ecotype

noun

ecotype

noun

Etymology From eco- + type, coined by Swedish botanist Göte Turesson in 1922 and modeled on the earlier ecospecies.

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Biology, Ecology, Natural sciences A phenotype that is adapted to a specific environment.

These four Japanese introductions probably were of the Japonica ecotype.1995, C. Wayne Smith, Crop Production: Evolution, History, and Technology, page 234:
She collected rhizomes of two ecotypes, a northern ecotype originally from Yellowstone County, Montana, and a southern ecotype from an agricultural field near Hollister, California.1997, Steven R. Radosevich, Jodie S. Holt, Claudio Ghersa, Weed Ecology: Implications for Management, page 78:

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The more interesting question is, What is the difference between an endemic and an ecotype?1997, Mark R. Macnair, “The evolution of plants in metal-contaminated environments”, in Rudolf Bijlsma, Volker Loeschcke, editors, Environmental Stress, Adaptation, and Evolution, page 19:

Related terms: ecotypic, subecotype

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