Meaning Bioregion
What does Bioregion mean? Here you find 11 meanings of the word Bioregion. You can also add a definition of Bioregion yourself

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Bioregion


A unique region on the Earth that has distinct soils, landforms, watersheds, climates, native plants, and animals, and/or other particular natural characteristics.
Source: physicalgeography.net

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Bioregion


area with specific ecological characteristics, including living and nonliving things. A bioregion is larger than an ecosystem.
Source: nationalgeographic.org

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Bioregion


a naturally bounded, ecologically distinct geography: a watershed is one example. Term coined by Peter Berg and Raymond Dasmann. The largest bioregion is an ecoregion (example: the Ozark Plateau), the next largest a georegion (river basins, mountains, watersheds), and the next a local morphoregion. As Berg described it:
Source: terrapsych.com (offline)

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Bioregion


A territory defined by a combination of biological, social, and geographic criteria, rather than geopolitical considerations; generally, a system of related, interconnected ecosystems. (Source: Global Biodiversity Assessment, GBA)
Source: unep.org (offline)

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Bioregion


a land area that is defined by shared plant and animal species, water, climate, soils, and human culture
Source: nourishlife.org (offline)

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Bioregion


A natural region defined by its ecological coherence. Each bioregion has a distinct geological formations, climatic conditions and ecology.
Source: thegreenfuse.org

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Bioregion


A territory defined by a combination of biological, social and geographic criteria, rather than by geopolitical considerations.
Source: aboutbioscience.org (offline)

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Bioregion


a unique life-place with its own soils, landforms, watersheds, climates, native plants and animals, and many other distinct natural characteristics.
Source: www2.gsu.edu

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Bioregion


  A natural region defined by its ecological coherence. Each bioregion has a distinct geological formations, climatic conditions and ecology.
Source: cstl-cla.semo.edu

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Bioregion


  biogeographic areas that capture the patterns of ecological characteristics in the landscape or seascape and form part of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia. more about biore [..]
Source: swifft.net.au

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Bioregion


refers to a biogeographic region or an area of land that is dominated by similar broad landscape patterns that reflect major structural geologies and climate, as well as major floristic and faunal ass [..]
Source: wetlandinfo.ehp.qld.gov.au





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