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单词 bioregion
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Definition of bioregion in English:

bioregion

noun ˈbʌɪəʊriːdʒənˈbaɪoʊˌridʒən
  • A region defined by characteristics of the natural environment rather than by man-made divisions.

    生物区

    Example sentencesExamples
    • By addressing the deeper needs of their employees and community, business owners can grow their companies in new ways, providing more fulfilling jobs, healthier communities, and greater economic security for their bioregions.
    • There are many lands in many bioregions, from the Keys to Arizona, Maine to Oregon, because we each fall in love with a particular and different type of beauty and abundance.
    • The Great Lakes make for a problematic bioregion because each lake has a very different ecology and history.
    • Scholars were asked to see in terms of bioregions rather than national or tribal boundaries, complicating greatly their task.
    • Our challenge is to activate and re-activate an attunement and awareness for the bioregions in which we dwell.
    • While this investment deficit is a potential problem for Indigenous landowners, it is also a concern for contiguous bioregions that abut Aboriginal land, especially national parks and pastoral properties.
    • We continually ask, ‘What kinds of experience, pedagogy, ambience, and teachers inspire students to explore and learn the specifics of living in symbiotic relationships within our bioregions?’
    • In Queensland, we have five of Australia's world heritage-listed sites; 17 of Australia's marine bioregions; and 19 of Australia's terrestrial bioregions.
    • But there are myriads of other discrete territories, such as deserts, mountain ranges, peninsulas, and islands, that function as bioregions.
    • Without a thorough understanding of the biological diversity and ecological processes of the Great Barrier Reef, it would have been impossible to define bioregions in the marine park.
    • The author argues for further study of bioregions in forest history, using East Africa's Eastern Arc Mountains as an example of an area that could benefit from this type of examination.
    • I suppose it is not news to say that there are, as yet, no actual self-empowered bioregions in the United States, nor are there likely to be in the near future.
    • Bioregionalists aim to find a balance between the resident community's needs for livelihoods and the potential for natural resources in their bioregions, as defined by ecological, economic, and social criteria.
    • The levels in this ecogeographic hierarchy include individuals, populations, communities, bioregions, bioprovinces, and the biosphere.
    • Housing development that is environmentally sustainable should have no net negative environmental impact in terms of global and local bioregions or ecosystems.
    • Because the pressures on the environment are more limited, some bioregions are remarkably intact.
    • The energy consumed by residents and the embodied energy associated with new building materials might also be compensated for in ways that creatively restore and renew bioregions.
    • Nevertheless, there are significant differences in species richness and taxonomic composition between the major Australian marine bioregions on the NE, NW, SE and S coasts and shelf faunas, the Coral Sea and subantarctic territories.
    • The vision council at the end of this year's gathering agreed by consensus that next year's gathering will take place somewhere in the ‘greater mid-Atlantic bioregions.’
    • Obviously the institutions and processes within bioregions would vary as the lands and human experiences on them vary.

Derivatives

  • bioregional

  • adjective ˌbʌɪəʊˈriːdʒ(ə)n(ə)lˈbaɪoʊˌridʒ(ə)n(ə)l
    • As for the bioregional movement itself, there are now more than 200 self-proclaimed bioregional organisations in the United States, and several in Central America and Canada as well.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the United States, it is easiest to think of watersheds as the defining bioregional unit - the Hudson Valley, for example, where I live, or the Potomoc estuary, or the Kansas River area.
      • Two years ago, I joined Ecotrust, an innovative nonprofit in Portland, Oregon, with the task of extending the rigorous pattern-language approach to the bioregional scale and social complexity of a conservation economy.
      • We urbanites can forget that bioregional peoples - living intimately with croplands, forests, fisheries, and grasslands - still make up half the planet's population.
      • But some natural processes like the migration of waterfowl are not confined to one particular region; a bioregional history of the Pacific Flyway would encompass much of the western half of North America.

Definition of bioregion in US English:

bioregion

nounˈbaɪoʊˌridʒənˈbīōˌrējən
  • A region defined by characteristics of the natural environment rather than by man-made divisions.

    生物区

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Without a thorough understanding of the biological diversity and ecological processes of the Great Barrier Reef, it would have been impossible to define bioregions in the marine park.
    • The author argues for further study of bioregions in forest history, using East Africa's Eastern Arc Mountains as an example of an area that could benefit from this type of examination.
    • Scholars were asked to see in terms of bioregions rather than national or tribal boundaries, complicating greatly their task.
    • Housing development that is environmentally sustainable should have no net negative environmental impact in terms of global and local bioregions or ecosystems.
    • By addressing the deeper needs of their employees and community, business owners can grow their companies in new ways, providing more fulfilling jobs, healthier communities, and greater economic security for their bioregions.
    • In Queensland, we have five of Australia's world heritage-listed sites; 17 of Australia's marine bioregions; and 19 of Australia's terrestrial bioregions.
    • Bioregionalists aim to find a balance between the resident community's needs for livelihoods and the potential for natural resources in their bioregions, as defined by ecological, economic, and social criteria.
    • But there are myriads of other discrete territories, such as deserts, mountain ranges, peninsulas, and islands, that function as bioregions.
    • We continually ask, ‘What kinds of experience, pedagogy, ambience, and teachers inspire students to explore and learn the specifics of living in symbiotic relationships within our bioregions?’
    • While this investment deficit is a potential problem for Indigenous landowners, it is also a concern for contiguous bioregions that abut Aboriginal land, especially national parks and pastoral properties.
    • The levels in this ecogeographic hierarchy include individuals, populations, communities, bioregions, bioprovinces, and the biosphere.
    • The energy consumed by residents and the embodied energy associated with new building materials might also be compensated for in ways that creatively restore and renew bioregions.
    • Obviously the institutions and processes within bioregions would vary as the lands and human experiences on them vary.
    • Nevertheless, there are significant differences in species richness and taxonomic composition between the major Australian marine bioregions on the NE, NW, SE and S coasts and shelf faunas, the Coral Sea and subantarctic territories.
    • There are many lands in many bioregions, from the Keys to Arizona, Maine to Oregon, because we each fall in love with a particular and different type of beauty and abundance.
    • Because the pressures on the environment are more limited, some bioregions are remarkably intact.
    • Our challenge is to activate and re-activate an attunement and awareness for the bioregions in which we dwell.
    • I suppose it is not news to say that there are, as yet, no actual self-empowered bioregions in the United States, nor are there likely to be in the near future.
    • The Great Lakes make for a problematic bioregion because each lake has a very different ecology and history.
    • The vision council at the end of this year's gathering agreed by consensus that next year's gathering will take place somewhere in the ‘greater mid-Atlantic bioregions.’
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