Oligocratic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Oligocratic is an adjective meaning Of or relating to oligocracy.
Meaning
Of or relating to oligocracy.
More Meanings
- (ecology) The third and penultimate stage of interglacial forest development (Late-Temperate), characterized by shade-tolerant species that tolerate leaching of the soil.
Example Sentences
Significantly, his pollen deposits reveal the conditions both in the oligocratic and the telocratic .
During the first part of the oligocratic stage, leaching of brown soils produces acid podzols that favour coniferous woodlands and heaths.
Carpinus (hornbeam) behaved much more strongly as an oligocratic species than before; its pollen frequency not rising until quite late in the stage.
Palaeoenvironmental evidence from northwest Europe indicates that the oligocratic phase of the interglacial cycle (Fig. 3.1) had begun by ca. 5K years BP.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include oligarchic, oligarchal, oligolectic, oligomeric, oligosomal, oligogynous.
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