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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an insect species
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Large numbers of insect species are becoming extinct.
endangered species (= one that soon may no longer exist )
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The lizards are classed as an endangered species .
fish species ( also species of fish ) (= the group of fish that are similar and can breed together )
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74 of California's 113 native fish species are in need of protection.
native species
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Singapore has many native species of palm.
protected species
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Spotted owls are a protected species .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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certain
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Forest Goblins even eat certain species of spiders which they regard as especially succulent and superior to any other kind of flesh.
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The growth of certain species of algae can become quite think if uncontrolled.
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In addition to certain species of cuckoo, there are about 30 species of birds worldwide that are also brood parasites.
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The extent to which certain species of marine fishes may be tamed was published some time ago in a popular weekly magazine.
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Now individual humans may honourably choose not to kill and or eat certain species of animals.
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During the same time, certain species dominating the initial reef disappeared.
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Little was known about the requirements of certain species .
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How is it, then, that caffeine is found in plants as unrelated as certain species of lilies and cacti?
different
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Loudspeakers play the songs of different cricket species from her left and right.
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Figure 2b illustrates that the exon-enriched probe detects conserved sequences in different species .
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Just one version is allowed to remain within a species , whatever happens when different species are compared.
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After all, his results and Roux's might have differed simply because they had worked on different species .
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Furthermore, a monograph of any large tropical group will show varying degrees of recognition of the ecological requirements of different species .
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It ignores the obvious discriminations which we make between similar treatment of different species within the animal kingdom.
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Month-by-month guide to the fascinating behaviour of a wide range of different animal species .
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Soil, for example, can easily have millions of bacteria - of very many different species - in just a gram.
endangered
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Today, with competition first from high street supermarkets and now from out of town hypermarkets, they are an endangered species .
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The legislation pertaining to protection of wetlands and endangered species is clearly being abused by extremists pursuing ulterior motives.
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It gives a detailed list of endangered areas and species .
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Ocelots, jaguars, otters, tapirs, harpy eagles, and other endangered species survive there.
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Now these animals are, basically, in the way, occupying caged needed for endangered species .
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Zoos contribute substantially to the captive banks of many endangered species and those that are less rare.
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It's one of a long list of endangered species in a 2 hour Central Documentary tonight.
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This region of unusual geological features is home to a number of endangered species , including ocelot and jaguar.
human
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In the human species those burdens are represented by the acceptance of personal responsibility.
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So long as the human species remains at once sentient and vulnerable, fear will influence thoughts and actions.
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The human species has probably not undergone much genetic change in recorded time.
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By analogy, we can see much the same process in our own human species , both biologically and culturally.
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Whereupon those High Masters - the self-proclaimed servants of the Emperor - could control the entire human species galaxy-wide, almost instantaneously.
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A good example is the human species .
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According to Blackwell, morality involved the evolution of self-consciousness which had developed only in the human species .
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No one thinks it an important proposition that what promotes survival of the human species promotes survival of the human species.
large
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This is a large species of eagle owl, hunting the large gerbil that lives on the short grass plains of Serengeti.
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These are mainly large species of the genus Echinodorus.
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It does not grow as fast as N. indicum, but the slender stalks produce more aerial leaves than the larger species .
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The taller plants should be mostly Aponogeton, Echinodorus, and the larger species of Anubias and Lagenandra.
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The Green Woodpecker - is the largest species of woodpecker in Britain.
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Apart from E. cordifolius this is the only large species penetrating to the edge of the temperate zone.
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I would have four pairs of dwarfs, or three pairs of dwarfs and one of the larger species .
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The acreage set aside is one of the largest for species protected by the federal Endangered Species Act.
native
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Zoologists say the problem's so bad native species could be at risk.
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Unchecked by natural predators and conditions, they reproduce by the millions, chasing out native species .
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The new Bill covers introduced as well as native species and will allow ministers to decide which animals may be commercially bred.
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However, it has been claimed that there are two native species of honey-producing wasps in California.
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The three native species are all winter visitors in the central and southern parts of the region.
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But 25 native species are endangered, seven to the verge of extinction.
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So many have been released in the wild that they're threatening native species .
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Stick to native species to ensure the tree is suitable for the soil in your area.
new
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As the Bishop underlines, the dark moth is not a new species .
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Each year thereafter new species blow in from outside the fence and take root.
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As Gould rightly assumed, vast areas of terraincognita held enormous possibilities for new and exotic species .
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He was more interested in pinpointing areas where he could find the most new species .
