Ecotypeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

ecotype (plural ecotypes)

1. (ecology) A phenotype that is adapted to a specific environment.

   Synonym: ecospecies

   • 1995, C. Wayne Smith, Crop Production: Evolution, History, and Technology‎, 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?

関連する語

• ecotypic
• subecotype

参照

Further reading

• ecotype on Wikipedia.Wikipedia