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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the biogeographic region that includes Europe, the northwest coast of Africa, and Asia north of the Himalaya Mountains.
from The Century Dictionary.
- [lowercase] Of or pertaining to the fauna and flora of the Palearctic region.
- Of or pertaining to the northern part of the Old World, or northern sections of the eastern hemisphere: distinguished from
Nearctic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun One of the major
ecozones of the world, coveringEurope , the oldUSSR territories, part ofNorth Africa , and NorthAsia including theHimalaya foothills.
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Examples
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When I worked many years ago on this subject, I doubted much whether the now-called Palearctic and Nearctic regions ought to be separated; and I determined if I made another region that it should be Madagascar.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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When I worked many years ago on this subject, I doubted much whether the now-called Palearctic and Nearctic regions ought to be separated; and I determined if I made another region that it should be Madagascar.
Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916
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If you are looking to find an enormous amount of information about bird skulls and anatomy of species from the Western Palearctic and other areas from all over the world, BirdSkulls is for you.
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The Birds of the Western Palearctic sounds a typically cautious note, recording a flushed female woodcock “calling and apparently struggling to prop young between feet with depressed tail.”
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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I love the moth names and I love The Birds of the Western Palearctic for “vermiculation”—a word I have only encountered in these and other similar pages of defeat.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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The sixteen goose populations that nest in the Arctic and overwinter in the western Palearctic.
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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In the western Palearctic, the king eider has been delineated into two broadly distributed breeding populations in North America, in the western and eastern Arctic, on the basis of banding (ringing) data [50] and of isotopic signatures of their diet while on wintering grounds [51].
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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This is how the great handbook of European birds, The Birds of the Western Palearctic, attempts to capture a nightjar in words—one bird sits still among all these feathers:
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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In North America, this was likely to have been followed by a second expansion that began in warmer periods about 80 000 years ago from Alaska eastward across the Palearctic to establish populations in the eastern Canadian Arctic and West Greenland.
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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The goose species of the western Palearctic region provide good examples of migratory species that have been the subject of considerable research and conservation action [56].
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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