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HOLARCTIC [4 records]

Record 1 2000-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Birds
CONT

This map illustrates each species’ world breeding range, and is particularly useful in understanding the distribution of circumpolar, circumboreal, holarctic, and Nearctic species.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oiseaux
CONT

Cette représentation est très utile pour comprendre la répartition des espèces, certaines étant circumpolaires, d'autres circumboréales, d'autres encore holarctiques ou néarctiques.

Spanish

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Record 2 2000-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Birds
  • Animal Behaviour
CONT

This map illustrates each species’ world breeding range, and is particularly useful in understanding the distribution of circumpolar, circumboreal, holarctic, and Nearctic species.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oiseaux
  • Comportement animal
CONT

Cette carte permet de visualiser l'ensemble de l'aire de nidification de chaque espèce, dans son contexte mondial.

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biogeography
DEF

Of or pertaining to the entire northern or arctic region, as the holarctic region, or holarctic family of birds.

CONT

Mexico is in a zone where two biogeographical kingdoms converge, and this unique type of vegetation has tropical and holarctic elements.

OBS

Mr. P. Sclater divided the surface of the globe into six great zoological regions, two of which, the "Palæarctic" and "Nearctic", comprised the Old and the New World respectively north of the Tropic of Cancer(nearly). It has since been proposed to unite these into one region, to which Prof. A. Newton has applied the term "holarctic". It corresponds essentially to Huxley's "arctogæal".

PHR

Holarctic ecology, falcon, fauna, genus, region.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biogéographie
DEF

[Qui se rapporte à la] région [biogéographique] de l'hémisphère boréal, au nord de la Méditerranée en Europe, comprenant toute la Sibérie, le Nord de la Chine, la majeure partie de l'Amérique du Nord.

OBS

[Cette] région [...] comprend l'Ancien Monde (Paléarctique et Eurasie) et le Nouveau Monde (Néarctique et Amérique du Nord).

CONT

Harfang des neiges. [...] Type faunique : holarctique. Habitant de la toundra, on le rencontre nicheur dans le nord de l'Alaska, des Territoires du Nord-Ouest, du Québec et dans les îles de l'Arctique. Il occupe également le pourtour du Groenland, l'Islande, les grandes îles de l'Arctique eurasiatique, ainsi que la toundra de la Scandinavie à la Sibérie. Il hiverne jusqu'au nord des États-Unis, parfois plus au sud, au centre de l'Europe, en Russie, au nord de la Chine et au Japon.

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Biogeography
CONT

Fynbos spread relatively rapidly from more northern regions into the present Capensis region occupying infertile soils.

CONT

The genus Melica is common in Eurasia, North America(forests), in the austral South America and in Capensis.... subgen. Melica(mesophytic forms) of the broad-leaved forests of the holarctic region, with the section Dalycum Dum.(xeromorphic forms) in the(sub) meridional Eurasia and in the Capensis region.

OBS

A floral region including the Cape of Good Hope.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Biogéographie
OBS

(Zone floristique) ne comprenant que la pointe méridionale de l'Afrique dans la région du Cap.

Spanish

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