Many people depend on mangrove swamps for wood for construction, craft materials, medicines and honey. |
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They passed the great papyrus swamps the next day and rounded the point which marked the edge of the Canopus mouth of the Nile. |
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Giant shovelnose rays lay their eggs inshore around atolls, mangrove swamps and estuaries. |
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He was a true Georgia redneck, from the piney woods and swamps of southeastern Georgia. |
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I watch rice being planted, traditional canoes paddled in peacoloured swamps and monks in saffron robes walking along red dirt roads. |
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The pygmy hippo, which is the smallest species, occurs in West Africa, especially in or near rivers, lakes, and swamps. |
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The country will also replant and restore mangrove swamps to act as natural shields against strong waves. |
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In winter, they are found in woodland ponds and swamps, as well as coastal estuaries, bays, and inlets. |
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The lowlands include savannas, swamps, tropical rainforests, and semi-deserts. |
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The backcountry swamps of the area hold a special interest for him, and many of his paintings depict this unique wilderness. |
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He found a population of about 150 Malay inhabitants and a tropical rainforest edged by pestilential swamps. |
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The swamps include sago palms, mangroves, and patches of tropical rain forest. |
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The mangrove swamps, tidal flats and sandy isles around the lake become their home for two full months. |
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Offshore drilling, they argued, would damage coral reefs and mangrove swamps and threaten endangered sea life. |
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He ordered the nearby swamps and marshes in the city of Salinus to be drained, in order to prevent an unknown pestilence, probably malaria. |
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The resulting hummock and hollow microtopography of the forest floor is characteristic of mixed conifer and cedar swamps in New York state. |
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Muddy and broad, it picks its way across the plains, changing course at will, leaving a maze of dead ends, ox-bow lakes, swamps and lagoons. |
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They usually breed in marshes and brushy swamps with some open water, dense, low vegetation, and perches for singing. |
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Depending on the species, they may be found in freshwater, brackish, or marine areas including estuaries, swamps, marshes, and tidepools. |
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They can live in freshwater and coastal marine habitats, including rivers, lakes, marshes, swamps, and estuaries. |
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The draining of the marsh Arabs' swamps and the forcing of them into Basra slums were planned out in those buildings. |
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Visit ponds, swamps, fragile marshes, and pretty beaches along the Chesapeake, or fish the area's many streams and rivers. |
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These birds require shallow water habitats for feeding such as streams, ponds, lakes, marshes, swamps, wetlands, and flooded fields. |
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Here the great void over the altar swamps and swallows the tiny little Christ. |
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The traditional view of sauropods was that they were barely able to sustain their own weight and therefore lived in swamps. |
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Try to avoid camping near water, such as ponds and swamps where insects such as mosquitoes and horseflies are commonly found. |
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Modest-looking little plants that nestle in the moist soils of swamps or mountain hollows, mosses fascinate biologists. |
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Hillocky and small hillocky swamps, with numerous lakes, channels, and streams are widely distributed throughout the reserve. |
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The sun was overcast by clouds, and the air was spring-like, but the miasma of the swamps added a sour, heavy scent. |
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The Appalachian Mountains, Florida swamps, and Texas chaparral became the domain of armed bands of Southern deserters. |
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This is a very large catchment with a high rainfall and large swamps within the river basin. |
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Upland valleys and the headwaters of fast-flowing rivers descend to the coast through some of the world's largest swamps. |
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Scenes of milking, slaughtering and butchering cattle, and hunting wild cattle in swamps are also shown. |
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In 1854 the Town of Durban was a small settlement on a sandy plane surrounded by swamps and the bay. |
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From north and south, swamps or dense jungle rose toward a volcanic spine that was thought for decades to be too wild to support human life. |
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Here we see the elusive and shy marsh gibbon, brachiating through the sphagnum swamps. |
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Of that land base, less than half is productive forestland, the balance made up of swamps, lakes, muskeg and rocks. |
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We were nearing one of Italy's most horrid swamps, and the ground beneath us sank freely underneath our feet. |
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Moist forests, mangrove swamps, and wet farmlands are the typical habitats of Malayan moonrats. |
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Head north onto Route 59, which turns into a ribbon of blacktop cutting through palmetto thickets and cypress swamps. |
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The swamps are infested with poisonous snakes and fearsome insects with bites so strong they will either kill a man or drive him mad. |
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The bunyip lives in creeks, swamps, and billabongs and has a loud, bellowing cry. |
