ecocline

ecocline

[′ek·ō‚klīn]
(ecology)
A genetic gradient of adaptability to an environmental gradient; formed by the merger of ecotypes.
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Rundle, "Ecotone or Ecocline: Ecological Boundaries in
Figuring Nature: Tropics of Romantic Environmentality
Factors affecting seasonal variations in demersal fish assemblages at an ecocline in a tropical-subtropical estuary.
Influencia de la granulometria del sedimento y la salinidad en la composicion de una comunidad de peces estuarinos en el Pacifico tropical mexicano
manillensis but the deviation in Cytb gene sequence of Pakistani wild rose-ringed parakeets is pointing towards independent evolution of this species as an ecocline in Pakistan.
Molecular Classification of Pakistani Wild Rose-Ringed Parakeet through Novel Cytochrome B Gene Polymorphism
The authors concluded that an ecocline had developed in this species since its introduction.
Adaptive Significance of Within-site Variation in Morphological and Reproductive Traits of Naturalized Wild Radish (Raphanus raphanistrum) Populations in South-Western Australia
Factors affecting seasonal variations in fish assemblages at an ecocline in a tropical-subtropical mangrove fringed estuary.
Lapillus otoliths of the Cathorops spixii (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) and Genidens genidens (Cuvier, 1829) (Actinopterygii-Ariidae)/Otolito lapillus de Cathorops spixii (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) e Genidens genidens (Cuvier, 1829) (Actinopterygii-Ariidae)
The eastern San Bernardino Mountains in southern California range from about 3003,506 m and support a wide range of as many as 11 distinct life zones along an ecocline extending from Sonoran Desert on the east side and Mojave Desert on the north side, to an alpine ecosystem near the summit (Schoenherr 1992).
Black bears (Ursus americanus) as a novel potential predator of Agassiz's desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) at a California wind energy facility
Accordingly, we have named the term periodic physical forcing for the ecocline formed by the covariation of this major complex-gradient and the corresponding coenocline.
Identification of fine-scale marine benthic ecoclines by multiple parallel ordination
An ecocline of vegetation types for each region was developed on the basis of ecological moisture regimes.
Ecoclimatic zonation of Yukon (Canada) and ecoclinal variation in vegetation
Main corresponding vegetation types are tropical evergreen forest, mesophyll montane forest, oak forest, pine forest and oak-pine forest, with extensive ecocline zones between the contiguous types of vegetation (Martinez et al.
New species of Necaxacris Roberts, 1939 (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from Northeastern Mexico
To appraise the disease burden at Igbo-Ora, a rural community in the forest-savannah woodland ecocline, south-west Nigeria, an integrated study on malaria immunology and parasitology was initiated in 1991; the entomology and socioeconomic components commenced in 2001.
Entomological indices of Anopheles gambiae sensu lato at a rural community in south-west Nigeria
The separations between contiguous segments of the Earth's surface are not always clear because the zone of contact between two communities may be gradual (an ecocline) or relatively abrupt (an ecotone).
The tropical woody and grassy savannahs
In the mountains of Mexico's dry tropics gradual transitions between TDF and oak forest are common, and species of both vegetation types may coexist in ecoclines.
Flora and vegetation of the seasonally dry tropics in Mexico: origin and biogeographical implications

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