This same process is responsible for build up of the larger Mississippi embayment; however, the delta region is the most recent and ecologically distinct portion.

The wide range of altitudes has given the country a variety of ecologically distinct areas, leading to the evolution of endemic species in ecological isolation.

The vast Sahara encompasses several ecologically distinct regions.

Ecologically distinct species, on the other hand, have a much larger effect.

The new zoo's sections will represent three of the earth's ecologically distinct divisions - the tropical, polar and temperate biomes.

The refuge contains several ecologically distinct habitats including; beaches, coastal lagoons, mangrove wetlands, and upland forested areas.

This ecologically distinct bird was formerly treated as a species Icterus chrysocephalus.

Ecotopes are the smallest ecologically distinct landscape features in a landscape mapping and classification system.

An ecotope is a spatial term representing the smallest ecologically distinct unit in mapping and classification of landscapes.

Relatively homogeneous, they are spatially explicit landscape units used to stratify landscapes into ecologically distinct features.