cryocratic
noun1
The glacial phase of ecological development, characterized by a cold, dry climate in which vegetation is sparse and lacking in diversity.
- Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic , mesocratic , telocratic ) be considered as cenozones.1975, Valentin Abramovich Krasilov, Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants, page 229:
- It is not known where the Karoo complex survived the cryocratic conditions.2012, Marinus J.A. Werger, A.C. van Bruggen, Biogeography and Ecology of Southern Africa, page 142:
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- The first phase was the cryocratic phase which existed in the ice-free parts of a glacial period.2012, M. Ingrouille, Historical Ecology of the British Flora, page 73:
- Coordinate terms
- protocratic, mesocratic, oligocratic, telocratic