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  • QUIZ QUESTION

    Well, not so much a quiz question but I don't know the answer to it anyway. All my interesting books are in storage so one of you bright people will have to inform me. Reading through a CITES paper recently the words XERIC and MESIC kept appearing in reference to forests. Can someone tell me the precise meaning of these two terms please? I thought mesic was 'towards the middle' or something like that but heaven only knows.
    Over to you...

  • #2
    Hi Carl,

    xeric = dry, dessert-like, waterless

    all the best,
    Martin
    »ARACHNE« – The Journal of the German Arachnology Society

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    • #3
      Re: QUIZ QUESTION

      Hi Carl,
      Mesic means relating to or requiring a moderate amount of moisture, xeric relates to or requiring very little moisture and here's another, hydric relates to or requiring an abundance of moisture.

      Hope this helps,
      Steve Nunn
      Australian Tarantulas website
      http://www.thedailylink.com/australiantarantulas

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      • #4
        QUIZ QUESTION

        Aha, I see.
        Thank you very much gentlemen. I am enlightened.

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        • #5
          ISnt XERIC something to do with photocopying machines???


          Maybe its paper for them

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          • #6
            Don't tell the elf!

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