Crossword clues for colonisation
colonisation
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of colonization; see also -ize.
Wiktionary
n. (label en British spelling) (alternative spelling of colonization English)
WordNet
n. the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America" [syn: colonization, settlement]
Wikipedia
Colonisation or colonization is the process in biology by which a species spreads to new areas. Colonisation often refers to successful immigration where a population becomes integrated into a community, having resisted initial local extinction.
One classic model in biogeography posits that species must continue to colonize new areas through its life cycle (called a taxon cycle) in order to achieve longevity. Accordingly, colonisation and extinction are key components of island biogeography, a theory that has many applications in ecology, such as metapopulations.
Usage examples of "colonisation".
Chapter XII Geographical Distribution -- continued Distribution of fresh-water productions -- On the inhabitants of oceanic islands -- Absence of Batrachians and of terrestrial Mammals -- On the relation of the inhabitants of islands to those of the nearest mainland -- On colonisation from the nearest source with subsequent modification -- Summary of the last and present chapters.
Chapter XII Geographical Distribution--continued Distribution of fresh-water productions -- On the inhabitants of oceanic islands -- Absence of Batrachians and of terrestrial Mammals -- On the relation of the inhabitants of islands to those of the nearest mainland -- On colonisation from the nearest source with subsequent modification -- Summary of the last and present chapters.
The colonisation of New Athens, in 197: Lundren himself had led the dissatisfied multitude, a motley herd seeking a place where they could live their lives as they wished.
A paradoxical man, the peace-loving Lundren, who played such a large part in the colonisation of New Athens in 197, later entered the harsh world of politics, admittedly less vicious on New Athens than anywhere else in the charted universe.
They were biological engineers rather than scientists, their main concern being to improve the strains of their meat-producing and wool-bearing animals, descended in the main from the spermatozoa and ova which Lode Jumbukas did all colonisation vessels of her periodhad carried under refrigeration.
They developed further the fact that they were not acting solely, or even principally, in their own behalf, but were the agents of people in England who had projected the colonisation of a sort of community on the spot, somewhat after the plan of other English dreamers, and that they were satisfied, from a careful inspection, that the resources and facilities were those best calculated to develop the energy and enterprise of the proposed community.
While man's increasing efficiency of food-production, combined with colonisation of whole virgin continents, has for generations given the apparent lie to Malthus' mathematical statement of the Law of Population, nevertheless the essential significance of his doctrine remains and cannot be challenged.
A large group of Ryxi were awaiting transport to Arrutan's fifth planet which was to be thoroughly investigated as suitable for colonisation by their species.
The East-Indian and Chinese markets, the colonisation of America, trade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in commodities generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development.
EEC regulations required that an Evaluation Team locate at least five potential landing sites on a planet intended for colonisation.
It had started to slacken off its involvement, and stand down the forces it had secretly brought up to near the Chelgrian sphere of influence and colonisation in case things went wrong, when, without any warning, it had all gone quite spectacularly wrong.