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Disturbed landscapes may show higher habitat spatial variation and higher alpha-diversity due to the contribution of highly generalist species that are wide-distributed and do not differ in composition (beta-diversity) among different sites within the region.

Since pollinators and seed dispersers also consume the plants that they benefit reproductively, this suggests that highly generalist animals only occur if they are also conferring a reproductive benefit to their resource.

First, T. spinipes appear to be highly generalist in their floral visitation, visiting 51% of 562 plant species for which we have collated stingless bee resource use data.

Considering recent findings based on DNA analysis of parasitoid wasp communities (e.g. Smith et al. 2008, 2009), revealing high levels of cryptic diversity, these results question the identification of P. saulius as a broadly distributed highly generalist species.

Therefore, the importance of landscape connectivity was higher in woody LLE, suggesting that their inhabitants are more sensitive to habitat fragmentation than the highly mobile generalist species living in herbaceous habitats.

Hypothesis two (H2-diversifying/balancing selection) proposes a high diversity of the P. rapae Nsp locus across all populations due to P. rapae being a highly dispersive generalist, encountering a diverse spectrum of host plants across its range.

"We're highly trained generalists for a specific population — like gerontologists," he said.

According to NASA, those selected are expected to be team players and highly skilled generalists with a certain degree of individuality and self-reliance.

Originally restricted to small coastal areas of the Mediterranean and Black seas, this highly adaptive and generalist species is now reproducing throughout Southeastern and Central Europe.

Bird communities were highly dominated by few generalist species in areas with commercial components, while showed to have higher evenness values in green areas.

In contrast, generalist and highly vagile enemies may even profit from the high primary productivity of crops at a landscape scale and their abundance may partly compensate for losses in enemy diversity.