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ecoregion: a standalone construct

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Biogeography

a large area of land with a distinct assemblage of natural communities and species, used as a unit for global biodiversity mapping.

In biogeography, ecoregion refers to a large area of land with a distinct assemblage of natural communities and species, used as a unit for global biodiversity mapping. This meaning comes from Olson (2001) in BioScience.[1]

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assemblage4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs biodiversity3 names · 4 citationsjangle · one idea, four rival measures half-earth1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Olson, D. M., Dinerstein, E., Wikramanayake, E. D., Burgess, N. D., Powell, G. V. N., Underwood, E. C., D'amico, J. A., Itoua, I., Strand, H. E., Morrison, J. C., Loucks, C. J., Allnutt, T. F., Ricketts, T. H., Kura, Y., Lamoreux, J. F., Wettengel, W. W., Hedao, P., & Kassem, K. R. (2001). Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth. BioScience, 51(11), 933. https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0933:teotwa]2.0.co;2

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