cryocratic

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noun

The glacial phase of ecological development, characterized by a cold, dry climate in which vegetation is sparse and lacking in diversity.

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nouncryocratic (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe glacial phase of ecological development, characterized by a cold, dry climate in which vegetation is sparse and lacking in diversity.

    It is not known where the Karoo complex survived the cryocratic conditions.

    2012, Marinus J.A. Werger, A.C. van Bruggen, Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa, page 142
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    Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic , mesocratic , telocratic ) be considered as cenozones.

    1975, Valentin Abramovich Krasilov, Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants, page 229

    The first phase was the cryocratic phase which existed in the ice-free parts of a glacial period.

    2012, M. Ingrouille, Historical Ecology of the British Flora, page 73

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