Complementary foods given to young children should be diverse, nutritionally dense, and thick enough to give a child the calories needed.
Related to their greater age, they harbor higher plant diversity, more developed soils with greater soil organismal activity, as well as more diverse and dense assemblages of vertebrates and arthropods.
And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city.
Its music is diverse, including dense, tribal drones; seemingly random shrieks; blissful, folksy strumming; and doo-wop harmonies.
"I recognize that enumerating the population of New York City is a Herculean and unenviable challenge, given the city's large, diverse and dense population, which lives primarily in difficult to count housing arrangements," Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said in a letter to Robert M. Groves, the director of the Census Bureau.
Current housing developments of extense crowded terraced-houses, with shortage of gardens, supported the least diverse and dense bird populations.
The study also found a good supply of the tree cavities preferred by screech owls as well as a suitably diverse and dense forest.
Accordingly, we recommend that when planning new gardens, designers will avoid large lawns, prefer diverse and dense shrubberies, native trees, and will create some areas that will not be accessible to dogs and people.
Both the surface and the interior of the plant leaf are known to contain diverse and dense bacterial communities, which are distributed both as single cells and extensive biofilms [ 14].
