Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The study of the geographic distribution of organisms.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That branch of biology which treats of the geographical distribution of living things; geographical biology.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The study of the geographical distribution of living things
- n. The geographical distribution of a particular living thing
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The branch of biology which deals with the geographical distribution of animals and plants. It includes both zoögeography and phytogeography.
WordNet 3.0
- n. dealing with the geographical distribution of animals and plants
Etymologies
- bio- + geography (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Reports, photos and specimens are badly needed from these regions, and we have some way to go before babirusa diversity and biogeography is properly understood.”
The many babirusa species: laissez-faire lumping under fire again
“Scientists call this bond "biogeography" -- and if you're unfamiliar with it, and you have an imagination that allows you to roam in time and space, biogeography will change forever the way you think of yourself.”
“In another chapter, Coyne stresses the importance of biogeography, that is, the peculiar arrangement of species on continents versus different island types.”
Stuart Whatley: On Darwin's Birthday, Examining Why Evolution Is True
“The evidence for Common Descent is found in the nested containment hierarchy of morphology, embyonics, genomics, biogeography and the succession of fossils.”
“Labels: biogeography, research posted by Chad Arment @ 2: 17 PM”
“It was like island biogeography theory gone wild …”
Think Progress » Graham condemns Keep America Safe’s attacks on DOJ lawyers as ‘shameful.’
““It was like island biogeography theory gone wild …””
Think Progress » Graham condemns Keep America Safe’s attacks on DOJ lawyers as ‘shameful.’
“The great Philip Stott, the (now emeritus) professor of biogeography who for the past twenty years has patiently explained the bogus anti-science behind AGW theory and its real agenda of anti-western, anti-capitalist, anti-human ideology, has put up a terrific post about all this on his blog, The Clamour of the Times.”
“At present, she does research and teaching in the field of community ecology and biogeography at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina.”
“His research interests range from ecology, limnology, biostatistics and modeling, through ecosystems functioning, global climate change, nitrogen and carbon cycling in temperate peatlands to taxonomy, ecology and biogeography of Rotifera, Cladocera and Copepoda.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘biogeography’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Dinosaurs, extended
At first, this was a list for things found in Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History by David E. Fastovsky. But now it's degenerated a bit to contain anything dinosaur or fossil related.
disarticulate, body fossil, trace fossil, apatite, soft anatomy, permineralization, replacement, articulated, disarticulated, intestine’s-eye view, ichnofossil, paleoenvironment and 270 more...
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A Serving of Random Palavery
This is an eclectic and somewhat random list of words that catch and hold my attention. They may be archaic or disused, dialectal, jargon words from my fields of academic speciality (linguistics, ...
scraffle, infelicitous, misprize, defrock, caitiff, gimcrack, innerve, abjure, cyberchondriac, indurate, hexagynous, pistils and 146 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for biogeography.
hernesheir (n): the study of the distribution of biological species on regional, continental, or worldwide scales.
Good reference/definition at Dec 31, 2008