intraspecifically
- adverb
- /ˌɪntrəspɪˈsɪfɪkli/
- Specialized
- The competition for food often occurs intraspecifically, leading to aggressive interactions among the same species.
Examples
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Manning (1990) has noted that red geryonid species are often found in deeper water than tan ones; this tendency has now been recorded intraspecifically for C. granulatus.
Academic text (1992) -
Finally, the fifth state is self-sustaining, in which species express full levels of all the conservation attributes and can be expected to survive with little to no human subsidy directed intraspecifically or extrinsically.
Academic text (2011) -
Researchers studied the behavior of the birds intraspecifically to understand their mating patterns.
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Members of the same species can exhibit varying traits intraspecifically based on their environment.
Surface Forms
Morphology
intraspecifically = intraspecific (transparent) = intra + specific + ly
A regular adverb formed by adding '-ly' to the adjective 'intraspecific'; the meaning 'in a way that occurs within a single species' follows directly from the adjective.
Etymology
Intraspecifically breaks into intra- meaning 'within' and species meaning 'a kind or group of animals or plants'. So intraspecifically means something happens 'within one species', for example when members of the same kind compete or change.