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Figure 7.1 illustrates the very obvious way in which a new fossil species may seem to be diachronous.
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Smoked out An extraordinary new species has been sighted in the centre of Edinburgh recently.
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Slater seems to be a new species of skinhead.
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He supplied lists of fossils for publication in memoirs and described numerous new species in a great many papers.
other
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Dusky dolphins and Burmeister's porpoise are considerably more abundant and wide-ranging than the other three species .
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They certainly go beyond the pre-linguistic prototypes of language, and demonstrate the capability of certain individual apes to outpace other species .
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It is a peaceful community fish when kept with other species of similar size and behaviour.
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Many other prey species flee upwards to safety rather than downwards.
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Not only have tigers doubled in numbers, but other species and habitats have benefited.
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One or two other species of bird have developed a much more accurate technique of finding their way in the dark.
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It is adaptive for animals not to mate with members of other species .
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Cultivation: Unlike the other species , this one requires a nutritious bottom.
particular
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It is always important to find out as much as possible about the normal living conditions of a particular species .
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What was unusual was that the particular species of Discula which was able to kill dogwoods could not be identified.
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Under the treaty, exceptions are granted to countries who have a traditional dependence on a particular species .
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The golden stripe grouper is a particular hardy species in captivity and will eat cut fish and beef or horse meat.
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We have seen how the vibration frequencies may be observed and how each may be allocated to a particular symmetry species .
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Every year particular species arrive and disappear, and change in absolute and relative abundance.
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Often children develop animal phobias, even when they have always had good relations with a particular species of animal.
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You may like to experiment with colour schemes designed to display particular fish species to best advantage.
rare
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Today the locations of many rare or endangered species are closely guarded secrets.
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Or suppose the individual is an eaglet of a rare species anxiously watched by conservationists in its nest.
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Last year rare species worth half a million pounds pounds have been stolen in raids around the country.
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The rule is an attempt to prevent harm to pets or rare species that may wander into the traps.
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But the subject of both pieces is a rare species and one of the genuine and original characters.
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Certified divers can explore the crystal waters of San Solomon Springs and night dive to see two rare aquatic species .
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It is ideal for sighting rare arctic-alpine species of plant life.
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This time the threat is not to man, but to rare species of seal, por poise and sea birds.
single
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Because they were descended from them, many sometimes descending from a single ancestral species .
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The genus contains only a single species .
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Humans are not the centre of life, nor is any other single species .
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The cryptocorynes occur mainly in cultures of single species on overgrown river beds and are exposed to the conditions of amphibious life.
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So, think wisely before you devote all your time to carp - or any other single species .
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One-plant cultures of a single species developed vegetatively, occupying shallow brooks with a stony ground covered with sand, are typical.
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This compares with only three species in the predator assemblage, with 66 percent consisting of a single species.
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I have come to accept Joe AliTs premise that not a single species is unaffected by the rot taking place.
small
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The fish you first introduced were small species , and the aquarium is quite large.
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Outwardly the plant resembles the small species of the submersed Sagittaria.
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In fact the Minke whale, the smallest species , has always been hunted with a non-explosive grenade.
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In Echinodorus this is relatively rare and is found only in the smallest species , E. quadricostatus and E. tenellus.
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The tank has never had more than seven or eight small species at any time.
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Only a small number of species are found in the southern temperate zone or in the tropics.
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Barbel Corner gave chub, bream and smaller species .
various
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There are various species of Sizewell men - no, in modern political circles, Sizewell people.
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Clearly this is much easier if we can associate bands in the spectrum with the various possible symmetry species .
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Binding sites for ET-1 and its receptor mRNA are found in the airways and pulmonary vasculature of various species including man.
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Imagine the myriads of such infrared and other pathways and signals that the various insect species must be utilizing.
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There are many different kinds of mating systems in the various species of animals.
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Mussels and various species of barnacle are obvious examples.
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animal
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Half the animal species of the world and 90,000 out of 250,000 known plant species, live in the rainforests.
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A team of volunteers works with each animal species , and ducks are the only species fed after release, Lacye said.
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Month-by-month guide to the fascinating behaviour of a wide range of different animal species .
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Native peoples who depend on the forests for their livelihoods, and animal species like the Siberian tiger, have suffered.
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Any animal species that happens to be superficially dull will be ignored, perhaps even maltreated.
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In the meantime, what are the natural levels of social grouping for other animal species ?
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These have a carcinogenic effect in 39 animal species , including primates.
bird
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The forests are home to 12 % of the world's mammal species and almost a fifth of bird species.
