palaeomodeling

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noun

The modeling of organism distributions in prehistoric times

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Meanings

nounpalaeomodeling (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe modeling of organism distributions in prehistoric times
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    The palaeomodeling method intersects predicted species' distributions under current conditions and climatic extremes of the Late Quaternary (6000 years before present, or 6 kybp, and 21 kybp) to predict areas of stability (regions in which species are predicted to occupy irrespective of time period) and unstable areas ( 7, 14 ).

    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- + modeling.

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