Specialist

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-026294",
  "term": "Specialist",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A species with narrow food preferences, habitat preferences, or both (after Ricklefs 1979:871).\n\n2. A species that consumes only one or a few types of food sources or forms associations with a narrow range of hosts. For example, certain collembola (tiny insects called springtails) specialize in eating specific species of fungi.",
  "references": [
    "USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology at http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/avian/glossary.htm",
    "USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services Soil Ecology Terms Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/specialist/"
}