_:b1218312 "WWW:http://www.fs.fed.us/land/ecosysmgmt/colorimagemap/images/340.html"^^ . _:b1218312 . _:b1218312 . _:b1218312 . _:b1218312 "A temperate desert biome is a desert biome which has communities adapted to intermediate insolation, low rainfall, and large temperature variations between winter and summer. Winter temperatures may fall below 0 degrees Celsius. Some precipitation in this biome may fall as snow."^^ .