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Vernal Pool Fairy Shrimp
Fairy shrimp embryos are protected throughout the dry, hot summer by a tough outer covering around each egg. But soon after being immersed ... --often in as little as two weeks. Eggs are transported from pool to pool, or dry depression to dry depression, by 'hitching a ride' on wading animals. The fairy shrimp may also be dispersed ...
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Freshwater Website: Informational Resources and Services (Glossary)
A continuous and lengthy period during which no significant precipitation is recorded. dry deposition - Emissions of sulphur and nitrogen oxides that, in the absence of water in ... in industrial wastes. pond - A small natural body of standing fresh water filling a surface depression, usually smaller than a lake. precipitation - Water falling, in a liquid or solid state, from ...
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Eco-Pros Grasslands and Prairies
Southwest creating huge smothering dust storms. The soil in the grasslands had become dry and loose from plowing and the damage caused by livestock grazing. The roots of the ... area affected in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. People and Events - The Great Depression, The Drought, Black Sunday, Mass Exodus from the Plains, The New Deal, Works Progress Administration ...
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EMS - Environmental Entomology - Invertebrate Surveys and Conservation - Bird and Insect Databases
Phragmites reed; also other tall vegetation and low shrubs over dry ground few metres n/k up to 1000 pairs/sq km grass ... n/k n/k n/k shallow depression, little material, lined with down female, male in attendance; female forms depression n/k n/k n/k ... as grass or growing crop 60-100m n/k n/k shallow depression; lined with grass, leaves and stems, inner lining with finer material female ...
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Education Info
The cone of depression describes a three-dimensional inverted cone surrounding ... neighboring wells to run dry. The picture below illustrates the result of interference between two wells' cones of depression. In order to ... could result in a "dry well." Knowledge of the lateral, or sideways, extent of the cone of depression helps in identifying the ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – Search
December to February/March. Wolves utilize all Afroalpine habitats, but prefer open areas ... genetic integrity of the wolf population. Following hybridization, a population may be affected by outbreeding depression or reduction in fitness, although to date this does not seem to have taken place ...
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PISCES - Florida Everglades
Gulf of Mexico Loop Current and the Gulf Stream form the Dry Tortugas to the southeastern tip of Florida, and confined by the ... in the world, running from the Miami area southwest to the Dry Tortugas. forage -to search for food or water. Back to Index G ... especially one that is part of an inlet or backwater. solution holes - depression in the Earth’s surface caused by dissolving of substrate composed ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
Mount Kilimanjaro (5,894 m); the lowest point is in the Qattara Depression, at 132 m below sea level. Africa's vast plateaus are broken only by a ... zone; and the remainder of the continent is dryland, consisting of arid, semi-arid, and dry subhumid areas (UNEP, 1992). These drylands are home to about 400 million people-two-thirds ...
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Gopher Tortoise Council About Gopher Tortoise
Gopher tortoises, or "gophers" as they are commonly called, live in extensive subterranean burrows in dry upland habitats. The habitats where gopher tortoises are found include longleaf pine sandhills, xeric ... (beware of traffic!). -Tortoises as Food. Tortoises were a reliable source of food during the Depression, when there was little else to eat. Of course, these so called "Hoover chickens" were ...
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Ferret News #42 - Depression in Ferrets & Bathing Ferrets
Although, for the most part, ferrets adapt to new people, ferrets ... to bring him through the illness. So depression in ferrets is really quite similar to depression in people, without the higher-functioning symptoms ... figure out that towels are for getting dry (you know the ones -- they try to dry themselves on plastic tubes or the ...
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