I can't tell the difference between the area of where and the area where [closed]
Conservation: a People Centred Approach By Francis Gilbert, Hilary Gilbert
The impact of climate change on animals and plants interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation. This is because the main effect of climate change is to shift the area of where any one species can live successfully. In a warming world, this habitable space moves either polewards across the landscape, to the North or South, or up in elevation, with species living higher up mountains than ever before. This happens because the area where the mean temperature is 15°C, for example, shifts in these directions under global warming. Survival then depends on whether a particular species can move, and if so, whether there is a suitable pathway for the movements to happen. Neither of these things can be assumed, and where habitats become too fragmented, a suitable pathway for organisms to move to other areas becomes less of a realistic possibility.
— Conservation: a People Centred Approach, Francis Gilbert/Hilary Gilbert, OUP 2019
Q. I want to know the difference between A and B. A : This is because the main effect of climate change is to shift the area of where any one species can live successfully.
B : This is because the main effect of climate change is to shift the area where any one species can live successfully.
- My research
Searching for where usage From Cambridge
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Where as a relative pronoun The hotel where we spent our honeymoon has been demolished.
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We can use where in indirect questions: I asked him where I could buy an umbrella.
Solution 1:
One of the meanings of “of” is
typical or characteristic of
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As the author embarked on their train of thought, they wished to distinguish between an area that can move and one that cannot.
For example, the area within the Swiss frontiers is presently fixed, whereas the area occupied by the flower species Edelweiss may move according to climate change and shifting management regimes.
Hence it is reasonable to refer to the area “where the Edelweiss presently grows” but to refer to the area of (= typical or characteristic of) “where it might grow”.
The distinction is small but useful in discussing how stationary or slowly moving areas of living species interact with faster moving zones characterised by crucial climate or mini-climate.