Relating to or characteristic of an ecotype, showing adaptation to a specific local environment.
From 'ecotype' plus '-ic' suffix. This adjectival form emerged in ecological literature to describe characteristics inherited by ecotypes adapted to particular conditions.
Ecotypic differences are genetic—not just how the environment shaped an individual plant's growth, but actual inherited traits that make one population intrinsically different from another.
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