Examples of flora

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Also, it remains to be determined if changes in maternal flora and immunological markers influence the fetus.
In addition, the distribution of fauna and flora in a basin provides spatio-temporal limits which aid in understanding the evolutionary history of a basin.
He provides new palaeoecological inter pretations of the flora.
The soil flora and soil fauna take over the tillage function and soil nutrient balancing.
There are also pictures of flora, fauna, inhabitants and their houses, and even of ships 'discovering' the lands.
The age of 4 days was chosen since in the absence of a gut flora extensive colonization would occur in the absence of clinical disease.
Nearly all are flora and fauna terms, so they too may be morphologically complex in the same semantically opaque way as, say, daddy longlegs.
The original flora and fauna were similar to those of the grasslands in the forested steppe.
An introductory review of the geology, environment, flora and fauna of the archipelago is followed by a section on logistics.
The suppression of bracken and regenerating woodland scrub is also detrimental to the conservation of much of its flora.
Other forms of flora too could assume symbolic status.
Thus, any antibiotic treatment that will change the flora of the colon may improve the effect of fibre in these patients.
The rationale for not treating asymptomatic bacteriuric catheterized patients is that the bacterial flora changes rapidly, and might be enhanced by antimicrobial therapy.
In this situation modification of bowel flora allows invasion or overgrowth by the clostridium.
Numbers of species in the seed bank and in the garden flora were positively but very weakly related.
The climatic similarities have nevertheless led to speculations about corresponding parallels in fauna and flora.
However, fi re-sensitive flora a nd perhaps fauna as well are i n decline as a consequence of unmanaged fire.
The study area has a diverse flora, with 28 mangrove species recorded in total.
In terms of palaeoecological interpretation, these data suggest that pollen spectra would respond to the large scale replacement of one terra firme flora with another.
In addition to dispersing a third of the tree flora, primates meet the second requirement of effective seed dispersers: they pass seeds viable for germination.
With our telescopes we could watch flora and fauna appearing and disappearing every few days or even minutes.
All the right curves in an island hummingbird, the shape of the female's bill enables her to feast on local flora inaccessible to the male.
Fire is a common feature of tropical savannas and it has an important role in the ecology and evolution of the flora.
The bryophyte flora is richer, comprising 134 moss or liverwort species.
The relatively limited flora means that vegetational changes are less complex than in more temperate mainland regions with higher diversity.
Differences in faecal excretion patterns between different batches of birds as a result of different gut flora have been observed previously [35].
Cleaning skin with alcohol before injection was significantly protective against abscesses caused by skin and mouth flora [2].
Many factors such as temperature, water activity, acidity, salt concentration, microbial flora in the foods, etc, can affect the growth of staphylococci [3].
Within this short period of time, adaptations in the wether's physiology or rumen flora, to avoid potentially detrimental effects of condensed tannins, are highly unlikely.
The fauna, flora, vegetation structure, phenology, seasonality, rainfall and temperature regimes of the three forests vary markedly.
As a result, reduction of the diversity of both fauna and flora may affect the recruitment of many animal-dispersed tree species.
The relationships between the various lycophyte floras were investigated using cluster analysis.
A strong theme is that generalizations based on data from one or several floras may not be applicable universally.
In our sample, about 83% of species exhibited compound inflorescences, although it is not known how this compares to floras of other regions.
They highlight the need for more ecological studies of these floras.
More work is needed on these poorly documented floras to produce a more rigorous phytogeographical analysis.
The third grouping included those basins with less well-studied lycophyte floras, where the apparently low species diversity has undoubtedly affected the results.
Furthermore, it may not apply at all to floras with many large, hard seeds; more studies of other floras of this type are urgently required.
The comment about upland floras may be more controversial.
The relative size of tree and shrub floras reflects forest conditions and may also vary with methodological factors.
However, the similarities are in several different leaf-types, as well as just the well-documented gigantopteroids, and so it may reflect a real relationship between the floras.
Therefore, it seems clear that the relationship between seed size, shape and persistence should be examined in other floras, preferably those with a wide range of climates and phylogenetic histories.
The period which commenced in the early thirties was significant in that a new approach to the study of the flora was evident.
We are the richest country in the world in flora and fauna; we have a rich sea and land rich in minerals.
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