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oligocratic en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Of or relating to oligocracy.

Forms

oligocratic en · NOUN

Meanings

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

Coordinates

cryocratic · protocratic · mesocratic · telocratic