Poblaciones finícolas
English translation: edge-of-range / range-edge populations
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peer agreement (net): +1edge-of-range / range-edge populations Explanation: English quite often tends to be less Latinate than Spanish in this kind of terminology, and as far as I can tell this is the usual term. It's found in both versions, and though it's not exactly an everyday term (nor is finícola), it is clearly equivalent and occurs in solid ecological sources. I find it associated with "outlier populations", and in a number of cases you get the impression that they are synonyms, but actually I don't think they are. Here is an example which suggests that although they are associated they are different: "Does the forest support concentrations of species at the edge of their natural ranges or outlier populations? [...] Outlier and edge of range populations may also play a critical role in genetic/population adaptation to global warming. [...] Are there any ecological or taxonomic groups of range edge and/or outlier species/sub-species that would together constitute a globally, nationally or regionally significant concentration?" http://www.simcoe.ca/ws_cos/groups/public/@pub-cos-cf/docume... But here "outliers" is defined: "Outliers An outlier is an sample of peculiar species composition that has low similarity to all other samples" http://books.google.es/books?id=mLH_15sv734C&pg=PA11&lpg=PA1... So it means an untypical population. You'd expect populations at the edge of the range to be untypical, hence the association, but they're not synonyms. Here are some results for "edge-of-range populations" and "range-edge populations"; a reasonable number of each, and some solid-looking books among them: http://www.google.es/search?num=100&site=webhp&q="edge of ra... http://www.google.es/search?num=100&site=webhp&q="range edge... |
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