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Ecotype (Landscape ecology 🏞️)

Ecotypes are organisms which belong to the same species but possess different phenotypical features as a result of environmental factors such as elevation, climate and predation. Ecotypes can be seen in wide geographical distributions and may eventually lead to […]

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Ecotype (Zoology 🦥)

Ecotypes are organisms which belong to the same species but possess different phenotypical features as a result of environmental factors such as elevation, climate and predation. Ecotypes can be seen in wide geographical distributions and may eventually lead to speciation […]

Many #landmanagers and #restoration practitioners have experienced a shortage of local #ecotype #seed. A conversation at #NAC2024 spurred a new effort to increase the availability of #localecotype seed in #Kansas and #Missouri (and potentially beyond).

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Ecotype (Landscape ecology 🏞️)

Ecotypes are organisms which belong to the same species but possess different phenotypical features as a result of environmental factors such as elevation, climate and predation. Ecotypes can be seen in wide geographical distributions and may eventually lead to […]

Evolution of fast-growing piscivorous herring in the young Baltic Sea - Nature Communications The Atlantic herring is one of the world’s most abundant vertebrates and a typical plankton feeder of major ecological importance. This study shows that a piscivorous (fish-eating) ecotype of herring ...

#genetics
#ecotype
#nicheexpansion

Sunday just so story

How a small herring with a supergene on chromosome 12 grew bigger, colonized the Baltic sea, became a predator and, instead of polluted zooplankton, started eating other 🐟 🐟, preferably three-spined sticklebacks.