a geographical region that has remained unaltered by a climatic change affecting surrounding regions and that therefore forms a haven for relict fauna and flora
Word origin
C20: Latin: refuge
Examples of 'refugia' in a sentence
refugia
Both neutral and adaptive genetic variation declined with distance from glacial refugia.
Inga Zeisset, Trevor J C Beebee 2014, 'Drift rather than selection dominates MHC class II allelic diversity patterns at thebiogeographical range scale in natterjack toads Bufo calamita.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4061088?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Wildfire refugia are relatively understudied, particularly concerning the impacts of subsequent fires on existing refugia.
Crystal A. Kolden, Tyler M. Bleeker, Alistair M. S. Smith, Helen M. Poulos, Ann E.Camp 2017, 'Fire Effects on Historical Wildfire Refugia in Contemporary Wildfires', Forestshttps://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/8/10/400. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Consistent with fire regime theory, fire refugia and high burn severity areas were inversely proportional.
Garrett W. Meigs, Meg A. Krawchuk 2018, 'Composition and Structure of Forest Fire Refugia: What Are the Ecosystem Legaciesacross Burned Landscapes?', Forestshttp://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/9/5/243. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Water gaining areas below granite outcrops were identified as important putative refugia.
Antonius G. T. Schut, Grant W. Wardell-Johnson, Colin J. Yates, Gunnar Keppel, IreneuszBaran, Steven E. Franklin, Stephen D. Hopper, Kimberley P. Van Niel, Ladislav Mucina,Margaret Byrne 2014, 'Rapid Characterisation of Vegetation Structure to Predict Refugia and Climate ChangeImpacts across a Global Biodiversity Hotspot', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0082778. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We asked whether displaced invertebrates use non-spawning habitats as refugia in streams.
Emily Y. Campbell, Richard W. Merritt, Kenneth W. Cummins, M. Eric Benbow 2012, 'Spatial and Temporal Variability of Macroinvertebrates in Spawning and Non-SpawningHabitats during a Salmon Run in Southeast Alaska', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0039254. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Rather, they may be explained by secondary contact after expansion from different refugia.
Eugeniya I. Bekker, Dmitry P. Karabanov, Yan R. Galimov, Christoph R. Haag, TatianaV. Neretina, Alexey A. Kotov 2018, 'Phylogeography of Daphnia magna Straus (Crustacea: Cladocera) in Northern Eurasia:Evidence for a deep longitudinal split between mitochondrial lineages', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0194045. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Alders, which host few and specific symbionts, have high genetic diversity in glacial refugia.
Melanie Roy, Adrien C. Pozzi, Raphaëlle Gareil, Melissande Nagati, Sophie Manzi, ImenNouioui, Nino Sharikadze, Patricia Jargeat, Hervé Gryta, Pierre-Arthur Moreau, MariaP. Fernandez, Monique Gardes 2017, 'Alder and the Golden Fleece: high diversity of Frankia and ectomycorrhizal fungi revealedfrom Alnus glutinosa subsp. barbata roots close to a Tertiary and glacial refugium',PeerJhttps://peerj.com/articles/3479.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Moreover, these dolines will likely become increasingly indispensable refugia for biodiversity under future global warming.
Zoltán Bátori, János Csiky, Tünde Farkas, E. Anna Vojtkó, László Erdős, Dániel Kovács,Tamás Wirth, László Körmöczi, András Vojtkó 2014, 'The conservation value of karst dolines for vascular plants in woodland habitats ofHungary: refugia and climate change', International Journal of Speleologyhttp://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol43/iss1/2/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Such refugia have served as centres of expansion to northern regions.
Anastasia Laggis, Athanasios D. Baxevanis, Alexandra Charalampidou, Stefania Maniatsi,Alexander Triantafyllidis, Theodore J. Abatzopoulos 2017, 'Microevolution of the noble crayfish (Astacus astacus) in the Southern Balkan Peninsula',BMC Evolutionary Biologyhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-017-0971-6. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In addition, this boundary was a contact zone between two groups from different refugia.
Zhe Wang, Zhe Wang, Yanfei Zeng, Zhendong Zhang, Songbai Sheng, Ju Tian, RonglingWu, Xiaoming Pang 2017, 'Phylogeography Study of the Siberian Apricot (Prunus sibirica L.) in Northern ChinaAssessed by Chloroplast Microsatellite and DNA Makers', Frontiers in Plant Sciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2017.01989/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)