Latin, meaning: refuge
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[fishkeeping] In fishkeeping, a refugium is an appendage to a marine, brackish, or freshwater fish tank that shares the same water supply. It is a refugium in the sense that it permits organisms to be maintained that would not survive in the main system, whether food animals, anaerobic denitrifying bacteria, or photosynthesizers. For some a...
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[population biology] In biology, a refugium (plural: refugia), sometimes termed simply a refuge or just a `fuge`, is a location of an isolated or relict population of a once more widespread species. This isolation (allopatry) can be due to climatic changes, geography, or human activities such as deforestation and overhunting. Present exampl...
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area that has retained earlier geographic conditions
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A separate tank which shares water and filtration with the main aquarium. Used for growing Nitrate reducing Algae, raising live food, and isolating inhabitants from the main tank.
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(from the article `tropical rainforest`) ...Africa, South America, Australia, peninsular India, and Antarctica. An alternative explanation for this geographic pattern is that in the Southern ...
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A locality that has escaped drastic alteration following climatic change, in constrat to the region as a whole. A refugium usually forms a center for relic species. Refugia exist widely over the Earth's surface because although, owing to glacial advance and recession, changes of climate affecting th...
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an area that remains unchanged while areas surrounding it change markedly; hence the area serves as a refuge for species requiring specific habitats (Brown and Gibson 1980:569).
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an area that remains unchanged while areas surrounding it change markedly; hence the area serves as a refuge for species requiring specific habitats (Brown and Gibson 1983:569).
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an area that remains unchanged while areas surrounding it change markedly; hence the area serves as a refuge for species requiring specific habitats (Brown and Gibson 1983569).
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