ecotype

English

Etymology

From eco- +‎ type, coined by Swedish botanist Göte Turesson in 1922 and modeled on the earlier ecospecies.[1]

Noun

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?

Translations

References
  1. 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, →DOI, →ISSN, page 112:
    The term ecotype is proposed here as ecological unit[sic] 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.

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