zoosphere

English

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Etymology

zoo- +‎ -sphere

Noun

zoosphere (countable and uncountable, plural zoospheres)

  1. The animals of the Earth, especially as an ecosystem.
    • 2017 March 6, Roger Scruton, “If We Are Not Just Animals, What Are We?”, in The New York Times‎:
      For quite clearly, although we are animals, bound in the web of causality that joins us to the zoosphere, we are not just animals.
  2. (ecology) A layer in which animals are present.
    • 1988, Wolfgang Reichardt, “Impact of the Antarctic Benthic Fauna on the Enrichment of Biopolymer Degrading Psychrophilic Bacteria”, in Microbial Ecology, volume 15, number 3, page 319:
      […] this mode of selection does not seem to apply to the zoosphere of the investigated Antarctic sediments.
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