Stenotopic
adjective
1.
(of an animal or plant) able to tolerate only small environmental changes.
adjective
1.
(ecology) (of a species, group, etc) able to tolerate only a narrow range of environmental changes Also (sometimes (influenced by -tropic)) stenotropic Compare eurytopic
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