Ecotype

The disappearance of one unique group of wolves coincided with the bison’s near-extinction, suggesting that although the bison eventually recovered, an entire “ecotype” of wolves specialized to hunt them never did.

These four Japanese introductions probably were of the Japonica ecotype.

She collected rhizomes of two ecotypes, a northern ecotype originally from Yellowstone County, Montana, and a southern ecotype from an agricultural field near Hollister, California.

The more interesting question is, What is the difference between an endemic and an ecotype?