Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to climate.
- adjective Ecology Influenced by or resulting from the prevailing climate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or connected with climate: as, “a climatic division,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or influenced by
climate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a climate
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Examples
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Its ability, though, to repopulate a small area all on its own is giving researchers in Australia great hope that plants will be far more durable in the face of long-term climatic change than they've thought in the past.
Self-Cloning Botanic Wonder Amazes Australian Scientists 2010
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This may stem from the variability in climatic conditions and the practice of naming a particular disease as it manifested.
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Its ability, though, to repopulate a small area all on its own is giving researchers in Australia great hope that plants will be far more durable in the face of long-term climatic change than they've thought in the past.
Self-Cloning Botanic Wonder Amazes Australian Scientists 2010
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A multi-year project, centered around small sensitive lake ecosystems in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (Cornwallis Island, Somerset Island, and Devon Island), was designed to explain the interactions between short - or longer - term climatic variation, the bioaccumulation of metals, and various biochemical stress indicators in land-locked populations of Arctic char.
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Although the displacement rate of the upper treeline is a good reflection of long-term climatic fluctuations (Table 14.8), reconstruction of actual temperature changes is complicated because of the response lag caused by the slow growth of seedlings and the lack of seeds on remote sites.
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The region is an important area for understanding recent ecological successions, as well as longer term climatic changes.
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Other than releasing small amounts of oil from the Reserve for very limited short term climatic or pipeline disruptions, extortionist high oil prices that were risking a national economic calamity were never adequate cause to tap the SPR in this administration's reckoning.
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Long-term climatic changes in the arctic region of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Some seabird populations have been found to respond to long-term climatic changes in the North Atlantic Ocean [31], the North Pacific Ocean [32], and Antarctica.
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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The original Acacia bushland of this ecoregion has been greatly altered over thousands of years, through long-term climatic changes and also through anthropogenic effects.
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