ecoregion

/ ˈiːkəʊˌriːdʒən /

noun

1. an area defined by its environmental conditions, esp climate, landforms, and soil characteristics

Example Sentences

"In other words, we're not seeing an indication that there are proportionally more human-caused ignitions than there have been in the past. In the Southern Coastal Plain, which includes much of Florida, lightning ignitions played an important role, too, contributing more to the total area burned in the ecoregion despite being a less frequent cause of large wildfire ignition."

From Science Daily

"We share an aquifer and a geological foundation with over 30 communities in our ecoregion. So, though the news for Plymouth is good, more importantly we now have a scientific foundation -- and new methods for evaluating susceptibility to saltwater intrusion -- that are transferrable to those other communities and will help inform Plymouth's and other communities' planning for years to come."

From Science Daily

You won’t find the raw materials for his magisterial 1999 Pulitzer-winning geology deep-dive “Annals of the Former World,” or “The Pine Barrens,” his 1968 jaunt through the famous New Jersey ecoregion.

From Los Angeles Times

Think of what a desert the desert might have become had Jack Nicklaus not whacked so many hundred-year-old saguaro cacti to introduce elevation changes and rolling Scottish-style fairways to the Sonoran ecoregion so that mid-level executives could play annual corporate outings at places named Cochise and Geronimo.

From Washington Post

The area is largely undeveloped and is part of the Post Oak Savannah, an “ecoregion” of 8.5 million acres that runs along East Texas from the Red River to south of Houston.

From Washington Post