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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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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

"You've got an entire ecosystem that is largely unprotected in the mesophotic coral reefs around the world," said John Guinotte, a marine biogeographer with the Marine Conservation Institute and a co-author on the commentary.

From Scientific American May 29, 2013

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

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

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 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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