chorology

thumb|300px|Distribution map of European beech (Fagus sylvatica) : historical range, current range, and occasional observations. Chorology (from Greek , , "place, space"; and , -logia) can mean the study of the causal relations between geographical phenomena occurring within a particular region the study of the spatial distribution of organisms (biogeography).

==Use== The Greek geographer, Strabo (64 or 63 BC – 24AD) wrote in his work Geographica that a geographer is "the person who attempts to describe the parts of the earth" (in Greek, chorographein).