Meanings
nounsubrefugium (plural subrefugia)
plural subrefugia
- A subordinate refugium
This refugium may have been in close contact with a Slovenian refugium, which might have been just a subrefugium of the former, in which stronger postglacial introgression processes led to its populations’ uniqueness.
2015 November 14, “Three in One—Multiple Faunal Elements within an Endangered European Butterfly Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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