Ecological vs Landrace - What's the difference?
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Relating to ecology, the interrelationships of organisms and their environment.
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, title= Not harmful to the environment.
(often, attributive) Any local variety of a domesticated animal or plant species that has adapted over time to its ecological and cultural environment (including, in some cases, its work).
* 1961 , Breeds of Swine , Farmers' Bulletin No. 1263, US Department of Agriculture,
* 2009 , Pablo Eyzaguirre, Arwen Bailey, International case studies and tropical home gardens projects: offering lessons for a new research agenda in Europe'', A. Bailey, Pablo B. Eyzaguirre, L. Maggioni, ''Crop genetic resources in European home gardens: Proceedings of a Workshop ,
* 2011', A. C. Newton, ''et al.'', ''Cereal '''Landraces for Sustainable Agriculture'', Eric Lichtfouse, Marjolaine Hamelin, Philippe Debaeke, Mireille Navarrete (editors), ''Sustainable Agriculture , Volume 2,
As an adjective ecological
is relating to ecology, the interrelationships of organisms and their environment.As a noun landrace is
(often|attributive) any local variety of a domesticated animal or plant species that has adapted over time to its ecological and cultural environment (including, in some cases, its work).ecological
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)Katie L. Burke
In the News, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}
Synonyms
* (not harmful to the environment) ecologically friendly, environmentally friendlylandrace
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(wikipedia landrace)Noun
(en noun)page 7,
- One of the newer breeds of swine in the United States is the American Landrace'. American '''Landrace''' hogs (figs. 19 and 20) are descendants of Danish ' Landrace hogs imported by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1934.
page 1,
- First, many crop landraces in Europe are being lost without our even knowing what is being lost.
page 154,
- In both cases the morphological diversity within the oat accessions did not differ between landraces and modern cultivars.