SCIENCE
ECOLOGY
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James Shelford
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Jacob Shelford
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Ernest Shelford
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Shelford’s law of tolerance is a principle developed by American zoologist Victor Ernest Shelford in 1911.
Detailed explanation-2: -It states that an organism’s success is based on a complex set of conditions and that each organism has a certain minimum, maximum, and optimum environmental factor or combination of factors that determine success.
Detailed explanation-3: -Shelford’s law of tolerance The law of tolerance was developed in 1913 by American zoologist Victor Ernest Shelford.
Detailed explanation-4: -Shelford’s law of tolerance is illustrated by a bell-shaped curve depicting the relationship between environmental factor/factors’ intensity and its favorability for species or populations.
Detailed explanation-5: -Toleration Act, (May 24, 1689), act of Parliament granting freedom of worship to Nonconformists (i.e., dissenting Protestants such as Baptists and Congregationalists). It was one of a series of measures that firmly established the Glorious Revolution (1688–89) in England.