Sentence examples for the refugium from inspiring English sources
noun
Any local environment that has escaped regional ecological change and therefore provides a habitat for endangered species.
Martin's Church; 1452), A-Kerk (a Gothic church; 1253), the old Ommelanderhuis (former extraterritorial venue of the representatives of the Ommelanden) in the refugium of an abbey, picturesque homes for old people, and 16th- and 17th-century houses.
Following 18 months of scandals involving many of the former stars on Europe's growth markets, the Refugium affair is unusual only in that it involved not a technology company but what plausibly passed as a share for widows and orphans.
Hostile climatic conditions reduce the number of L3s on pasture and therefore the refugium, which is expected to result in a higher selection pressure, accelerating development of resistance against anthelmintic drugs.
Also, this high diversity specific to the refugium population, should not be shared with nearby populations which are not part of the refugium.
However, two sources of information indicate that the refugium was located in the western parts of the breeding range.
The refugium hypothesis based on mtDNA haplogroup X analysis was corroborated by the finding of high diversity for the Druze mtDNA haplogroups H and K, with the added finding of novel lineages not shared with nearby populations.
Here we undertake a more comprehensive approach to the Colchic flora by: (a) exploring the ecological potential of different taxa in the Colchis, and (b) comparing the structure of the flora within the key refugium in the Colchis (Adjara) with that of a key refugium in Japan (Yakushima), to see whether there are similarities in the response of different families to isolation into refugia.
In one of these dry periods, the fish from the southern refugium probably colonized the right bank of the River Limpopo, including the pools belonging to Incomati River basin.
Given their distinct geographic distributions, it seems unlikely that haplotypes from clades A and C originated from the same refugium; the more likely explanation may be two separate refugia, one being the main source for post-glacial expansion in the British Isles and the other in mainland Europe.
In contrast, the consistently low levels of diversity in central Europe and the UK suggest that domestic horses in these regions largely derive from horses that were imported from the Eastern refugium, the Iberian refugium, or both.
More broadly, the corridor would also have allowed genetic exchanges between the Beringian refugium and the American middle and low latitudes.
