Meanings
adverbcoldward (not comparable)
- not comparableToward a cold region.
adjectivecoldward (not comparable)
- not comparableToward a cold region.
Also the recent warming is reflected in changed distributions, especially for mobile species at their coldward (i.e., toward the cold end of a temperature gradient) altitudinal or latitudinal edges.
2015 January 9, Kristoffer Hylander, Johan Ehrlén, Miska Luoto, Eric Meineri, “Microrefugia: Not for everyone”, in Ambio, volume 44 (supplement 1), →DOI, →PMID, pages 60–8
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