biogeographical
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8.1
- adjective
- /ˌbaɪoʊdʒɪəˈɡræfɪkəl/
- Specialized
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biogeográfico
- One question of concern is whether bacteria assemblages exhibit biogeographical constraints and properties similar to those of higher-order organisms, and how this might relate to ecosystem function.
- biogeographical realms
- biogeographical processes
- Biogeographical characteristics
Examples
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The ecoregional classification provides a sound biogeographical foundation on which we then build considerations of fine-scale patterns in biodiversity relating to fine-scale environmental variation.
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Such events profoundly affected the ranges of plants and animals and thus cast doubt on inferences based on modern biogeographical distributions.
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Further biogeographical information used in the analysis related to vegetation.
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The structure of ecological communities is driven by biogeographical and ecological processes.
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Large-scale biogeographical processes determine the regional species pool from which ecological communities are assembled.
Academic text (2010) -
As in those assessments, we use coarse-scale surrogates to provide a solid biogeographical foundation for our approach.
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Cultivar loss is also affected by sociospatial organization of land use and biogeographical characteristics of cultivars.
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The biogeographical similarity of West Africa and eastern Brazil would have further simplified the process of substitution.
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The 10,572 hectares of land comprise three distinct biogeographical areas with associated ecological characteristics.
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The study focused on the biogeographical distribution of endangered species across various continents.
Synonyms
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3.5
Relating to the land, sea, or places on Earth
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3.9
About the land, shape, or location of a place
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7.9
About where animals and plants live across the world
Compounds
- Specialized
An area of land and water that has its own types of plants and animals
Surface Forms
Morphology
biogeographical = geographical (semi-transparent) = bio + geo + graph + ical
The word is formed by adding the common prefix bio- to geographical, so the overall meaning is predictable for a learner who knows the base word.
Etymology
The word biogeographical is built from bio- ('life') and geography ('map of the Earth'). So biogeographical is like a 'map of life' and is used to talk about where plants and animals live and how they are spread across different places.