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What does parapatric mean?

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Adjective
  1. (biogeography, of organisms) Whose ranges do not significantly overlap but are immediately adjacent to each other; they only occur together in the narrow contact zone, if at all.
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The ranges of the two species do not overlap in the strict sense but interdigitate in a parapatric type of distribution.
One example is the grass Anthoxanthum odoratum, which can undergo parapatric speciation in response to localised metal pollution from mines.

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