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Thorny bush, swamps and even tidal waves impeded early settlement, as did the belief that evil spirits inhabited the islands. |
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But their most serious threat today is habitat destruction as swamps are drained and forests cleared. |
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Except for the tidally influenced channels, most creeks dry up, with a few pockets of water left in billabongs and permanent swamps. |
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Altogether, including its associated maze of bayous and cypress swamps, the lake covers fifty square miles. |
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Rustic, self-sufficient country dwellers, Cajuns lived along the bayous and swamps of Louisiana for more than 200 years. |
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Creeks, sloughs, bayous, and swamps, including a large cypress swamp at the base of Crowley's Ridge, ran around the town. |
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They are found in lakes, swamps, rivers, and may be found in mountain streams at higher elevations. |
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Cajun boaters invented a flatboat called the bateau, to pass through shallow swamps. |
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It is fed by the Okavango river, which gradually widens into lakes and swamps before drying up in the thirstlands of the Kalahari. |
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Methane is often called marsh gas because it forms in swamps and marshes from the underwater decomposition of plant and animal material. |
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The still extensive forests, swamps, and reed-edged lakes provided cover for gangs of bandits, robbers, and deserters. |
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Yet too many of the bottom lands, swamps, and marshes that drew me back no longer exist. |
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I admire your blithe spirit in the face of overwhelming reality, and your ballsy indifference to the same gloom that frequently swamps me. |
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The coastal maritime region is filled with mangrove swamps and alluvial plains that support palm trees. |
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Slow-growing trees that thrive in fresh-water swamps, bald cypresses are disappearing all over the Southeast. |
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At the tidal swamps, the shore is a low, narrow levee separating the waters of the creeks from the backwaters of the swamps. |
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Lobrano's soft-spoken Southern manner belies the quadrennial frenzy that swamps her office each competition year. |
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Do they dare range this far north, leaving south Florida's brackish mangrove swamps, to court some distant cousin? |
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The vast coastal swamps caused by centuries of deforestation made malaria endemic in many parts of central and southern Italy. |
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Rice plantations were carefully managed waterscapes that had once been tidal swamps and basins. |
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A large number of migratory birds come to the swamps and jhils in the southern portion of the district. |
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Found all over the country, the night herons can be sighted normally near jheels, inland waters, tidal creeks and mangrove swamps. |
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Coral reefs provide protection to coastal areas and protect delicate coastal wetlands and mangrove swamps from storms. |
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The LIttle Grassbird is found in swamps and marshes, preferring thick reed beds, and will occur in temporary wetlands after rains. |
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Its large lagoons, mangrove wetlands, and swamps full of wild orchids and rare birds are all protected by the National Trust. |
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Both the dense forest interiors and the fringes edging peat swamps are favoured. |
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Take a ride on the wild side aboard an airboat and travel into the heart and soul of South Louisiana's marshes and swamps. |
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In the coal swamps of North America grew pteridosperms like Medullosa, a seed plant that resembles modern tree-ferns, but which bore seeds. |
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Habitat of the shornosed gar includes lakes, swamps, and the calm pools and backwaters of creeks and rivers. |
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We fought mosquitoes and fevers, swamps and forests, gulleyed hills and sandy soil. |
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Many of our water birds prefer the habitat of swamps, lakes and lagoons where water is not fast flowing or too deep. |
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Other episodes use spectacular photography to show Australia's tropical rainforests, swamps, wildlife, deserts, seas and natural landmarks. |
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Bottomland hardwood swamp is a name commonly given to forested swamps in the south central United States. |
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The tidal shoreline swamps of Piscataway Creek and the shore of Potomac River often have much large woody debris and flotsam from floods. |
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There are high precipices that are backed by the papyrus and ambatch swamps that form the delta of the Kagera River. |
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Actually, anacondas are slow, shy reptiles, which are found in swamps of South America. |
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A bird of southern swamps, the Anhinga is known as the Water-Turkey for its swimming habits and broad tail. |
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Cormorants and anhingas live in freshwater wetlands, swamps, lakes, rivers, and estuaries. |
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During high river discharges, overbank flows flooded extensive areas of the delta plain, creating swamps, coastal lakes and ephemeral channels. |
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You can imagine all of them bushwhacking up the Eastern Seaboard from the Maryland Swamps to NYC, Frank in his pith helmet. |
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Located at the southern tip of Pulau Pinang, this area swamps with currents, and hence presents a good chance to observe sharks, barracudas, jacks and schools of yellowtail. |
