geographic range

noun

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1. the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible to the eye at a given elevation, assuming that the weather is clear and that the light is sufficiently powerful to be visible from any point at which it appears above the horizon.

Example Sentences

As the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment notes, “A changing climate may create conditions favorable for invasive mosquito species to expand their geographic range into California.”

From Los Angeles Times

With this enormous extension of its geographic range, Australian brook lamprey becomes the only lamprey species in the world to live in truly tropical waters.

From Science Daily

This extinction occurred despite their differences in size, adaptations, habitat and geographic range.

From Science Daily

This has hampered palaeontologists' study of Protemnodon in the past, making it difficult to say how many species there were, how to tell them apart -- and how the species differed in size, geographic range, movement and adaptations to their natural environments.

From Science Daily

The team employed cutting-edge genetic sequencing technology alongside traditional measurements of their physical appearance and geographic range data to redefine species boundaries within the Eunota circumpicta species complex.

From Science Daily