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bioregion

(bī′ō-rē′jən)
n.
An area bounded by natural rather than artificial borders that has characteristic flora and fauna and includes one or more ecosystems.

bi′o·re′gion·al adj.
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it does not mean that every bioregion would be likely to heed the values
Equalized scores for these 7 metrics were summed to calculate a "bioregion score." The maximum possible bioregion score was 42; scores of 32 or higher (top quartile, or 25%) indicate non-impaired stream conditions.
En los eventos es notoria la coherencia de todos los actores comprometidos, la claridad de su papel y la necesidad del trabajo armonico en redes, para desarrollar nuevos productos biotecnologicos y mejorar la competitividad de la bioregion, digno ejemplo para quienes participamos y tenemos el compromiso de irradiar estos procesos en nuestro pais.
Perhaps nobody has taken the task more to heart than Gary Snyder, who dedicated a collection of poetry to his bioregion, the San Juan Ridge of the Sierra Nevada.
En proceso liderado desde Corporacion Biotec, como parte de la Agenda departamental de C&T, en 2004 se formula una ampliacion del contexto regional, a traves de la Estrategia BIOREGION Valle del Cauca (12), como iniciativa pionera en Colombia, de desarrollo basado en conocimiento.
Its findings are directly relevant to the 4.5Mha cleared under the LDFBS, and the broader 36.7Mha of the brigalow bioregion (Department of Environment and Heritage 2006), of which about 21.4Mha (53%) has been cleared for agricultural production (National Land and Water Resources Audit 2002).
Bioregionalism, as stated above, is a view of the world defined not by political borders but by ecological borders between distinct ecosystems or "bioregions." Bioregionalism suggests a shared identity among people who live in the same ecosystem.
Description of the California Bay Area/Delta bioregion. California is one of the premier agricultural areas of the world, generating over $30 billion income per year (California Agricultural Statistics Service, 2002).
municipality or bioregion) to the coupled dynamics of climatic, ecological and societal surprise?
Therefore, we must extract and use materials in such a way that they do not systematically accumulate in the biosphere, any bioregion, or any ecosystem.
*Scanbalt Forum: The fourth ScanBalt forum will be held in Oslo (Norway) on November 3 and 4 with the aim of providing opportunities for collaboration, the initiation of new projects and a dialogue with policy makers and key figures in the ScanBalt BioRegion. There will be an extensive range of sessions presented by some of the BioRegions best scientific and business leaders.
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