WEIT 2012 Chap4

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THE GEOGRAPHY OF LIFE

1.0 Endemic Spieces

1.1 What is an endomic spiece??

An endomic specie is a speci that is unique to a defined geographic location. An organism that is native of a particular place is not endemic if it's find somewhere elese. There is two different subcategories of endemism: paleoendemism and neoendemism. A paleoendemism is an organism which was at the origin widespread but is now restricted to a smaller area.Neoendemism would be a specie that is "recent", like a species that has diverged and become reproductively isolated, like on an island, or one that has formed following hybridization and is now classified as a separate species.--TheoL 16 mars 2012 à 16:04 (CET)