Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An area inhabited by one or more relict species.
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- noun Any
local environment that has escaped regionalecological change and therefore provides ahabitat for endangeredspecies
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A refugium is believed to have existed in the west of this region.
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The public option will be your refugium (your refuge).
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"The world is a big place, so why couldn't there be a refugium where a few dinosaurs limped on?" he said.
Geologist claims a few dinosaurs survived extinction event Brian Vastag 2011
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The public option will be your refugium (your refuge).
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"The world is a big place, so why couldn't there be a refugium where a few dinosaurs limped on?" he said.
Geologist claims a few dinosaurs survived extinction event Brian Vastag 2011
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It is part of an archipelago of peaks and plateaux, an isolated refugium covered by Guinean montane forest, which rises steeply above undulating lowland forest plains.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008
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These refugial populations occurred across Arctic Canada and Greenland [46], and apparently in a single refugium in northwest Europe [47].
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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In Europe, genetic analyses suggest that common eiders underwent a post-glacial range expansion from a refugium in Finland, north and west to the Faroe Islands and subsequently to Iceland.
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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It is also a Pleistocene refugium, all of which have resulted in extremely high biodiversity.
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This has often led to a population structure in which genetic diversity decreases with distance from the ancestral refugium population [43], and so northern populations are often genetically less diverse than their southern counterparts [44].
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009
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