ecotype
English
Etymology
From eco- + type, coined in 1922 by Swedish botanist Göte Turesson.
Noun
ecotype (plural ecotypes)
- (ecology) A phenotype that is adapted to a specific environment.
- Synonym: ecospecies
- 1995, C. Wayne Smith, Crop Production: Evolution, History, and Technology[1], page 234:
- These four Japanese introductions probably were of the Japonica ecotype.
- 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?
Translations
organism adapted to an environment