palaeodistribution

A form of paleodistribution — The distribution of organisms in prehistoric times.

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Meanings

nounpalaeodistribution (plural palaeodistributions)

plural palaeodistributions

  1. alternativeAlternative form of paleodistribution.

    Building on them, we first map the palaeodistribution of endemic species to identify temporally stable (refugial) and unstable (recently colonized) regions for species occurrence, which are then validated with multispecies molecular data.

    2009 February 6, Ana Carolina Carnaval et al., “Stability Predicts Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Hotspot”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 785–789

Origin

From palaeo- + distribution.

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