ecoregion

British

/ ˈiːkəʊˌriːdʒən /

noun

an area defined by its environmental conditions, esp climate, landforms, and soil characteristics

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You won’t find the raw materials for his magisterial 1999 Pulitzer-winning geology deep-dive “Annals of the Former World,” or “The Pine Barrens,” his 1968 jaunt through the famous New Jersey ecoregion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2023

But the Caatinga ecoregion gets rainfall only a few weeks a year.

From Fox News • Dec. 5, 2018

The fewest signals of selection were seen among people who live in the humid tropics, the ecoregion where the ancestral human population evolved.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2010

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