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paleontology, a relict is a population or taxon of organisms that was more widespread or more diverse in the past. A relictual population is a population currently...

A relict is a surviving remnant of a natural phenomenon. A relict (or relic) is an organism that at an earlier time was abundant in a large area but now...

"The snails the dinosaurs saw: are the pleurocerid populations of the Older Appalachians a relict of the Paleozoic Era?". Journal of the North American...

refugium (plural: refugia) is a location which supports an isolated or relict population of a once more widespread species. This isolation (allopatry) can...

Lyall's wren became extinct on the main islands and survived only as a relict population on Stephens Island in the Cook Strait. Lyall's wren and the bushwren...

A glacial relict is a population of a species previously common during a glacial period that retreated into refugia during interglacial periods. They are...

(1–3). SpringerLink: 81–86. doi:10.1023/A:1003592123079. Another relict population [of Nile crocodiles], in the Tagant hills of Mauretania, was found...

South Africa and Namibia (Brandberg Massif), although the modern relict population of Tanzaniophasma subsolana in Tanzania and Eocene fossils suggest...

south in India has led to two hypotheses — either the Brahuis are a relict population of Dravidians remaining from a time when Dravidians were more widespread...

the Soviet Academy of Sciences proposed that the Almasti could be a relict population of Neanderthals still living in Siberia. In 1992, a group of scientists...

Guadalajara and Salamanca. A southern relict population has survived in Andalusia, although contrary to the populations in the northwest and center of the...

Ian Cameron's The Mountains at the Bottom of the World (1972) has a relict population of Paranthropus living not quite in Antarctica, but in the southern...

Gobi bear clusters with the Himalayan brown bear and may represent a relict population of this subspecies. The bears go into hibernation around October and...

Guadalupe; Devall, Margaret S.; Alvarez-Aquino, Claudia (2000). "A Relict Population of Fagus grandifolia var. mexicana at the Acatlan Volcano, Mexico:...

in honor of American zoologist George T. Baxter who discovered the relict population. The Wyoming toad, common until the 1950s, became significantly fewer...

that shares the same water supply Refugium (population biology), a location of an isolated or relict population of a once widespread animal or plant species...

where it has its last relict population. Environmental issues include destructive farming practices as a result of population pressure, illegal hunting...

warblers, flycatchers and thrushes. The forest patch is also home for a relict population of the Nilgiri woodpigeon. A breeding pair of shaheen falcon, the...

June 2010 may represent either a recolonisation from Scotland, or a relict population that has escaped notice previously. There have been numerous reported...

of Guaymas. It is relatively restricted, and is suspected to be a relict population in Sonora. It has the least number of plants in the palm oases that...