biogeography

bio- +‎ geography

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

biogeography (countable and uncountable, plural biogeographies)

1. (biology, geography, uncountable) The study of the geographical distribution of living things.
2. (biology, geography, countable) The geographical distribution of a particular living thing.
   • 2004, Brian P. Hedlund, James T. Staley, “Microbial Endemism and Biogeography”, in Alan T. Bull, editor, Microbial Diversity and Bioprospecting‎, →ISBN, page 225:

     First, any international traveler knows that many pathogenic microbes, both viral and bacterial, have distinct biogeographies.

• paleobiogeography

• biogeographic
• cytogeography