ecotype
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English
Etymology
From eco- + type, coined by Swedish botanist Göte Turesson in 1922 and modeled on the earlier ecospecies.[1]
Noun
ecotype (plural ecotypes)
- (ecology) A phenotype that is adapted to a specific environment.
- Synonym: ecospecies
- 1997, Steven R. Radosevich, Jodie S. Holt, Claudio Ghersa, Weed Ecology: Implications for Management, page 78:
- 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, Mark R. Macnair, “The evolution of plants in metal-contaminated environments”, in Rudolf Bijlsma, Volker Loeschcke, editors, Environmental Stress, Adaptation, and Evolution, page 19:
- The more interesting question is, What is the difference between an endemic and an ecotype?
Related terms
Translations
organism adapted to an environment
References
- ^ Göte Turesson (1922 April) “The Species and the Variety as Ecological Units”, in Robert Larsson, editor, Hereditas, volume 3, number 1, Mendelian Society of Lund, , →ISSN, page 112:
- The term ecotype is proposed here as ecological unit to cover the product arising as a result of the genotypical response of an ecospecies to a particular habitat. The ecotypes are then the ecological sub-units of the ecospecies, while the genotypes are the purely Mendelian sub-units of the genospecies.
