单词 | life zone |
释义 | > as lemmaslife zone life zone n. Ecology (a) a zone in which life occurs, or in which the greatest number of living organisms may be found; (spec.) that down to a certain depth in the sea; (b) chiefly North American a geographical area or zone and its associated ecosystems or communities, either on a large scale (a biome) or, more usually, on a small scale (as an altitudinal zone). ΚΠ 1866 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 352 The Antwerp crag series presents two conditions of sea-bed, a deepish-water and life-zone formation, corresponding to the ooze-depths of existing seas. 1893 Auk 10 287 Map 2 illustrates the ‘Lower Sonoran Life Zone’, which is ‘the area in which the raising [sic] grape may be successfully produced.’ 1949 W. C. Allee et al. Princ. Animal Ecol. xxx. 593 The life zone concept..is useful in the description of altitude zonation in mountains..in spite of a wholly erroneous theoretical base. 1992 Nature Canada Spring 54/3 Biologically,..[the Arctic] is a life zone characterized by a treeless landscape inhabited by hardy dwarf vegetation and a group of animals particularly well adapted to life in an extremely cold and harsh environment. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 Mar. v. 9/5 The miraculous layers of life that these ‘islands’ sustain dramatize Merriam's breakthrough notion of the life zone... Each 1,000-foot rise in elevation is equivalent to traveling 300 miles north. < as lemmas |
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