Stress-tolerators are adapted to:
“High stress, low disturbance habitats” for stress-tolerators are adapted to. This relationship follows from the ecological mechanism represented by the terms in the item, not merely from an association between their names. Survivorship curves summarize age-specific mortality: Type I concentrates loss late in life, Type II approximates a constant hazard, and Type III concentrates loss early. They are empirical patterns, not rigid taxonomic rules. The remaining alternatives—“High resource, low stress habitats”, “Constant waterlogged environments”, “Periodic fire and drought”—refer to different
Ref: Plant Strategies and Vegetation Processes, Grime, 2nd Ed.