Definition of geobotany in English:
geobotany
noun dʒiːəʊˈbɒt(ə)niˌjēōˈbät(ə)nē
another term for phytogeography
Example sentencesExamples
- The lecture course contents include an introduction to the topics, approaches and methods of geobotany and vegetation ecology.
- The geobotany of the region, a transition zone between boreal forest and arctic tundra, is a mosaic of treeless expanses composed of polygonized peat bog.
- Their research concerns covered such branches of biology as phytosociology, floristics, plant systematics and geobotany and plant and animal anatomy.
Derivatives
adjective
Whereas biogeochemical methods require chemical analysis of plant organs, the geobotanical methods depend on direct observations of plant morphology and the distribution of plant species.
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- Both geobotanical and structural interpretations of remotely sensed data tend to be plagued by random associations.
- The book begins with a description of the geobotanical regions of Antarctica and an overview of the native flora.
- Hyperspectral remote sensing can potentially have a significant impact in detecting geobotanical anomalies or trends.
- Deschampsia antarctica, Antarctic hairgrass, is the only natural grass species growing in the Antarctic geobotanical zone, widespread all over the Maritime Antarctic.
noun
These microbiologists, plant physiologists, soil scientists, and geobotanists shared an interest in pursuing experimental investigations of energy, matter, and life.
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- Since 1991 she has worked as a geobotanist for the Krkonoše National Park Administration.
- The New Botanic Garden was founded in 1967, when the geobotanist professor needed more space for his ecological field experiments.
- We closely cooperate with Russian, European and Northamerican geobotanists and landscape ecologists.
- When Heinz Ellenberg, one of Europe's most influential geobotanists, travelled to the Peruvian Andes in 1957, he was looking for natural vegetation.