What is Catena?

 

Ca-tena.   ka-'tE-na. n.

Etymology: Medieval Latin, from Latin, chain

1. A closely linked series.

2. A non-taxonomic group of soils having unlike characteristics because of variations in relief and drainage.

3. Ensemble of contiguous plant communities ordered by any changing ecological factor; landscape representation of zonation phenomena.

 

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