FAUNA


Meaning of FAUNA in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

flora and fauna (= plants and animals )

Tourism is damaging the flora and fauna of the island.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

mammal

Equitability depends on two things, the original equitability of the small mammal fauna and the degree of predator selectivity.

The Westbury sediments are middle Pleistocene in age with numerous small mammal faunas in different parts of the breccia sequences.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Geographically distant sites are characterized by very different faunas.

If so, then modern vent fauna should be largely unchanged from those that existed hundreds of millions of years ago.

In forestry, these chemicals can lead to a decline in water quality and to declines in aquatic fauna and flora.

Sheffield has a very active Natural History Society, which has accumulated a good knowledge of this city's fauna .

The result is a digitized display of flora, fauna and visual effects.

The soil fauna may also be developing, as a topsoil accumulates.

This detailed survey is peppered with information on how the faunas came to be collected - often by amateurs.

This size limitation means that harvester ant assemblages are not good indicators of the local mammalian fauna .

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