud, willow and wet weed. Pike and carp hold in the slow reaches, salmon and eels come and go with the seasons, and herons, otters and kingfishers live off them. Rivers are roads, borders and larders at once: towns stand on them, mills turn on them, and fords and bridges are fought over. People fear the spring flood that carries off houses, and the current that pulls a swimmer under on a warm afternoon. The Loire, wide and shallow over its shifting sandbanks, is a river of this kind."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"stream","name":"Stream","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/stream","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/stream","names":"Stream","realm":"freshwater","group":"freshwater","description":"Small, fast, clear water running down from hills and woods, never far from shade. It chatters over stones, gathers in little pools under the roots and smells of moss, cress and cold rock. Trout hold under its stones, crayfish hide beneath them, and dippers walk straight into the current to feed. People drink from it, wash in it, set mills on it and use it as a boundary between fields and parishes. A stream is easy to cross most of the year, but a storm in the hills can turn it brown and loud in an hour. The clear, stony brooks of the Jura are streams of this kind."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"lake","name":"Lake","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/lake","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/lake","names":"Lake","realm":"freshwater","group":"freshwater","description":"Wide still water, deep enough to hide what lives in it, ringed with reeds, woods or bare mountains. On calm days it holds the sky like a mirror; in wind it raises short, steep waves that sink small boats, and its shores smell of weed and wet stone. Pike, perch and char live in it, ducks, grebes and swans on it, and sometimes a seal or a sturgeon in the great northern lakes. Fishing villages line its shores, ferries cross it, and in the north it freezes hard enough to carry carts and fishing huts. People fear its sudden storms, its cold depths that give back no one, and the ice that cracks in spring. Lake Geneva, deep and long between the Alps and the Jura, is a lake of this kind."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"pond","name":"Pond","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/pond","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/pond","names":"Pond","realm":"freshwater","group":"freshwater","description":"Small still water, often warm and green, thick with weed, lilies and the hum of insects. On summer evenings it is loud with frogs, and it smells of mud, mint and something rotting gently at the bottom. Newts, carp, dragonflies and water snails live in it, and herons and grass snakes come to hunt them. Many ponds are dug by people: to water cattle, to raise fish for fast days, to drive a mill or to put out fires. They are shallow enough to wade, yet children drown in them every year, and old ponds are said to hide what was thrown in at night. The village ponds of the French countryside, mares where cattle drank, are ponds of this kind."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"spring","name":"Spring","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/spring","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/spring","names":"Spring","realm":"freshwater","group":"freshwater","description":"Water rising from the ground, cold or hot, often clear and sometimes rich in minerals. A spring may be a trickle under a stone or a pool that boils up through white sand; some smell of sulphur, taste of iron or leave a crust of salt on the rocks. Watercress, mosses and tiny blind snails live in the coldest ones, and the hot ones grow mats of coloured slime around their edges. Springs draw villages, shrines and travellers, and many have a saint, a spirit or a healing reputation. People fear the spring that runs dry, the one that turns bitter, and the one whose water makes the drinker forget. The hot springs of Bath, where people have bathed since Roman times, are springs of this kind."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"rocky_shore","name":"Rocky Shore","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/rocky-shore","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/rocky_shore","names":"Rocky Shore","realm":"marine","group":"shore","description":"Rocks, cliffs and tide pools battered by the sea. Seals and seabirds crowd the ledges, shellfish cling to the stones, and the tide decides when a way along the foot of the cliff is open."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"sandy_shore","name":"Sandy Shore","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/sandy-shore","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/sandy_shore","names":"Sandy Shore","realm":"marine","group":"shore","description":"Beaches and dunes held together by tough grasses, open to wind and sea. Easy walking at low tide, a landing place for boats, and a place where storms leave strange things behind."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"estuary","name":"Estuary","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/estuary","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/estuary","names":"Estuary","realm":"marine","group":"shore","description":"Where a river meets the sea, with mudflats, salt marsh and water that turns from fresh to salt with the tide. Rich in fish and birds, and the natural place for a port."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"coastal_shelf","name":"Coastal Shelf","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/coastal-shelf","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/coastal_shelf","names":"Coastal Shelf","realm":"marine","group":"marine","description":"The shallow sea over the edge of a continent, green or grey rather than blue, where most fishing boats work. Its swell is short and choppy, its fogs come in without warning, and on deck everything smells of brine, tar and fish. Cod, herring, mackerel and flatfish crowd its banks, seals and porpoises follow them, and gulls follow the boats. Fishermen, traders and navies cross it every day, and its sandbanks, wrecks and lightships are known by name along the coast. People fear the sudden gale, the fog on the banks, and the shallows that break a keel far from any land in sight. The North Sea, shallow and stormy over its sandy banks, is a sea of this kind."