Dear Andrew and Aydin,

Andrew's definition would satisfy Ben Tursch, but it might not be what the
textbooks say.  Tursch was concerned about the "scale" of sympatry, and his
example of "8 m., Hansa Bay, Papua-New Guinea" was not consistent with his
working model of "sympatry" with respect to morphospecies.

Harry


At 05:58 AM 11/30/2004, Aydin wrote:
>>If "syntopic" means "populations ...that ... are observable in close
>>proximity and could thus interbreed." then what is the definition
>>of "sympatric"? I guess I should get a copy of Tursch & read it.
>
>Two species living together in the same habitat are sympatric. They
>may not share the same microhabitat, but can readily meet in their
>daily/nocturnal rounds.
>--
>Andrew Grebneff
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