exclosure
/ɪkˈskləʊʒə
/ /ɛkˈskləʊʒə/noun Forestry
An area from which unwanted animals are excluded.After the fence is completed, The Nature Conservancy will conduct aggressive alien plant and animal control within the exclosure, which will also serve as a reintroduction site for at least three more endangered plant species....
- We report growth for Tiarella, a species that has spread clonally within exclosures but not outside exclosures where survival has been low.
- In cases where we tested the hypothesis that arthropod densities and leaf damage would be lower in the control (with birds) than in the experimental exclosures (birds excluded), we used one-tailed tests for significance.
Origin
1920s: from ex-1 'out' + closure, on the pattern of enclosure.
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