It has a rocky and deeply indented coast dotted with more than 18,000 islands and islets, forming numerous natural harbours.
The coast is indented with numerous natural harbours, but the limestone ranges prohibit any natural access to the agricultural hinterland.
The island has since recovered, and dairying, sheep and cattle raising, and fishing (in the island's numerous indented harbours) and canning are the main economic activities.
The plant secondary metabolism generates numerous compounds harbouring pharmaceutical activity.
Because the colonisers are numerous and harbour greater genetic diversity, the re-colonised population will not experience a bottleneck, and because the genetic diversity is sampled from a range of sources, differentiation among populations will be decreased under this model.
The western fjords have numerous well-sheltered harbours and good fishing grounds but little lowland suitable for agriculture.
Its cytoplasm harbours numerous spherical bodies which structurally resemble hydrogenosomes.
The reason for this asymmetry is unclear but may be related to genome dynamics since the C. metallidurans CH34 genome harbours numerous Mobile Genetic Elements (MGEs) including many Insertion Sequence (IS) elements, transposons, and Genomic Islands (CMGIs).
It harbours numerous different endemic faunas (c. 600 species) [ 2], supporting more endemic non-cichlid species than any of the other African Great Lakes, many of which form evolutionary radiations, termed 'species flocks' [ 3].
