In other species, such as the herring gull, each individual exploits a broad range of foods, thereby lessening the risk of starvation, as it is unlikely that all types of food will become exhausted at the same time.
However, to sustain competitive advantage over the long-term, these smaller, independent community pharmacies will need to exploit a broad core competency base in order to be able to continuously introduce new sources of competitive advantage.
Our results show that bobcats exploit a broad range of habitat types in pine landscapes managed with frequent fire and commonly use recently burned stands (≤ 1.1 year post-fire), suggesting prey in many areas of this system are at risk of bobcat predation.
Echolocating bats have successfully exploited a broad range of habitats and prey.
The checkered beetle T. formicarius is known to prey upon 27 bark beetle species in Europe, see [21] and references therein, and can conceivably exploit a broad set of chemical signals from both its prey and prey's host trees [26], [27].
These insects exploit a broad variety of host plants from the family Sapindaceae (Carroll 2007).
This behavioral plasticity could be especially important for generalist parasitoids, as they have to be able to exploit a broad range of host-induced cues [ 28].
Many additional biological attributes (e.g., behavior, physiology), coupled with this diversity in form and function, have allowed mammals to exploit a broad range of habitats worldwide.
The difference in ability to exploit a broad range of non-carbohydrate molecules as carbon sources could improve the likelihood of C. sordellii to survive within the more complex environment of soft tissue.
Of the two felines, the cougar appears best able to exploit a broader prey niche and smaller prey.
