Sentence examples for terrestrial flora from inspiring English sources

As a consequence, the terrestrial flora and fauna of Antarctica are few.

That history reveals patterns, some of which, the domination of terrestrial flora by the flowering plants, for example, are vast in space and time.

The institution features Ozark habitat and species galleries, exhibits of American aquatic and terrestrial flora and fauna, and historical collections of hunting and fishing equipment and practices.

We documented changes in the abundance and composition of terrestrial flora and fauna with respect to distance from the sea edge and timing of large allochthonous inputs from the Salton Sea, California.

Hence it is necessary to have a mechanism to counter such problems and there is a growing need for further studies for understanding the interaction between nanomaterials and terrestrial flora.

Nevertheless, angiosperms were relatively minor components of the terrestrial flora until the Cenozoic (Wing and Boucher 1998; Coiffard et al. 2012).

Surprisingly, although many Laramidian dinosaurs were large-bodied (>1000 kg, with many taxa >2000 kg), it has been postulated that Late Cretaceous terrestrial floras and faunas on this landmass were subdivided into distinct northern and southern "biomes," or "provinces," with the boundary located approximately in the region of present day northern Utah and Colorado [2] [4].

It is generally accepted that cycads first became significant components of terrestrial floras during the Late Triassic as part of a global floral turnover with primitive seed-plant floras being replaced by conifers and cycads after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction (252.2 Ma) [ 40, 112, 113].

Environmental conflicts have been minimized by siting projects on agricultural and grazing lands; however, wind farms are known to negatively impact bats and birds (Drewitt and Langston 2006; Baerwald and Barclay 2009), and their expansion onto wildlands could impact terrestrial native flora and fauna.

The Natural History of the Bahamas offers the most comprehensive coverage of the terrestrial and coastal flora and fauna on the islands of the Bahamas archipelago, as well as of the region's natural history and ecology.

However, the presence of terrestrial fauna and flora of Paleocene age provides evidence of at least some emergent tracts of land (Chatham Peninsula) along the Rise until at least the mid- to late Paleocene.