subrefugium

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

sub- +‎ refugium

Noun[edit]

subrefugium (plural subrefugia)

  1. A subordinate refugium
    • 2015 November 14, “Three in One—Multiple Faunal Elements within an Endangered European Butterfly Species”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      This refugium may have been in close contact with a Slovenian refugium, which might have been just a subrefugium of the former, in which stronger postglacial introgression processes led to its populations’ uniqueness.