macrohabitat

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noun

A relatively large habitat, that contains multiple environments and multiple types of organism

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounmacrohabitat (plural macrohabitats)

plural macrohabitats

  1. biologyA relatively large habitat, that contains multiple environments and multiple types of organism
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    3) Stages of radiation: All else being equal, the following sequence of the diversification events is expected: (i) divergence with respect to macrohabitat; (ii) evolution of microhabitat choice and divergence with respect to microhabitat; (iii) divergence with respect to traits that simultaneously control the degree of local adaptation and nonrandom mating; and (iv) divergence with respect to other traits controlling survival and reproduction.

    2009 February 6, Sergey Gavrilets, Jonathan B. Losos, “Adaptive Radiation: Contrasting Theory with Data”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 732–737

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