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plantas fitogeográficas

English translation: phytogeographic units


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Spanish term or phrase:unidades fitogeográficas
English translation:phytogeographic units
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22:21 Jun 10, 2011
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Science - Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-)
Spanish term or phrase: plantas fitogeográficas
This phrase comes from a report on biodiversity in Costa Rica.

CONTEXT: "La información acumulada sobre la diversidad de la flora del país llevó a que el Xxxxxxx propusiera un sistema de clasificación ecológica basado en plantas (unidades fitogeográficas). Este sirvió como el sistema de clasificación de ecosistemas que se utilizaría para determinar la representatividad del sistema nacional de áreas protegidas."
Stuart Allsop
Chile
Local time: 01:11
phytogeographic units
Explanation:
The phrase is not "plantas fitogeográficas", but "unidades fitogeográficas"
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philgoddard
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5 +5phytogeographic unitsphilgoddard
5 +1(phytogeographical/geobotanical) (operational units/floristic units)Lourdes Sanchez
3 +1plants (phytogeographical units)
Michael Powers (PhD)


  

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unidades fitogeográficas
phytogeographic units


Explanation:
The phrase is not "plantas fitogeográficas", but "unidades fitogeográficas"


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytogeography
philgoddard
Local time: 00:11
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agree  Charles Davis: You beat me by one minute, and thanks to Mike I wasn't even second. I must be getting old. I've deleted mine.
1 min
  -> That's really good of you - a lot of people don't bother deleting duplicate answers.

agree  Rachel Fell: or: phytogeographical units - http://tinyurl.com/442f3cm
1 hr

agree  chica nueva: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoría:Fitogeografía http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Phytogeography
3 hrs

agree  Michele Fauble
8 hrs

agree  neilmac: Spot on.
9 hrs
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plants (phytogeographical units)


Explanation:
plants (phytogeographical units)

[PDF] Diversity, biogeography, and photosynthetic pathways of Argusia ... File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
phytogeographical units. HOSSEIN AKHANI*. Department of Plant Sciences, School of Biology, College of Sciences, University of Tehran, PO Box ...
www.fos.ut.ac.ir/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=8c6NTPMptjA=&tab...►[PDF] Major plant communities of North America's most arid region: The ... File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
by M PEINADO - 2006 - Cited by 5 - Related articles
Schematic profile of major plant communities and phytogeographical units of San Felipe, from the lower slopes of Sierra de San ...
https://portal.uah.es/portal/page/portal/.../Plant Biosyst. ...[PDF] Phytogeography of Saudi Arabia File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
by AH Al-Nafie - Cited by 5 - Related articles
The delimitation of the frontiers between plant-regions in Saudi Arabia, especially the south western part, which ... The Official Journal of the Saudi Biological Society ..... For determining smaller phytogeographical units ...
www.saudibiosoc.com/SJBS/15-1/files/19.pdf

"phyto" from Greek means plants, so we con't have the combination of "phytogeographical plants" and in Spanish, as we can ssee, it was was separated by parentheses)

Mike




Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 01:11
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 40

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  philgoddard: The units are geographical areas, not plants.
8 mins
  -> I know they are a geographica area. I put it in parentheses to reflect the original: plantas (unidades fitogeográficas) plants (phitogeographica units)

agree  chica nueva: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Phytogeography http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoría:Fitogeografía
3 hrs
  -> Thank you, chica - Mike
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(phytogeographical/geobotanical) (operational units/floristic units)


Explanation:
This is the actual nomenclature
phytogeography is used more in Spanish while geobotany is the preferred term in English

This units are not formed by one single specie or genus (particularly in the rainforest!!) they are functional units where certain species coexist.

In English I have always managed Geobotanical (operational) units or Geobotanical floristic units

http://www.medical-answers.org/hd/index.php?t=Geobotany
http://infolib.hua.edu.vn/Fulltext/ChuyenDe2009/CD241/12.pdf

Lourdes Sanchez
Local time: 01:11
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  chica nueva: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoría:Fitogeografía http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Phytogeography
3 hrs
  -> gracias chica! creo que debi haber puesto geobotany anterior a phytogeography para haberlo hecho mas claro
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