| 单词 | climatic climax |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclimatic climax climatic climax n. Ecology (in the theory of F. E. Clements) a stable ecological community characterized as the typical end point of succession in a particular climatic region. ΚΠ 1916 F. E. Clements Plant Succession vi. 107 Such apparent climaxes are always subordinate to the normal developmental or climatic climax, and may accordingly be distinguished as subclimaxes. 1952 P. W. Richards Trop. Rain Forest iii. 40 Since the Tropical Rain forest is a climatic climax, it must, by definition, be in a state of equilibrium. 1998 R. J. Huggett Fund. Biogeogr. vii. 179 The disequilibrium view rose to stardom in the early 1970s, when some ecologists dared to suggest that succession leads nowhere in particular, that there are no long-lasting climatic climaxes. < as lemmas |
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