oligocratic
English
editAdjective
editoligocratic (comparative more oligocratic, superlative most oligocratic)
- Of or relating to oligocracy.
Noun
editoligocratic (uncountable)
- (ecology) The third and penultimate stage of interglacial forest development (Late-Temperate), characterized by shade-tolerant species that tolerate leaching of the soil.
- 1982, John D. Hamaker, Donald A. Weaver, The Survival of Civilization Depends Upon Our Solving Three Problems, page 64:
- Significantly, his pollen deposits reveal the conditions both in the oligocratic and the telocratic .
- 2004, Richard John Huggett, Fundamentals of Biogeography, page 319:
- During the first part of the oligocratic stage, leaching of brown soils produces acid podzols that favour coniferous woodlands and heaths.
- 2012, M. Ingrouille, Historical Ecology of the British Flora, page 76:
- Carpinus (hornbeam) behaved much more strongly as an oligocratic species than before; its pollen frequency not rising until quite late in the stage.
- 2014, Antoinette Mannion, Global Environmental Change, page 71:
- Palaeoenvironmental evidence from northwest Europe indicates that the oligocratic phase of the interglacial cycle (Fig. 3.1) had begun by ca. 5K years BP.