A steep decline in food availability can lead to physiological and behavioral costs in folivorous primates [Harris et al., 2010], and one may expect adaptive strategies such as dietary specialization, ranging and/or physiological adaptations to overcome periods of food scarcity [Hemingway & Bynum, 2005].
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Averaging across replicates, 33.8 ± 3.8%% (mean ± SD) of colonies show a high degree of specialization (D ranging between 0.5 and 0.7; Fig. 3c).
In Iraq, because of the nature of the war, U.S. artillery units have little to do — their specialization in long-range bombardment is not useful in a counterinsurgency campaign.
Endemism, ecological specialization, and restricted ranges generally make species more vulnerable to anthropogenic disturbances.
Even if the actual "polyphagy event" may be lost in history due to secondary specialization, the combined present range of hosts within a taxon should be a relatively accurate reflection of the ancestral host range.
Anurans display a broader range of specialization in locomotion, feeding, and reproduction in their adaptation to many different environments and lifestyles.
We investigated how theoretical species that differ in dispersal range, habitat specialization, and commonness are affected by different levels of wood extraction intensity.
Specialization on a narrow range of host plants is interpreted as an adaptative strategy to plant toxins, involving more specialized detoxification enzymes [66].
By continuing to assess these characteristics in vivo we can begin to determine the genetic correlates of host range and specialization and, therefore, shed light on understanding factors that influence variation in arbovirus evolution and activity in nature.