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"coral_reef","name":"Coral Reef","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/coral-reef","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/coral_reef","names":"Coral Reef","realm":"marine","group":"marine","description":"Warm, clear, shallow sea built up by corals into walls and gardens of colour. From a boat it shows as bands of turquoise, green and dark blue; underwater it crackles with the sound of shrimps and parrotfish crunching coral, and at low tide the exposed reef smells of salt and sun-baked weed. Fish of every shape and colour crowd it, with turtles, rays, octopuses and the sharks that patrol its edges. People fish it, dive it for pearls and shells, and live on the islands it shelters behind its walls. It is sharp enough to tear a hull and a danger to any ship that does not know the passes, and some of its creatures sting or poison. The Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Australia, is the largest reef of this kind."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"kelp_forest","name":"Kelp Forest","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/kelp-forest","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/kelp_forest","names":"Kelp Forest","realm":"marine","group":"marine","description":"Cold coastal waters where giant seaweed rises from the rocky bottom to the surface like a submerged wood. Seen from above, it is a brown mat rocking on the swell; below, the light comes down green and golden through the swaying stalks, and on the beach the cast-up weed smells of iodine and rot. Fish shelter among the stalks, crabs and urchins graze the floor, and seals and sea otters hunt through it. People cut the kelp for soap, glass and fertiliser, fish its edges and set lobster pots among its roots. Divers and swimmers can get tangled in it, and a boat’s rudder can be caught fast at the worst moment. The kelp forests off the coast of California, home to sea otters, are forests of this kind."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"open_ocean","name":"Open Ocean","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/open-ocean","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/open_ocean","names":"Open Ocean","realm":"marine","group":"marine","description":"Deep blue water far from any coast, with no landmark but the sky. The swell is long and slow, the wind rarely stops, and the air smells of nothing but salt, with no land, weed or smoke in it. Its life comes in bursts: schools of tuna and flying fish, whales, sharks and the albatrosses and petrels that ride the wind for weeks. Ships cross it for weeks, steering by the stars and the sun, and whalers follow its great beasts from one ocean to another. Sailors fear the storm with no harbour to run to, the calm that leaves them without water, and going overboard where nobody will ever find them. The middle of the Pacific, thousands of leagues from any shore, is ocean of this kind."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"deep_sea","name":"Deep Sea","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/deep-sea","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/deep_sea","names":"Deep Sea","realm":"marine","group":"marine","description":"The dark, cold, crushing depths below the reach of sunlight. There is no sound but the creak of whatever comes down from above, and the only light is the cold glow some creatures make for themselves. Anglerfish, gulper eels, giant squid and pale crabs live there, slow and patient, and eat what sinks from the sunlit sea. No one goes down there: fishermen only lower lines and nets into it and haul up its strangers, and sailors tell of what they saw rise from it. What comes up is rarely forgotten, and the depths are said to keep every drowned ship and sailor of the world. The Mariana Trench, the deepest place in the oceans, is deep sea of this kind."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"cave","name":"Cave","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/cave","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/cave","names":"Cave","realm":"subterranean","group":"subterranean","description":"Hollows in the rock, from a shelter under a ledge to networks that run for kilometres. Dark, cool and the same temperature all year, home to bats and pale creatures, and to whatever people bring or hide there."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"mine","name":"Mine","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/mine","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/mine","names":"Mine","realm":"subterranean","group":"subterranean","description":"Shafts and galleries dug by people after ore, coal, salt or stone. Dark, cramped and dangerous, with bad air, flooding and falling rock, and the work of generations in its walls."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"underground_water","name":"Underground Water","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/underground-water","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/underground_water","names":"Underground Water","realm":"subterranean","group":"subterranean","description":"Rivers and lakes that run through the rock under the ground, cold, clear and silent. In lamplight the water is so clear that it seems not to be there until a boot goes in; the only sounds are drips, the hollow rush of a hidden fall and the echo of a voice that carries too far. Blind white fish, pale shrimps and the strange salamander called the olm live in it, and feed on what the water brings down. Some passages can be followed by boat or by swimming; some feed the springs and wells of the land above, and townsfolk draw from them without knowing. Cavers fear the sump where the roof meets the water, the flood that rises after rain far above, and the cold that numbs a swimmer in minutes. The underground river of Padirac, in France, followed by boat beneath the plateau, is water of this kind."},{"kind":"milieu","id":"sea_cave","name":"Sea Cave","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/sea-cave","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/milieu/sea_cave","names":"Sea Cave","realm":"subterranean","group":"subterranean","description":"Caves cut into sea cliffs by the waves, open at low tide and drowned at high tide. Inside, the light is green and wavering, every wave booms like a drum, and the air smells of salt, rotting weed and the droppings of the birds on the ledges. Anemones, mussels and starfish cling to the walls, seals haul out on the shingle at the back, and pigeons and shags nest in the roof. Smugglers, hermits and wreckers have all used them, and fishermen shelter in them from a squall. The sea comes back faster than one thinks, a swell can fill a passage to the roof without warning, and some caves blow spray from holes far up the cliff. Fingal’s Cave, on the Scottish island of Staffa, with its columns of black basalt, is a cave of this kind."}],"meta":{"version":"v1","lang":"en","total":36,"limit":50,"offset":0,"license":{"name":"MGS Toolbox open data terms","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/api/v1/docs#terms","attribution":"Data © Michael Ghelfi Studios — https://michaelghelfistudios.com"}},"links":{"self":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/api/v1/milieux","docs":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/api/v1/docs"}}