biota vs collection

biota and collection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
biota	Yes	No	No	No
collection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, collection is a hypernym of biota; that is, collection is a word with a broader meaning than biota:

Other hypernyms of biota include accumulation, aggregation, assemblage.

biota (noun)	collection (noun)
all the plant and animal life of a particular region	the act of gathering something together
	a publication containing a variety of works
	request for a sum of money
	several things grouped together or considered as a whole