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More than 100 bird species and 35 mammal species have been identified at the park.
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The Amazon rainforests alone are home to many unique animals and to one fifth of the world's bird species .
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This has profound implications for our understanding of the evolution of sexually monomorphic ornaments in many other bird species .
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About 1,000 bird species are deemed at risk of extinction, and 88 of those are parrots.
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Individuals of many bird species give alarm calls when they spot a dangerous predator.
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Fewer than 50 bird species are polyandrous.
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You can see many different bird species on the canal.
plant
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Half the animal species of the world and 90,000 out of 250,000 known plant species, live in the rainforests.
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Exactly how and when these plant species came to the Great Plains is not certain.
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According to the report, traditional pasturelands support up to 200 plant species whereas modern fields support only three or four.
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An aquarium is only a small water reservoir into which only a few plant species can be planted.
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It argues that it is impractical for countries to protect their interests by patenting plant species .
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This property has been recognised in many plant species .
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There are, in fact, many animal and plant species that have taken this road.
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These include dragonflies, in particular the blue tailed damselfly, and several rare plant species .
tree
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The black and white feeds in a narrow range of tree species and when none is fruiting it eats leaves.
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The defoliation oil preferred tree species is complete, with trees utterly denuded in the space of a week.
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On Tobago, the fruits of the tree species had significantly more thickened layers and higher frequencies of multiple seeds and so on.
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The process of both clearance and replanting continues today, although different tree species are often involved.
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Over the years a mix of tree species of varying ages has been established creating valuable wildlife habitats.
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Within the range of a single tree species , there may be very distinctly different assemblages of birds taking the fruits.
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endanger
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The birds are included in the same category as tigers on the list of most endangered species .
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It is not believed that any endangered species are at risk from the fire.
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More importantly, perhaps, they represent the Return of the Director, an endangered species rarely glimpsed in recent years.
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Stand-alone hospitals are an endangered species unless they have a unique service to offer.
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He says what endangered species conflicts are really all about is a lack of planning.
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Unlawfully killing an endangered species can result in a one-year sentence and a $ 50, 000 fine.
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As a result of anti-pollution laws, some companies have become endangered species . 14.
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The winter-run chinook was listed as a protected species under the state and federal endangered species acts in 1989.
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He was more interested in pinpointing areas where he could find the most new species .
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Under these conditions are found all the species preferring the terrestrial way of life.
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Cultural behaviour is therefore most likely to be found in species that form social groups.
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Find a new vent site and you are guaranteed to find new species .
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It is rare to find two or more species of Cryptocoryne living together.
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On examination, it was found that two species were largely insectivorous, two largely fig-eaters and five were generalist frugivores.
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Research is under way at the Open University to find out which species of trees and shrubs and which management regimes are best.
protect
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The winter-run chinook was listed as a protected species under the state and federal endangered species acts in 1989.
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The plan also provided for measures to protect endangered species , protect the ozone layer and increase energy conservation.
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Great economic sacrifices have been made by developers, loggers and fishermen to protect endangered species .
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The legislation that exists to protect endangered species is often inadequate and lacks proper enforcement.
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Yet it has no law protecting threatened species .
threaten
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Individual immortality would threaten the species as a whole - almost certainly with fatal results.
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The Nature Company is no longer a threatened species .
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This is a practice that has threatened several species .
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As a threatened species , the snowy plover is protected under the federal Endangered Species Act.
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In some regions of the state, this is threatening several species of fish, he says.
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The release was part of a yearlong Towson State University study of the threatened species .
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A new airport may still threaten many bird species .
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Some threatened species have special qualities or abilities and may hold the key to undiscovered benefits.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many species of aquatic plants can exist in very little light.
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Scientists have discovered a new species of Eucalyptus tree.
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The giant panda is an endangered species . There are fewer than a thousand living in the wild.
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There are over forty species of bird living on the island.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clear lakes have more species than do those with muddy water.
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If world insect species totals are as high as 50 million, this would extend to 28,345 species per insect specialist.
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Scientists have begun to investigate and to identify some of the possible causes, which may differ from species to species.
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The achenes of Sagittaria species differ from those of Echinodorus species by not being ribbed.
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The eggs of this species are shed in a packet - that is several stuck together - and sink.
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The large numbers of wild orchids being traded threatens some species with extinction.
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Then the bans on the cull grenade, released at the same time, came into effect for all species of whales.
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This sweeping view of our species makes it clear that we must urgently learn from our past to plan for our future.