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It is a lush, steaming, tangled waterscape of swamps, soggy plains, and rice paddies crisscrossed with thousands of miles of rivers, streams, and canals. |
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It is also released naturally from swamps, wetlands and the ocean. |
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The Yucatan peninsula is a fascinating area covered by dense jungle and swamps, criss-crossed with rivers and scattered with ruins from the Mayan civilisation. |
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Plus she has her own airboat to cruise the swamps for no apparent reason. |
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A circumtropical family of eight species, including two in the New World, jacanas inhabit freshwater swamps, lakes, lagoons and seasonally flooded pastures. |
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The government ordered the evacuation of 11 other villages believed to be at risk, as bad weather brought more landslips and turned whole areas into swamps. |
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It is overlain by the lower shale member, which consists of interbedded carbonaceous shale and lignite that accumulated in coastal marsh and swamps landward of the shoreline. |
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It was obvious, even in the 1950s, that the sediments of the historic spring floods no longer reached their natural resting grounds in levees, swamps, and marshes. |
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I can assure you that already in the Pavlovian swamps of the nutso right, the glands are swelling. |
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The Island of St. Germain, the objective of the action, is a low mound of earth surrounded by swamps and was athwart the division zone of advance. |
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More prosaically, the Kombai tribe in remote Papua New Guinea swamps hoist their dwellings as much as 30m up towering sago palms to avoid enemies and repel mosquitoes. |
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The park spreads out behind the mouth of the river, where each day at twilight a flood of scarlet macaws migrates from the tropical forest to the mangrove swamps. |
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Rolling hills, jagged rock barrens, steaming swamps, and dusty grey ashlands all appear crisp and clean to the eye and have an amazing amount of variety. |
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Although some Cajuns stayed on the rivers and bayous or in the swamps, many others headed west to the prairies where they settled not in lines but in small, dispersed coves. |
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And, a three-year drought has turned forests and swamps to tinderboxes. |
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Butcher is famed for recreating, in vivid tonality and detail, the threatened Florida Everglades wilderness swamps, with their dense foliage and moss-draped cypress trees. |
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Surrounding paperbark swamps and billabongs, where much of the wildlife retreats when it gets really hot and the plains dry up, are just as bountiful. |
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Inland populations inhabit lakes, open swamps and marshes, and rivers. |
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The British Second Army was still stalled in front of Caen and the American First Army was mired in the swamps and bocage of the lower Cotentin Peninsula. |
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One hundred years ago, legions of bounty hunters were scouring the swamps and forests of Florida, looking for songbirds to adorn society ladies' hats. |
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Ancient forests, canyons, gentle babbling brooks, great rivers, mangrove swamps, open fields and pristine glaciers so blue that they rival the sky in beauty. |
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Formed by an almost continuous line of islands cutting off the ocean, it is full of circular islets covered with mangrove swamps and coconut palms. |
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The old tropical coal swamps declined and disappeared with the drier and cooler climate, surviving only in China and in high latitudes of Pangaea. |
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We take you beyond the confines of starships and space stations to Starfleet Academy, an alien colony, a desert planet, swamps, an icy planet, and even to a hellish realm. |
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If he did, he'd have found himself in a cruel parody of Gilligan's Island, a region of thick mangrove swamps and tribes of headhunters and cannibals. |
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Most at risk are oil industry vessels working in the coastal swamps west of the port of Warri, where in April two US oilmen were gunned down by pirates. |
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Winter habitat is varied, but these herons frequent forested swamps. |
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Although vast numbers of the best big trees went to the sawmill early in the century, many survived, protected by a network of swamps and wild river oxbows. |
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In fact, the lower Kinabatangan wetlands, with their swamps and oxbow lakes and forests, host the largest concentration of wildlife in Malaysian Borneo. |
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To study these reclusive animals, he wades barefoot through the swamps of Venezuela's llanos wetlands ecosystem in search of his water-dwelling subjects. |
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Indigenous to every continent except Antarctica, palms grow in arid deserts and brackish or fresh water swamps, in dry mountainous regions and tropical rain forests. |
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The river is lined with low bluffs alternating with wetlands, the latter either lightly wooded swamps or open marshes often locally dominated by a single plant species. |
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A similar indetermination swamps the last third of the film. |
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Despite the stark imagery from the famines of the 1980s, it is well endowed with large areas of cultivatable land as well as mountain ranges, swamps and rain forests. |
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I can't speak for all implementations and in fact can speak authoritatively only for the ones used by the fuzzballs, which are scattered all over the swamps. |
