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mid-domain effect

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Noun

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mid-domain effect (plural mid-domain effects)

  1. (ecology) The hypothesis that species richness tends to peak in the middle of a geographic range or habitat rather than at the extremes; an attempt to explain the observed pattern of latitudinal gradients in species diversity.

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