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Definition of Holarctic

Holarctic
Holarctic Hol"arc*tic, a. [Holo- + arctic.] Of or pert. to the arctic regions collectively; specif. (Zo["o]geography), designating a realm or region including the northern parts of the Old and the New World. It comprises the Palearctic and Nearctic regions or subregions.

Meaning of Holarctic from wikipedia

- The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds...
- The Boreal kingdom or Holarctic kingdom (Holarctis) is a floristic kingdom identified (1947) by botanist Ronald Good (and later by Armen Takhtajan), which...
- The Late Cenozoic Ice Age, or Antarctic Glaciation, began 34 million years ago at the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary and is ongoing. It is Earth's current ice...
- and containing six living genera. Well-known members of this largely Holarctic group are the marmots (Marmota), including the American groundhog, the...
- to alpine lakes, as well as Arctic and subarctic coastal waters in the Holarctic. It spawns in freshwater and its po****tions can be lacustrine, riverine...
- traditional magpies, two distinct lineages apparently exist. One consists of Holarctic species with black and white colouration, and is probably closely related...
- It has been published since 1978, the first 14 volumes under the name Holarctic Ecology. Ecography is published in collaboration with Oikos, Journal of...
- List of Recent Holarctic Bird Species is a 1977 book by Karel H. Voous, published by the British Ornithologists' Union. It contains a list of 1,921 bird...
- placed in the genus Acanthis. It breeds in the Arctic and north temperate Holarctic tundra and taiga. The redpoll was formerly widely treated as three species:...
- Hesperia comma, the silver-spotted skipper or common branded skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is known as silver-spotted skipper in...