Link: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/generalist-and-specialist-species/
Description: WEBOct 19, 2023 · In the field of ecology, classifying a species as a generalist or a specialist is a way to identify what kinds of food and habitat resources it relies on to survive. Generalists can eat a variety of foods and thrive in a range of habitats. Specialists, on the other hand, have a limited diet and stricter habitat requirements.
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Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalist_and_specialist_species
Description: WEBGeneralist and specialist species. A generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources (for example, a heterotroph with a varied diet ). A specialist species can thrive only in a narrow range of environmental conditions or has a limited diet.
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Link: https://www.greenmatters.com/p/what-is-a-specialist-species
Description: WEBMay 19, 2020 · Generalist species are the exact opposite — according to Britannica, they are predominantly defined by the fact they can adapt to a wide variety of ecosystems, conditions, and food resources, so for the most part, …
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Link: https://library.fiveable.me/ap-enviro/unit-3/generalist-specialist-species/study-guide/bDVsgp06AHy4azzehZxP
Description: WEBDec 29, 2022 · The level of adaptability that a species can utilize to survive in an environment differentiates them to be either a generalist or a specialist. These two categories use a number of factors to divide organisms on their adaptability to …
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Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.9527
Description: WEBNov 24, 2022 · Species may be considered specialists relative to their clade, but generalists compared to other genera (Devictor et al., 2010). Issues are further compounded by the fact that many of these studies are purely theoretical and do not attempt to apply concepts to a specific system.
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Link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bswS-Ooe4iQ
Description: WEBLearn about the benefits and the drawbacks of adapting to very specific conditions (specialists) or a broad range of conditions (generalists).00:00:03,990 --...
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Link: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-college-environmental-science/x0b0e430a38ebd23f:populations
Description: WEBLearn about generalist and specialist species, K-selected ad r-selected species, survivorship, carrying capacity, population growth, age structure, fertility, human population dynamics, and the demographic transition model. Species growth. r and K-strategies for winning at life. Learn. Introduced species and biodiversity.
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Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01789.x
Description: WEBOct 27, 2011 · Generalists provision more specialists than specialists do generalists, whereas specialists are more prone to extinction, so that there should be more specialists than generalists. This is the pattern among European butterflies: fewer species have increasing numbers of larval host plants.
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Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1420-9101.2002.00377.x
Description: WEBMar 25, 2002 · We are seeking explanations for the evolution of variance in niche width (i.e. – specialists vs. generalists) and for the maintenance of genetic variance in fitness across patches, or genotype-by-environment interaction variance for …
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Link: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.2858
Description: WEBFeb 22, 2014 · Consistent with these predictions, a survey of the literature indicates that generalist species tend to have more molecular diversity than related specialist species: in 11 of 14 studies we identified, the specialist species showed lower genetic diversity than related generalists ( table 1 ).
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