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ecospecies Ecology.|ˈiːkəʊˌspiːʃiːz|
[f. eco- as in ecology + species.]
A subdivision of a species of which the individual members are interfertile.
1922G. Turesson in Hereditas III. 102 In the efforts made by the writer to arrive at an understanding of the Linnean species from an ecological point of view—of the ecospecies, as I prefer to say in the following—studies have been made of a number of plant species. Ibid. 344 The term ecospecies has been proposed..to cover the Linnean species or genotype compounds as they are realised in nature. Ibid. 347 The Linnean species represents an ecological unit..narrowed down to the ecological combination-limit. A genotype compound of this order is here termed an ecospecies. 1957M. Abercrombie et al. Dict. Biol. 76 Ecospecies, group of plants comprising one or more ecotypes within a coenospecies whose members can reproduce amongst themselves without loss of fertility in offspring. Approximates to conventional ‘species’. |