ecotype

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Now if your goal is reforestation instead of just healthy pasture or other sustainable ecotype, that's different.

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

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noun

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

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Core meanings and parts of speech for ecotype.

noun

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

Example sentences

Now if your goal is reforestation instead of just healthy pasture or other sustainable ecotype, that's different.

The offshore ecotype lives in big groups and they have very complex vocal repertoire.

Coastal ecotype is a small fission-fusion society and we see a somewhat simple vocal repertoire.

See my comment below, but orcas do not switch up their food source very readily unless they are in an ecotype similar to the transients found in the Pacific Northwest.

Global Climate Change and Human Health, 2021 - John Wiley & Sons Wildfire, by lowering plant lignin content Blank White Ziska 2006 Combustion properties of Bromus tectorum L.: influence of ecotype and growth under four CO2 concentrations.

Before that, there was certainly a highly biodiverse and to all intents modern Amazon pre-dating humans by millions of years, one in which, if we could go back, we could still find regions plainly characteristic of every major present-day Amazonian ecotype, minus humans.

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I know biological "race" has some negative connotations, but I guess you could also say "ecotype" to refer to roughly the same thing, which I reckon was what you were trying to do--correct me if I'm wrong.