Ecoregion definition

Ecoregion means an area of relative homogeneity in ecological systems based on similar soils, land use, land surface form, and potential natural vegetation. Minnesota ecoregions are shown on the map in part 7050.0468.
Ecoregion means a geographical area within which ecosystems and the type, quality and quantity of environmental resources are generally similar, as more specifically described in EPA's 1997 revision of Omernick, "Ecoregions of the Conterminous United States", Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
Ecoregion means an area of relative homogeneity in ecological systems based on similar soils, land use, land surface form, and potential natural vegetation.

Examples of Ecoregion in a sentence

  • Current condition of low elevation (< 5000 feet) grasslands for nine landowner categories and seven National Forests in Arizona and parts of New Mexico that fall within the Apache Highlands Ecoregion.

  • This statewide assessment (which also includes the portions of southwest New Mexico and Mexico that are within the Apache- Highlands Ecoregion; Figure 2-1) was developed through a combination of expert-based mapping and intensive, quantitative field sampling to verify and improve accuracy.

  • Ecoregion Conservation Analysis of the Arizona-New Mexico Mountains.

  • Area (acres) identified as low elevation (<5000 feet) historic grasslands (Schussman and Gori 2004) for nine major landowners and seven National Forests in Arizona and parts of New Mexico that fall within the Apache Highlands Ecoregion.

  • The Arizona Statewide Grasslands Assessment (Schussman and Gori 2004, Gori and Enquist 2003) GIS-based layer depicts the condition of grasslands across Arizona, as well as parts of southwest New Mexico and north central Mexico that occur withinthe Apache Highlands Ecoregion.

  • A Level 1 Ecoregion Classification System for South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland.

  • River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal Ecoregion.

  • An abbreviated version of this paper was presented at Planning for Biodiversity: Bringing Research and Management Together, a Symposium for the California South Coast Ecoregion, February 29-March 2, 2000, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA.

  • B., (1997), Effects of Urbanization on Small Streams in the Puget Sound Lowland Ecoregion: Watershed Protection Techniques, v.

  • For the purposes of policy 2.1.4(a), site alteration does not include underground or surface mining of minerals or advanced exploration on mining lands in significant areas of mineral potential in Ecoregion 5E, where advanced exploration has the same meaning as in the Mining Act.


More Definitions of Ecoregion

Ecoregion means an ecoregion identified in the document entitled “The Ecosystems of Ontario, Part 1: Ecozones and Ecoregions” that is published by the Ministry of Natural Resources, dated 2009 and available to the public at the Ministry’s district offices, at the Ministry’s corporate library in Peterborough or on the Ministry’s website. (“écorégion”) O. Reg. 65/12, s. 3.
Ecoregion means a geographic region of relatively homogenous ecological systems. For the purposes of the wetland mitigation banking rules, the mapped sub- subsections found in the publication entitled "Regional Landscape Ecosystems of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin," Dennis A. Albert, 1994, north central forest experiment station, United States department of agriculture, shall be used to identify ecoregion boundaries.
Ecoregion means an area of relative homogeneity in ecological systems based

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