ENDEMISM
Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, county or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. The extreme opposite of endemism is cosmopolitan distribution.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Endemism
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endemism
Noun
- The state of being endemic
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