Definition & Meaning | English word EDAPHIC
EDAPHIC
Definitions of EDAPHIC
- (geography) Relating to, or determined by, conditions of the soil, especially as it relates to biological systems.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using EDAPHIC in a Sentence
- McLeod's study stated that the Big Thicket was "an edaphicmesophytic climax forest" – edaphic, meaning the soil is a greater influence on the plants than the climate, and mesophytic meaning a medium moisture level.
- edaphic factors are abiotic factors regarding soil, such as the coarseness of soil, local geology, soil pH, and aeration; and.
- Market ideotype, climatic ideotype, edaphic ideotype, stress ideotype and disease/pest ideotypes are its other concepts.
- Monolopia major has very high to strict edaphic affinity for clay soils, particularly vertic clay (smectite; montmorillonite) soils.
- One study looking at the ameroseiids of Slovakia (27 species total) found that eight species were edaphic (associated with soils, usually wet soils), another eight species were saproxylic (in dead wood and associated fungi), two species were saprophilous (in dunghills, excrements and compost heaps), eight species were aerial (spread around by air currents, allowing them to colonise ephemeral and scattered habitats), and one species was insecticolous (associated with insects, in this case European honey bee).
- This edaphic transformation is least conductive to the appearance of afforest vegetation, but usually supports inly a low-stature vegetation such as fenland dominated by kekilla (Dicrnopteris linearis).
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