biogeography

English

Etymology

bio- +‎ geography

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

Noun

biogeography (countable and uncountable, plural biogeographies)

1. (biology, geography, uncountable) The study of the geographical distribution of living things.
2. (biology, geography, countable) The geographical distribution of a particular living thing.
   • 2004, Brian P. Hedlund, James T. Staley, “Microbial Endemism and Biogeography”, in Alan T. Bull, editor, Microbial Diversity and Bioprospecting‎^[1], →ISBN, page 225:

     First, any international traveler knows that many pathogenic microbes, both viral and bacterial, have distinct biogeographies.

Derived terms

• paleobiogeography
• panbiogeography
• phylobiogeography

 

Related terms

• biogeographic
• cytogeography

Translations

study of geographical distribution of living things

• Afrikaans: biogeografie
• Armenian: կենսաաշխարհագրություն (hy) (kensaašxarhagrutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: biocoğrafiya
• Bashkir: биогеография (biogeografiya)
• Bengali: জীবভূগোল (jibbhugōl), জৈব-ভূগোল (jōib-bhugōl)
• Bihari: जीवभूगोल
• Bulgarian: биогеография f (biogeografija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生物地理學／生物地理学 (zh) (shēngwù dìlǐxué)

• Chuvash: биогеографи (biogeografi)
• Dutch: biogeografie (nl) f
• Estonian: biogeograafia
• Finnish: eliömaantiede (fi), biogeografia
• French: biogéographie (fr) f
• Galician: bioxeografía (gl) f
• Georgian: ბიოგეოგრაფია (biogeograpia)
• German: Biogeographie (de) f
• Greek: βιογεωγραφία (el) f (viogeografía)
• Irish: bitíreolaíocht f, bithgheografaíocht f
• Italian: biogeografia (it) f
• Japanese: 生物地理学 (せいぶつちりがく, seibutsu chirigaku)
• Kazakh: биогеография (biogeografiä)
• Khmer: ជីវភូមិវិទ្យា (ji vaek phum vi tyea)
• Korean: 생물지리학(生物地理學) (saengmuljirihak)
• Kyrgyz: биогеография (biogeografiya)
• Latin: biogeographia f
• Lithuanian: biogeografija f
• Macedonian: биогеографија f (biogeografija)
• Malay: biogeografi (ms)
• Malayalam: ജൈവഭൂമിശാസ്ത്രം (jaivabhūmiśāstraṁ)
• Pashto: ژونځمکپوهنه m
• Persian: جغرافیای زیستی
• Polish: biogeografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: biogeografia (pt) f
• Russian: биогеогра́фия (ru) f (biogeográfija)
• Swedish: biogeografi (sv) c
• Tamil: உயிர்ப்புவியியல் (uyirppuviyiyal)
• Thai: ชีวภูมิศาสตร์
• Vietnamese: địa lý sinh học
• Welsh: bioddaearyddiaeth f