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eurytopic, a. Ecol.|jʊərɪˈtɒpɪk|
[f. eurytope n. + -ic 1.]
Of an organism: tolerant of a wide range of types of habitat and of ecological conditions. Opp. *stenotopic a.
1937[see stenotopic a.]. 1974Amer. Naturalist CVIII. 557 Eurytopic species are widely distributed and therefore achieve considerable evolutionary stability. 1987Nature 10 Sept. 121/2 In graded mass extinctions, extinction rates are higher than background levels, but taxa disappear randomly throughout this interval, possibly along an ecological gradient from initially stenotopic to more eurytopic groups. |