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He claims that his purloined oil is sent to a crude refinery deep in the mangrove swamps of the Niger Delta and then sold off at a discount to poverty-stricken local people. |
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This was more or less the situation when European traders arrived with goods that they were desirous of exchanging with the farmers of the mainland and freshwater swamps. |
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Polygonum hydropiperoides, Michaux, is Mild water pepper, found in wet soil and swamps throughout the United States, and flowering from June to September. |
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Swamps are home to the Nile crocodile which breeds mainly in the river's northern section. |
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Red maple buds are decorating swamps, and blue-eyed grasses dot our fields. |
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No pylons, no chemical-poisoned swamps, no cylindrical gas tanks. |
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A time of forests, swamps, seed ferns, mosses, lycopods and the origin of the amniote egg. |
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American alligators live in swamps, ponds, and streams of southeastern states such as Florida and Louisiana. |
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Surrounding the river for most of its length, however, were swamps, bogs and marshes. |
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You'll need a car for this, but it's worth it to zoom through the swamps on an airboat like James Bond, spotting alligators and other wildlife. |
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Unlike other tortoises, the western swamp tortoise feeds and breeds in shallow swamps in winter and aestivates in summer. |
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The Massasauga is emphatically a species of the prairies and their swamps and marshes. |
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Tropical swamps dominated the Earth, and the lignin stiffened trees grew to greater heights and number. |
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Morphometric measurements and meristic counts in mudskipper from mangrove swamps of Lagos lagoon, Nigeria. |
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Most harvesting in New Zealand swamps is done only using pitchforks without the use of heavy machinery. |
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The distinct types of relief include regions of high mountains, low hills, dissected plateaus, intermontane valleys, and coastal swamps. |
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In the extreme west of Lower Saxony is the Emsland, a traditionally poor and sparsely populated area, once dominated by inaccessible swamps. |
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To the west of the highlands, the increasingly arid terrain gradually slopes down to the Mozambique Channel and mangrove swamps along the coast. |
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The original concessions to oil companies purposefully assigned swamps and wetlands along the East border of the lakes for facilities. |
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In some colder parts of the world there are tree lines around swamps, where there are no local tree species that can develop. |
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The Neolithic people continued to exploit the reed swamps for their natural resources and started to construct wooden trackways. |
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A decade of monitoring prothonotary warblers in nest boxes in southern-Illinois swamps gave Hoover the idea for the new experiment. |
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Bog iron is a form of impure iron deposit that develops in bogs or swamps by the chemical or biochemical oxidation of iron carried in solution. |
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The polar forests are low and are mixed with swamps, lichens, bogs and shrubs. |
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Then Christmas Day dawned, and there was Vicksburg lifted two hundred feet above the fever swamps, her court-house shining in the morning sun. |
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After that, it consists of swamps and dry reaches before finally disappearing in the desert terrain east of Jilib, near the Jubba River. |
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During the Triassic this area was a desert, while in the Jurassic it was part of a tropical sea, and in the Cretaceous it was covered by swamps. |
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Combined with the hoards deposited in rivers and swamps, it indicates religious beliefs connected with water. |
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Where lakes and swamps are present, the water is marshy and generally unpotable. |
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Everything is authentic, from the Dinka wrestling, the ash-covered faces in a cattle camp, to the floating villages that inhabit the Sudd swamps. |
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Sunda gharials are native to lowland swamps in South East Asia, where their numbers are diminishing due to habitat loss and hunting. |
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Towards the end of this period the basin rose above sea level, and extensive coal forming swamps developed, particularly in the Anambra Basin. |
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Over time these swamps became deposits of coal in the Transantarctic Mountains. |
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Canals dug for the oil and gas industry also allow storms to move sea water inland, where it damages swamps and marshes. |
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During the Permian period, the land became dominated by seed plants such as Glossopteris, a pteridosperm which grew in swamps. |
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They are also seen on mountains, swamps, grasslands, and even open cultivated fields. |
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In the quiet water of swamps, lakes and lagoons, fine sediment is deposited, mingled with organic material from dead plants and animals. |
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In the lowland tidewater and piedmont, yellow pines tend to dominate, with bald cypress wetland forests in the Great Dismal and Nottoway swamps. |
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Examples of continental environments are lagoons, lakes, swamps, floodplains and alluvial fans. |
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Similarly, Jaekel interpreted the Halberstadt finds as animals that waded too deep into swamps, became mired and drowned. |
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While some areas lost ground, other areas saw swamps and bogs be drained and turned into arable land. |
