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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See the extract.
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- noun biology The use of the same (or overlapping)
geographical areas, bypopulations of relatedspecies , withoutinterbreeding .
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- noun the occurrence of organisms in overlapping geographical areas, but without interbreeding
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Examples
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As I begin to map more precisely the areas where elegant and Gambel's quail co-occur (called sympatry) and occur separately (allopatry), I am joined by an assistant, Rafael Angel Arena Wong.
NYT > Home Page By JENNIFER GEE 2012
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This applies globally as well as locally: despite continuous, near-global sympatry between domestic dogs and wolves, hybridization has hardly occurred and only one mtDNA type is shared.
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Intriguingly, it appears to have been common and morphologically distinct for tens of thousands of years over a wide geographical area, despite sympatry with ‘normal’ C. lupus (Olsen 1985, Koler-Matznick 2002).
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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This applies globally as well as locally: despite continuous, near-global sympatry between domestic dogs and wolves, hybridization has hardly occurred and only one mtDNA type is shared.
Controversial origins of the domestic dog Darren Naish 2006
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Intriguingly, it appears to have been common and morphologically distinct for tens of thousands of years over a wide geographical area, despite sympatry with ‘normal’ C. lupus (Olsen 1985, Koler-Matznick 2002).
Controversial origins of the domestic dog Darren Naish 2006
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This applies globally as well as locally: despite continuous, near-global sympatry between domestic dogs and wolves, hybridization has hardly occurred and only one mtDNA type is shared.
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This applies globally as well as locally: despite continuous, near-global sympatry between domestic dogs and wolves, hybridization has hardly occurred and only one mtDNA type is shared.
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Although the sympatry of these morphs might prove interesting i.e. are these morphs geographical, environmental, or random?
Anguispira alternata angulata AYDIN 2007
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We reasoned that during the period of sympatry on Whitewing Mtn, the climate must have been compatible for all the species, i.e., fundamental niche spaces overlapped Jackson and Overpeck, 2000.
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Using contemporary distributions of the species, we modeled paleoclimate during the time of sympatry the MWP to be significantly warmer (+3.2 deg C annual minimum temperature) and slightly drier (-24 mm annual precipitation) than present
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