species-specific

[spee-sheez-spi-sif-ik, spee-seez-]

adjective

Ecology.

1. associated with or limited to one species only.

Example Sentences

“Instead, it depends heavily on regional climate, elevation and species-specific biology.”

From Los Angeles Times

Then a few months later, the same journal publishes a paper on a similar topic but on a different, flashier species for which there is already a lot of research, conservation concerns and efforts, and sometimes even dedicated species-specific working groups.

From Salon

A recently published study of bird traits offered Baldwin and his PhD co-advisor Jonathan Myers, a professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, an opportunity to examine one potentially important and species-specific factor: bird wing shape.

From Science Daily

These samples were then genetically tested using a species-specific marker called a DNA barcode.

From Salon

"The structure, metabolism and interaction of maternal and fetal tissue are unique and species-specific."

From Science Daily