Dears,
To the best of my knowledge ecotype refers to the organism that only adapt a particular environment, for example, wetland. However, local livestock population that have virtually the potential to adapt the agricultural lanscape of the world are referred as ecotype. As plant scientists use the term landrace or population could be an appropriate description for local livestock species population .
Not every local race is an ecotype, but every ecotype could be a landrace. Regards
Dear Medhat
Ecotype literally refers to ecological types that is genetically distinct groups but local populations are usually known by absence of population structure.
Introduced domesticated animals could become "ecotypes" in the future if they were able to survive and revert to wild animals or ferals. The term "ecotype" is usually reserved for local native species that were not introduced into an area by humans, and you can read over 100 years of references on that issue at https://www.ecoseeds.com/juicy.gossip.three.html
I think for animals, especially introduced species, maybe another term is better. When I was reviewing that ecotype literature, I do not remember seeing any article on animal ecotypes.
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