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palaeomodeling en · NOUN

Etymology

From palaeo- + modeling.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The modeling of organism distributions in prehistoric times
    • The palaeomodeling method intersects predicted species' distributions under current conditions and climatic extremes of the Late Quaternary (6000 years before present, or 6 kybp, and 21 kybp) to predict areas of stability (regions in which species are predicted to occupy irrespective of time period) and unstable areas ( 7, 14 ). 2009 February 6, Ana Carolina Carnaval et al., “Stability Predicts Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Hotspot”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 785–789: