单词 | biogeographic |
释义 | biogeographicadj. Of or relating to biogeography. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > [adjective] > biogeography biogeographical1891 biogeographic1892 1892 C. H. Merriam in Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 7 8 The principal bio-geographic divisions that have been recognized..are described in the following synopses. 1915 Bot. Gaz. 59 70 Wallace..held to the idea of a sharp boundary line in the Straits of Macassar, separating the Indo-Malay and Australasian biogeographic regions. 1960 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 152 614 The suggested biogeographic subdivision of the littoral temperate of South America is therefore as follows: West Coast. (1) Peruvian province: 2 to approx. 30° S. 2006 A. Steffen et al. Worldchanging (2008) 476/2 In discerning biogeographic patterns, we begin to perceive natural units—watersheds, biomes, ecoregions—that challenge arbitrary boundaries of political jurisdictions. Derivatives ˌbioˌgeoˈgraphically adv. as regards biogeography; in biogeographic terms. ΚΠ 1899 House Jrnl. (Proc. House of Representatives Territory of New Mexico, 33rd Session) 97 A great amount of work will have to be done..before this territory can be presented biogeographically upon the map with correct details. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. viii. 570 This fact is of considerable interest biogeographically. 1993 M. W. Klemens Amphibians & Reptiles Connecticut v. 195 For these analyses, ‘New England’ was defined biogeographically as beginning on the east side of the Hudson River. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1892 |
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