stenotopen.
/ˈstɛnəʊtəʊp/ Ecology.
A stenotopic organism.
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colonist1839
benthos1891
land form1897
heterotroph1900
autotroph1901
epibenthos1902
specialist1902
microaerophile1903
nitrifier1903
consumer1904
nitrogen fixer1904
producer1904
indicator1906
psychrophile1906
thermophil1909
sulphuretum1925
influent1926
halobiont1928
halophile1928
mesophile1928
oligosaprobe1931
saprobe1932
eurytope1938
stenotope1938
photoautotroph1939
chemoautotroph1943
prototroph1946
mixotrophy1948
chemolithoautotroph1949
auxotroph1950
chemoheterotroph1951
chemoorganotroph1953
chemolithotroph1955
chemotroph1958
osmophile1961
psychrotroph1963
saprotroph1963
generalist1964
opportunist1967
cryophile1970
1896 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 617 Some animals are always associated with special conditions; others seem less sensitive and more independent; for these two sets the terms ‘stenotop’ and ‘eurytop’ are suggested.]
1938 J. R. Carpenter Ecol. Gloss. 256 Stenotope,..of/ organisms restricted to a single habitat.
1959 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 78 373 Referring to the closed and artificially limited environment used in germfree studies, a better term for this kind of environment would be stenotope.
1981 S. J. Gould in R. M. May Theoret. Ecol. (ed. 2) xiii. 299 The greater geological longevity of stressed eurytopes does not imply that evolutionary trends towards their domination should exist within clades—for stenotopes may, on average, persist for shorter times, yet speciate at such a markedly greater rate that they increase steadily in relative frequency for species within clades.
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