Sentences with phrase «species than any other plant»

The beetles boast more species than any other plant or animal group — 330,000 in their order, Coleoptera.

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On a final note, plants of the chinense species do seem to suffer much more from leaf drop than the other species with nearly all my chinense plants now as bald as pool ball.

Songbirds, river herring, and other animals and plants are returning to what was a working cranberry farm for more than a century and now features a free - running stream that nourishes marshland, an array of restored native plant species, and upland woods.

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

So far, more than 40 percent of the plant species growing in these habitats in Europe have been established on other continents.

Herbivores (species that eat plants; e.g. caterpillars) consume more non-native (introduced from other places) oak leaf material in areas with diverse native plant communities than in less diverse communities.

Worldwide, over 13,000 plant species have been carried by humans to other regions, with more than 2,500 species being from Europe.

The international research team documented the occurrences in different habitats for approximately 10,000 plant species originating from Europe — from which more than 2,500 have naturalized on other continents.

These evolutionary changes, which are known as «sequential» or «cascading» events, may provide additional information to help biologists explain why certain organisms like plants and insects are more diverse and species - rich than other groups are.

In 2012, his team reported that humans had a different form of these fatty acid genes than did chimps or other ancient human species, one that made them more efficient at processing the fatty acids from plants.

However, it has also been suggested that species characteristics are less important as determinants of plant establishment success than other factors such as seed availability or environmental characteristics, like dense vegetation.

Miller - Struttmann and her colleagues then compared other decades - old data about plants visited by the bees with recent work on bee visits, and discovered that these two species had acquired broader tastes than their recent ancestors, taking nectar from many more kinds of flowers than before.

More than one hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin hypothesized that species could cross oceans and other vast distances on vegetation rafts, icebergs, or in the case of plant seeds, in the plumage of birds.

Russell Burke, a biologist at Hoftstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., who has studied Italian wall lizards in the U.S., says the species would be «at least as good as, and possibly better than» other bio-indicators, such as mice and plants.

Schemes that promote sustainable use are growing in popularity among biologists and wildlife managers, and are being set up to foster plants and animal species other than amphibians and reptiles.

Over the course of evolution, plants have developed mechanisms to adapt to periods of inadequate water, and as any gardener can tell you, some species are better able to handle drought than others.

In contrast, the grasses and other flowers and plants that grow naturally when such lands are left fallow — species such as goldenrod, frost aster, and couch grass, among others — can deliver roughly the same amount of biofuel energy per hectare per year if fertilized, yet also reducing CO2 by more than twice as much as corn.

Monarch populations are critical pollinators of wildflowers and other plants, but the species has declined more than 80 percent in the last two decades.

We are also available for instruction on transformation methods and for development of methodologies for plant species other than those currently being done in the center.

With the forest being home to more than just Fe ad those of the same species as there are others, there are animals and even plants that are willing to help Fe fight back, but in order to get their assistance, you will need to do so, via the medium of song.

Haleakala National Park is home to more threatened and endangered species than any other national park in the U.S. Due to the isolated volcanic area, all of the plants and animals either traveled thousands of miles over land and sea or were brought over by Hawaiians or other visitors.

Led by more than 320 volunteer scientists from across the country, thousands of amateur explorers, families, and students on school field trips conducted a comprehensive inventory of the plants, insects, mammals, birds, and other species that inhabit national park sites north and south of the Golden Gate, including Point Reyes National Seashore, Muir Woods National Monument, the Marin Headlands, the Presidio of San Francisco, Mori Point, and Rancho Corral de Tierra.

In an area that is not just home to more species of plants than most other regions on earth, but is equally rich in cultural diversity, the number of plants used for medicines in different ways by different people is mind boggling.

The area is home to jaguars, howler monkeys, deer, pumas, wild cats and many other mammals, as well as spiders, reptiles, insects and more than 800 plant species.

Reputedly home to a higher number of animal and plant species than any other seas in the world, it is clear why the deep walls of Bunaken Island are famous attractions for naturalists and photographers the world over.

The other lineage (known as Euphyllophyta) includes two major clades: the spermatophytes or seed plants (including more than 250,000 species of angiosperms [flowering plants], conifers, cycads, gnetophytes, and the Gingko) and the monilophytes or ferns (sensu lato, including the horsetails, whisk ferns, and eusporangiate and leptosporangiate ferns, with most of the roughly 12,000 monilophyte species being leptosporangiate ferns).

As co-owners of Emory Knoll Farms, a wholesale nursery devoted to none - other than extensive greenroof plants, they speak from a first hand working understanding and through years of species trial and error, with hundreds of greenroof projects specified and planted with their nursery stock.

Cattle ranching, agriculture and other human activities are breaking up Costa Rican forests into isolated patchy fragments, but causing more problems for native plant populations than for monkey species sharing the same habitat.

LiveRoof plants are no exception, and practically speaking, some species tolerate heat better than others, some cold better than others, some dry conditions, and others moist conditions.

I am aware that some (C3) plants will profit more than other (C4) plants from enhanced CO2 levels, which can lead to changes in relative abundance and distribution of these species.

Colombia ranks among the top five nations with the greatest diversity of plant and animal species in the world; more different kinds of birds and amphibians make their home here than in any other place on the planet.

In the U.K., the average first flowering date of more than 400 plant species occurred earlier in the last 25 years than in any other period since 1760.

Eighty percent of the world's known terrestrial plant and animal species can be found in forests, and tropical rainforests are home to more species than any other terrestrial habitat.