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biogeographer

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[bahy-oh-jee-ahg-ruhf-er] / ˌbaɪ oʊ dʒiˈɑg rəf ər /

noun

  • biogeographers
    plural
  1. a scientist who specializes in biogeography.


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“It was just the most phenomenal data set,” says the study’s lead author Neil Saintilan, a biogeographer at Macquarie University in Australia.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 1, 2022

Some of these were catalogued in a viral Twitter thread by Huw Griffiths, a marine biogeographer with the British Antarctic Survey and science communicator.

From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2022

“We need to collect those species before they are gone,” says González-Orozco, a biogeographer with Agrosavia.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2018

Leslie Rissler is an evolutionary ecologist and biogeographer who taught an upper-level evolution course for biology majors for more than 10 years at the University of Alabama.

From Slate ● May 26, 2015

In the old scenario, "only humans have culture", says Jason Kamilar, a biogeographer in the department of anthropology at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

From Nature ● Aug. 17, 2011

These two factors, latitude and age, are two of several hypotheses biogeographers have suggested to explain biodiversity patterns on Earth.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018

The work of biogeographers is critical to understanding our physical environment, how the environment affects species, and how changes in environment impact the distribution of a species.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018

The movement of organisms around such habitats generates genetic connections between regions that have long been appreciated by biogeographers and geneticists.

From Nature ● Jul. 10, 2018

The work of biogeographers is critical to understanding our physical environment, how the environment affects species, and how environmental changes impact the distribution of a species; it has also been critical to developing evolutionary theory.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

In short, before they became linked as the independent discoverers of natural selection, Darwin and Wallace had already become the first modern historical biogeographers.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2014

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