Meanings
plural isopolls
- biologyA line on a map showing places having the same amounts of a particular pollen.
Isopoll maps can be reinterpreted to show the migration of a particular genus or ecotone through time by isochrones (equal time lines).
2013, Raymond S. Bradley, Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary, page 420
Origin
From iso- + clipping of pollen.
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