Answer to Question #64593 in Ecology for Sanjukta Ghosh

Question

What is ecoline?

I found this definition in a book: It is a spatial environmental factor gradient and plant community gradient considered together.

I found a different definition too, that said it is the rate of genetic change that occurs in an environment due to the merging of different varieties of a plant species.This doesn't make sense to me. One cannot measure the rate of genetic change.

Which one is right?

Answer 1

Both definitions are right – depending in which context term “ecoline” is used.