collocation · academic
range shift
/reɪndʒ ʃɪft/RANGE SHIFT
Band 7+task2speaking
Movement of a species' geographic distribution in response to environmental change.
Examples
“Warming seas have caused a poleward range shift in several fish species.”
“Range shifts are often tracked using long-term survey data.”
“Altitudinal range shifts are common in mountain ecosystems as temperatures rise.”
Band 8 sentence
“Rapid warming has produced a clear poleward range shift in multiple butterfly species across the region.”
Collocations
- poleward range shift
- altitudinal range shift
Word family
range nounshift noun/verb
Common mistakes
migration→range shift
species move→range shift
Say it for a higher band
5migration→6distribution change→7+range shift
Synonyms
distribution shift
Easily confused
migration
“Many bird species migrate south in the winter.”
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