Example sentences of "species in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note , however , that most species in tropical forests live over a far smaller area — that is have a far smaller range , then the average species in temperate regions . |
| 2 | The feathery and delicate fronds of the ferns make them among the most beautiful of the foliage plants , and they attract a fanatical group of devotees dedicated to growing exotic species in inhospitable cities . |
| 3 | For example , Lampsilis at the sandbar site grew at rates ( average 2.6 mm per yr ) similar to those found for the same species in other lakes , whereas less than 1 km away , in the same basin of the same lake , the average rate of growth of marked Lampsilis was -0.3 mm per yr . |
| 4 | As for the origin of species , reflection on many palaeontological and biogeographical facts , including those established by the expert judgments of Richard Owen and John Gould on the voyage material , had convinced Darwin , by early spring 1837 , that the close similarity seen between any congeneric endemic species in two areas was not always explicable as a common adaptation to common conditions ; for often the two sets of species were endemic in areas with very different climate , soil and so on . |
| 5 | Of orchids , euglossines visit some 625 species in 55 genera , especially in the subtribes Stanhopeinae and Catasetinae ; they also visit some Gesneriaceae and a number of Araceae as well as rotting logs , to which they are possibly attracted by fungi . |
| 6 | Richard K. Benjamin , now at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in California , and Leland Shanor of Florida University found even more dramatic examples of position specificity in the distributions of Laboulbenia species in carabid beetles . |
| 7 | I am worried by the enthusiasm of some of my constituents for the Bengal tiger and rare species in various parts of the world , while tending to disregard animals in our local habitats . |
| 8 | The second , and the one usually chosen by the authors , is to grow up a mixture of different species in variable numbers until they show signs of pairing and wanting to breed . |
| 9 | Note , however , that most species in tropical forests live over a far smaller area — that is have a far smaller range , then the average species in temperate regions . |
| 10 | Conducting a census of plant and animal species in tropical regions alone , according to biologist Daniel Janzen of the University of Pennsylvania , would require 30 years of work , at a cost of US$60 million a year . |
| 11 | All these species have been affected by oil pollution which , while not always severe , is nearly always present and may have caused marked declines of some species in recent years . |
| 12 | Frugivorous birds , by eating fruits of preferred species in preferred proportions , co-ordinate the dispersal of particular species , so that in the long run , the birds will modify their habitats in terms of the nutritional configuration or the spatial arrangement of the local fruiting plants . |
| 13 | In view of the problem of the masking of environmental heterogeneity , they found that small plots of 40 x 50 m were the most profitable in terms of time and information gained ( even though they recorded only 500 common tree species in 35 families ) , and that for phytomass studies small plots were adequate . |
| 14 | Elephants should not be seen as a mere single species in conservation terms . |
| 15 | The origins of a particular homoeomorph can usually be deduced by studying the internal features ( in particular the suture lines ) , or by tracing its derivation from geologically older species in underlying beds . |
| 16 | In a similar case of a montane forest , between 56 tree species in several families , this time in Jamaica , there was , again , only slight interspecific temporal separation in the use of animal pollinators and dispersal agents , thus ‘ niche ’ separation in this sense is slight and the coexistence of the 56 species can not be explained in this way . |
| 17 | They argued in favour of this possibility on the following grounds : ( 1 ) cuckoos ‘ regularly parasitized three other corvid species in the Guadix area , whereas the magpie was the only commonly parasitized species in nearby areas of ancient sympatry , although all corvid species bred in both areas of recent and of ancient sympatry ’ . |
| 18 | Muffet the bearcat peers out curiously at her new home in London Zoo , where she and new partner Brendan are the first of their species in 20 years . |
| 19 | Mysids Mysis relicta by contrast have a two-yearly cycle ; females require the same amount of energy for breeding as individuals of the same species in warmer climates , but take a year longer to accumulate it ( Lasenby and Langford , 1972 , 1973 ) . |
| 20 | The storms may have improved the wildlife importance of some woods , by breaking the canopy and giving better light conditions , thus helping to improve ground flora and regeneration , and by presenting foresters with a chance to vary the structure of woodland — for example , by introducing a wider range of species in more woods , or by phased regeneration over several decades . |
| 21 | Using chemiluminescence produced by cells and extracts , several investigators have showed the role of reactive oxygen species in different disorders . |
| 22 | However , not all scorpions are venomous and the same species in different parts of the world differ in their toxicity . |
| 23 | FIG. 3 a , A representative number of spiders from Western Europe , Japan , Singapore and Australia ( 802 species in 31 families or subfamilies ) . |
| 24 | These surveys tended to assume that certain species were typical of a particular habitat , although there were also studies of the changing proportions of species in differing locations . |
| 25 | New methods of detecting the presence of organic compounds in fish suggest that pollutants may be killing them and other marine species in smaller concentrations than previously thought . |
| 26 | Although the majority of weakly electric fish , in both the African and the South American groups , give their electric discharges in discrete pulses and are called " pulse " species , a minority of species in both groups do it a different way and are called " wave " species . |