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Sunda gharials are native to lowland swamps in South East Asia where their numbers are diminishing due to habitat loss and hunting. |
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Most of the sharks were marine, but the Xenacanthida invaded fresh waters of the coal swamps. |
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This promoted the development of extensive lowland swamps and forests in North America and Europe. |
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Many have broad areas of meander and result in large areas of lakes and freshwater swamps. |
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The river, once an unnavigable series of braided streams broken up by swamps and ponds, has been managed by weirs into a single channel. |
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The Ems became a road leading nowhere for them, nor were they ever able to bridge the swamps satisfactorily with causeways. |
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They look upward to navigate from roots in mangrove swamps to the open lagoon and back, watching for the mangrove canopy, where they feed. |
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Mangrove swamps occur along parts of both coasts, with banana plantations occupying deltas near Costa Rica. |
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In the 1960s, larger sections of swamps and bogs in Western Russia were drained for agricultural and mining purposes. |
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Grass snakes are non-venomous timid creatures that live in ponds, swamps and rivers, living off eating amphibians, such as toads and frogs. |
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Many, though not all, mangrove swamps fringe estuaries and lagoons where the salinity changes with each tide. |
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Later, river deltas formed and the sediments deposited were colonised by swamps and rain forest. |
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However, no such line exists for swamps, where trees, such as Bald cypress and the many mangrove species, have adapted to growing in permanently waterlogged soil. |
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Most CPs live in acidic swamps or bogs that are low in mineral content. |
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The land between ridges is conducive to the formation of lakes and swamps. |
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Thereafter, it flows through broad alluvial plains and swamps in the centre of the basin with the two main tributaries the Bahr el Ghazel and the Sobat joining it. |
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Also, the first reptiles and synapsids evolved in the swamps. |
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At the time the mound was surrounded north and west by the Adour swamps. |
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Prothonotary warblers nest in natural cavities or old woodpecker holes in wooded swamps where standing water remains throughout the nesting period. |
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In Malaysia, the sago palm, which grows in freshwater swamps, is an important source of starch, and is presently being used for the production of glucose. |
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Swamps have been extensively logged, leaving canals and ditches that allow saline water to move inland. |
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During the Fascist period, with the implementation of the policy of autarky, several swamps around the island were reclaimed and agrarian communities founded. |
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These conditions apparently had little effect in the deep tropics, where lush swamps, later to become coal, flourished to within 30 degrees of the northernmost glaciers. |
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Swamps have most of the balance with only a small amount in rivers, most notably the Amazon River. |
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They were often deposited in rivers and wet places like swamps. |
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Like estuaries, mangrove swamps are extremely important breeding grounds for many fish, with species such as snappers, halfbeaks, and tarpon spawning or maturing among them. |
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Densely packed giant trees, wild vegetation, and dangerous swamps in the Byelorussian forest offered concealment from the Germans and their collaborators. |
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For millions of years the American alligator survived and flourished in the fresh-and brackish-water swamps throughout the southeastern United States. |
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She was a white, thin, wraithy sort of being, with no stiffening in her spine and no real sense in her head. She couldn't be Varina Howell. Varina was not afraid of swamps. |
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Its great Cham was Wells, whose highly readable prose flowed easily between the line-drawings of behemoths in the coal swamps and Neanderthal man looking uffish. |
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Chokeberries grow in swamps in the eastern US and contain nutrients called polyphenols, which appear to reduce harmful cells without targeting healthy ones. |
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Common habitats include bogs, fens, swamps, marshes, the tepuis of Venezuela, the wallums of coastal Australia, the fynbos of South Africa, and moist streambanks. |
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These large mosses form extensive acidic bogs in peat swamps. |
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The lagoon is surrounded by large areas of swamps covered with vegetation among which the Raphia palm, the African oil palm, and the coconut palm are dominant. |
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Wildcats in the Dnestr swamps feed on small voles, water voles, and birds, while those living in the Prut swamps primarily target water voles, brown rats, and muskrats. |
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They passed alder swamps and bamboo groves and pale green reindeer moss. |
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Brian Timms described the river as a complex network of interconnecting channels with permanent waterholes, lignum swamps, rainfed claypans and salt and freshwater lakes. |
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The shores in this area are a mixture of intertidal mud, sand, and salt flats, estuarine waters, intertidal marshes, freshwater ponds, swamps, and forested peatlands. |
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