Definition of refugium in English:

refugium

nounPlural refugia rɪˈfjuːdʒɪəmrəˈfyo͞ojēəm

Biology

An area in which a population of organisms can survive through a period of unfavourable conditions, especially glaciation.
Example sentencesExamples
- During the Quaternary glaciations, cork oak may have survived in scattered refugia which possessed favourable microclimate conditions, and from which post-glacial colonization occurred over recent millennia.
- For the latter taxa, an alternative hypothesis would imply the iterative invasion of shelf habitats by morphologically conservative populations from shallow refugia.
- Moreover, resting stages also afford species a temporal refugium from adverse conditions.
- We suggest that the shallow epicratonic platform area of the Canadian Shield may have served as a refugium for relatively archaic taxa.
- The authors hypothesized their common origin from an Atlantic refugium after the last glaciation.

Origin

1950s: from Latin, literally 'place of refuge'.

Definition of refugium in US English:

refugium

nounrəˈfyo͞ojēəm

Biology

An area in which a population of organisms can survive through a period of unfavorable conditions, especially glaciation.
Example sentencesExamples
- Moreover, resting stages also afford species a temporal refugium from adverse conditions.
- For the latter taxa, an alternative hypothesis would imply the iterative invasion of shelf habitats by morphologically conservative populations from shallow refugia.
- We suggest that the shallow epicratonic platform area of the Canadian Shield may have served as a refugium for relatively archaic taxa.
- During the Quaternary glaciations, cork oak may have survived in scattered refugia which possessed favourable microclimate conditions, and from which post-glacial colonization occurred over recent millennia.
- The authors hypothesized their common origin from an Atlantic refugium after the last glaciation.

Origin

1950s: from Latin, literally ‘place of refuge’.

单词	refugium
释义	Definition of refugium in English: refugium nounPlural refugia rɪˈfjuːdʒɪəmrəˈfyo͞ojēəm Biology An area in which a population of organisms can survive through a period of unfavourable conditions, especially glaciation. Example sentencesExamples During the Quaternary glaciations, cork oak may have survived in scattered refugia which possessed favourable microclimate conditions, and from which post-glacial colonization occurred over recent millennia. For the latter taxa, an alternative hypothesis would imply the iterative invasion of shelf habitats by morphologically conservative populations from shallow refugia. Moreover, resting stages also afford species a temporal refugium from adverse conditions. We suggest that the shallow epicratonic platform area of the Canadian Shield may have served as a refugium for relatively archaic taxa. The authors hypothesized their common origin from an Atlantic refugium after the last glaciation. Origin 1950s: from Latin, literally 'place of refuge'. Definition of refugium in US English: refugium nounrəˈfyo͞ojēəm Biology An area in which a population of organisms can survive through a period of unfavorable conditions, especially glaciation. Example sentencesExamples Moreover, resting stages also afford species a temporal refugium from adverse conditions. For the latter taxa, an alternative hypothesis would imply the iterative invasion of shelf habitats by morphologically conservative populations from shallow refugia. We suggest that the shallow epicratonic platform area of the Canadian Shield may have served as a refugium for relatively archaic taxa. During the Quaternary glaciations, cork oak may have survived in scattered refugia which possessed favourable microclimate conditions, and from which post-glacial colonization occurred over recent millennia. The authors hypothesized their common origin from an Atlantic refugium after the last glaciation. Origin 1950s: from Latin, literally ‘place of refuge’.
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