The phrase "characteristic species" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a certain type of species that is easily identifiable due to its unique features. For example, a sentence using the phrase could be: "The koala bear is a characteristic species found in Australia."
The illustrations include a map, landscapes, and characteristic species.
A floodplain that stops being flooded loses its special characteristic species.
It is a characteristic species of the interior of humid montane evergreen and pine-oak forests.
Many of the plantings are arranged to show characteristic species of different geographic regions of the world.
Characteristic species include big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans), and cord grass (Spartina pectinata).
Indicator values were used to find characteristic species in streams with different impacts levels.
"Generally, courting males are the fancy flashers, and they signal with their light organs in characteristic, species-specific patterns of flashes.
Characteristic species-specific protein bands were present in all the three regions of pI 3.50 5.20, pI 5.85-6.55, and pI 7.35 8.15.
Branching coral species, while altering between plastic morphological traits, present characteristic species-specific architectural rules and branching patterns that are expressed in harmony between modules and levels of organization; all for the assemblage of final colonial landscape.
With the characteristic species-dependent diameter of between 50 and 100 nm, the NPCs constitute the largest known pores in eukaryotic cells.
This rapid observed and expected decline in temperature limitation highlights the need for an improved understanding of other limitations to vegetation growth in cold regions3,4,6, such as soil characteristics, species migration, recruitment, establishment, competition and community dynamics.
