Spread out or distributed over a wide area; having extensive coverage or reach.
From 'broad' + 'spread' (Old English sprædan). This compound adjective appears in agricultural and ecological contexts to describe things distributed widely across terrain.
In ecology, broadspread species are actually more vulnerable than concentrated populations—if disease or climate change affects a wide area, a species that's thinly distributed everywhere gets hit harder than one concentrated in refugia.
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