zoogeography; animal geography
Academic term for the study of the geographical distribution of animal species.
Zoogeography is the field that studies the distribution of animals.
植物地理 refers to phytogeography or plant geography, the study of plant distribution, while 動物地理 focuses on animals.
zoogeographical region
Compound of 動物 (animal) and 地理 (geography), a straightforward calque of the Western academic term zoogeography.