Definition of "ombrotrophic" [ombrotrophic]

• Pertaining to ombrotrophy. (adjective)

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• "Monitoring of changes in permafrost distribution in subarctic Sweden as part of the Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Program [50] shows that permafrost loss causes mires to shift from ombrotrophic moss - and shrub-dominated systems to wetland systems dominated by minerotrophic vascular plants [51]."
• "Carbon dioxide and methane fluxes from the ombrotrophic parts of a subarctic mire."
• "The continued northward push of the more southern species and habitats has been outlined by Pellerin and Lavoie [14] in relation to changes in ombrotrophic bogs due to forest expansion."