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Temporal Isolation

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Temporal isolation is a prezygotic barrier in which two populations breed at different times, so individuals never encounter each other's fertile period.

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Two related frog species sharing an area but breeding in different months never overlap in their fertile periods, a temporal barrier.

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Temporal isolation blocks reproduction by timing alone — the populations may otherwise fully interbreed if timing matched.

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