Definition of floristic in English:
floristic
adjective fləˈrɪstɪkfləˈristik
Botany Relating to the study of the distribution of plants.
Example sentencesExamples
- This descriptive floristic study will provide foresters, biologists, educators, and KSNPC personnel with data on the flora and vegetation of the Preserve.
- The analyzed data consisted strictly of the presence/absence of non-woody species, since many of the studies were floristic inventories and lacked measures of relative abundance.
- However, a number of vascular floristic studies on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee in the past 40 years have increased our baseline botanical knowledge of this region.
- Since 1971, eight floristic studies have contributed to our knowledge of the vascular flora of south Alabama.
- The relative species richness of the Preserve was then compared to selected floristic studies from the Cumberland Plateau using the same species area curve.
Derivatives
adverb
Botany In terms of richness of woody plants, this comparison confirmed the longstanding belief that the GSMNP is the most floristically species rich natural reserve in the Southern Appalachians.
Example sentencesExamples
- Results show that the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is among the most floristically rich natural areas in the Southern Appalachians.
- However, apparent vegetation changes underway suggest that the sites are converting from floristically diverse open barrens to a closed woodland with lower floristic diversity.
- If so, that variable should relate to regulation measures, because free-flowing stretches did not differ floristically.
- The islands are very rich floristically, with a high proportion of shrubs and other woody forms.