biogeographic
BY-oh-jee-uh-GRAF-ik
Definition
Relating to the geographic distribution of plants and animals across the planet's surface.
Etymology
The word is a combination of the Greek 'bios' (life) and 'geographia' (geography), emerging in the 19th century to describe the study of the spatial distribution of organisms.
In the news
The article uses the term to describe regions of the Caribbean categorized by their unique ecological and geographical characteristics, highlighting that scientists studied lionfish across these diverse areas.
Aquarium releases probably seeded the Atlantic lionfish invasion; with females producing about two million eggs a year and almost no predators capable of controlling them, the fish colonised 7.3 million square kilometres of the western Atlantic and Caribbean
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