Talk:Geotope

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I have posted an invitation on the German Geotop page inviting editors to attempt an expansion of the English page based on the German information (not a precise translation, but a correspondence of meanings). BeeTea 00:13, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't claim to be a specialist in geotopes, but I know the matter from the beginning in about 1990 when I became roommate of Dr. Friedhelm Wiedenbein at the university. I would suggest not to assign it to ecology, but to geology. He was senior geologist at the geological institute in Erlangen and geotopes were very essential part of his work. He started to promote this term about 1990! It was loaned from the at this time already familiar term biotope. As far as I know Friedhelm was the inventor of this new term and thus I very much appreciate to have found his name here in the references (especially as it is not named in German Wikipedia! However I will take this as a call.)

The meaning of the term Geotope used in ecology is different and in German Wikipedia discribed here: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotop_(Landschaftsökologie)

Harald Rost 46.115.69.187 (talk) 21:43, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

And sorry to say this: "Geotope is the geological component of the abiotic matrix present in an ecotope" seems to be a tried mixture of both explanations and thus is not correct for each of the two. Unfortunately I cannot assist in improvements myself as of obvious language reasons :) 46.115.69.187 (talk) 22:17, 1 March 2014 (UTC)