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RELICT SPECIES [1 record]

Record 1 2004-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Animal Biology
  • Plant Biology
DEF

A plant or animal species living on in isolation in a small local area as a survival from an earlier period or as a remnant of an almost extinct group.

OBS

A relict species may be one that had a wider range but is now found only in particular areas (like the European white elm tree in western Siberia), or it may have survived relatively unchanged from an older period when other kinds of species went extinct (such as horseshoe crabs).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Biologie animale
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Espèce vivante constituant le dernier représentant d'un groupe jadis très diversifié, ou dont l'aire de répartition, actuellement très réduite ou morcelée, était beaucoup plus importante à une époque antérieure.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
  • Biología animal
  • Biología vegetal
DEF

Planta [u otra especie viviente] que ocupó grandes extensiones en otras épocas geológicas y actualmente se halla reducida a áreas limitadas.

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