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Q.Why are some organisms called as eurythermals and some others as stenohaline?

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Step 1. The chapter defines eurythermal organisms as those which can tolerate a wide range of temperature fluctuations (e.g. Zostera, a marine angiosperm, and Artemisia tridentata).

Step 2. It defines stenohaline organisms as those which can withstand only a small range of salinity (e.g. plants of estuaries).

Step 3. The prefix 'eury-' always signals broad tolerance and 'steno-' always signals narrow tolerance, applied to whichever factor is named — temperature (eurythermal/stenothermal) or salinity (euryhaline/stenohaline), and similarly for habitat, water, food and depth. …

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