mesocratic
nounEtymology From meso- + -cratic.
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Biology, Ecology, Natural sciences The second stage of interglacial forest development (Early-Temperate), characterized by a transitional mix of light-demanding and shade-tolerant species.
- 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:
- Hence, regional soil degenerations and podsolization was probably an important factor contributing to the retrogressive change in the forest composition at the end of the mesocratic phase..1987, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, page 10:
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- The fully developed mesocratic woodland had a somewhat different character..2012, M. Ingrouille, Historical Ecology of the British Flora, page 76:
- Coordinate terms
- cryocratic, protocratic, oligocratic, telocratic