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  • noun See the extract.

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  • noun biology The use of the same (or overlapping) geographical areas, by populations of related species, without interbreeding.

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  • noun the occurrence of organisms in overlapping geographical areas, but without interbreeding

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Ancestry and Reversion 2007

  • 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.

    cattle:aurochs::dogs:wolves? 2007

  • Although the sympatry of these morphs might prove interesting i.e. are these morphs geographical, environmental, or random?

    Anguispira alternata angulata AYDIN 2007

  • 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.

    Millar et al: The Sierra Nevada MWP « Climate Audit 2006

  • 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

    Millar et al: The Sierra Nevada MWP « Climate Audit 2006

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