Explore Sympatric through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like allopatric. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Sympatric in a sentence
Sympatric meaning
Occurring in the same, or in overlapping, territory, especially of species that do not interbreed.
Synonyms of Sympatric
Using Sympatric
- The main meaning on this page is: Occurring in the same, or in overlapping, territory, especially of species that do not interbreed.
- Useful related words include: allopatric.
- In the example corpus, sympatric often appears in combinations such as: sympatric carnivores, sympatric with, other sympatric.
Context around Sympatric
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sympatric
- In this selection, "sympatric" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, similar, tribes, two, carnivores, speciation and event stand out and add context to how "sympatric" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include american tribes sympatric with brown and among three sympatric carnivores. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sympatric" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sympatric
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Competition and intraguild predation among three sympatric carnivores. (8 words)
This sympatric event which occurred second was adaptive radiation. (9 words)
Top-dogs and under-dogs: competition between dogs and sympatric carnivores. (11 words)
Community ecology main An ecological community is a group of trophically similar, sympatric species that actually or potentially compete in a local area for the same or similar resources. (29 words)
Petren, Grant, Grant, and Keller proposed that the speciation of the finches occurred in two parts: an initial, easily observable allopatric event followed by a less clear sympatric event. (29 words)
The fact that this pattern of speciation occurred the same way on three separate occasions suggests strongly that ecological factors in a sympatric population can cause speciation. (27 words)
Example sentences (18)
A review of the studies in the competitive effects of dogs on sympatric carnivores did not mention any research on competition between dogs and wolves.
Because they need larger amounts of land than other sympatric terrestrial mammals, they are the first to be affected by human encroachment.
Community ecology main An ecological community is a group of trophically similar, sympatric species that actually or potentially compete in a local area for the same or similar resources.
Competition and intraguild predation among three sympatric carnivores.
Ecology and conservation of Formosan clouded leopard, its prey, and other sympatric carnivores in southern Taiwan''.
Finally, in sympatric speciation species diverge without geographic isolation or changes in habitat.
In the experiment, the snails were infected by their sympatric parasites, allopatric parasites and mixed sources of parasites.
Native American tribes sympatric with brown bears often view them with a mixture of awe and fear.
Niche partitioning between two sympatric genetically distinct cave bears (Ursus spelaeus and Ursus ingressus) and brown bear (Ursus arctos) from Austria: isotopic evidence from fossil bones.
Petren, Grant, Grant, and Keller proposed that the speciation of the finches occurred in two parts: an initial, easily observable allopatric event followed by a less clear sympatric event.
The fact that this pattern of speciation occurred the same way on three separate occasions suggests strongly that ecological factors in a sympatric population can cause speciation.
The results suggest that the parasites were more highly effective in infecting their sympatric snails than their allopatric snails.
They may have been sympatric with Burchell's zebra between the Vaal and Orange rivers.
This is one of the most interesting aspects of cichlid diversification, there exists a strong possibility that they can provide us with evidence of sympatric speciation.
This sympatric event which occurred second was adaptive radiation.
Though the allopatric snails were still infected by the parasites, the infectivity was much less when compared to the sympatric snails.
Top-dogs and under-dogs: competition between dogs and sympatric carnivores.
Where sympatric with the jaguar, the cougar is smaller than normal and is smaller than the local jaguars.
Common combinations with sympatric
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: