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Track size varies depending on the size of the terrestrial hermit crab making the trace.
They probably subsisted on insects and other small terrestrial invertebrates and perhaps even on small vertebrates.
Global climate change and its impacts on terrestrial vegetation are of major international concern at present.
Recurrent natural disturbances and abiotic stress factors are integral components of many terrestrial plant communities.
The cuticle of terrestrial vascular plants and some bryophytes is covered with a complex mixture of lipids, usually called epicuticular waxes.
The arguments centred on the ability of terrestrial vegetation to take up CO2, and retain it in the form of wood, roots and soil carbon.
Those dramatic events drastically affected the marine community, but had little impact on terrestrial flora.
Both the shortage and the excess of water may cause severe stress to terrestrial plants, with ultimately lethal outcomes.
Both the water ferns and Ceratopteris occur in clades with terrestrial ferns and the aquatic habit appears to be derived in these lineages.
Up until now more than 30,000 macrofossils have been excavated, all of which document a highly diverse terrestrial flora and fauna.
Ananas is a terrestrial genus, but it grows continuously, whereas most terrestrial orchids have distinct active and dormant phases.
Many vascular epiphytes share the understorey environment with terrestrial herbs, shrubs and tree seedlings.
The vegetation consists of succulent plants, cacti and terrestrial bromeliads, with thorny trees and bushes hitched to a sandy soil.
Within these plots we recorded all plant species observed, including terrestrial lichens.
The latter study led to the adaptive optics that now enable terrestrial telescopes to produce ultra-sharp images of distant celestial objects.
The bay bottom is characterized mainly by fine-grained terrigenous sediments with a considerable admixture of terrestrial organic matter.
Many species are fully terrestrial, many are arboreal, and at least one species, yapoks, is semi-aquatic.
In many ways, the cetacean ear is radically different from the ear of terrestrial mammals.
Included in the data set were all the available sea snake and sea krait sequences and representative terrestrial snake sequences.
Some people apply different rules to aquatic ecosystems compared to terrestrial ecosystems.
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Jutting mountains and low basins form a range of habitats suitable for a broad spectrum of terrestrial and freshwater species.
They inhabit every terrestrial ecosystem on earth, from rainforest canopies to alpine mountains, from lakes and rivers to hot dry deserts.
Sodium, by contrast, can be quite difficult to obtain for detritivores and herbivores in the terrestrial environment.
Like all gordian worms the larvae of this family parasitize on a number of aquatic and terrestrial insects.
The California tiger salamander is a large, stocky, terrestrial salamander with small eyes and a broad, rounded snout.
Thus the mesofauna represent an important trophic link of the detritus food chain to terrestrial vertebrates.
In epiphytes known values of are high even compared to mesophytic terrestrial plants.
When the tide is low, terrestrial conditions can heat and desiccate organisms beyond their tolerances.
Most amphibians hatch as aquatic, swimming larvae, then metamorphose into terrestrial forms.
While earliest insects were terrestrial, earliest pterygotes had aquatic immatures.
She has long been creating terrestrial and aerial topographies, and the installation anticipates her own design for the Roman museum itself.
Unlike kelp and other seaweed, sea grasses are descended from terrestrial plants, which adapted to shallow non-rocky coastal waters.
In addition to sheathbills, he worked on albatrosses, petrels, penguins, and terrestrial invertebrates.
Loess is a terrestrial sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust.
Fine roots are an important source and sink for nutrients in terrestrial biogeochemistry.
Naked lobose amoebae are among the most abundant group of protists present in all aquatic and terrestrial biotopes.
While the true scorpions have been classified in the Arachnida along with the scorpions, spiders, mites, etc, these being primarily terrestrial.
Thus, bipedality of terrestrial theropods and birds must be convergent, and all hindlimb, pelvis, and tail characters can be discounted.
The mostly free-living Turbellaria are found in the oceans, in fresh water, and in moist terrestrial habitats, and a few are parasitic.
In a few years, PDAs will probably be able to function as televisions by receiving terrestrial digital signals, says Hinze.
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Deforestation, injury to and loss of agricultural land, the loss of terrestrial and marine plant and animal species must be halted.
A terrestrial orchid of Tamil Nadu, the Golden Vanda, puts out flowers in the sizzling heat of April.
Even if a terrestrial planet does exist in the Goldilocks zone it would be peppered with asteroid impacts.
The animal at the left is an Australian Slater, or terrestrial isopod from Lord Howe Island.
On the lower shelf are two books, a lute, a terrestrial globe, a case of flutes, a set square, and a pair of dividers.
Like spiders, they were terrestrial and respired through book lungs, and walked on eight legs.
One or two pairs of tentacles are found on the head, depending on whether the snail or slug is terrestrial or aquatic.
Emissions of sulfur dioxide and metals from smelters can cause damage to surrounding terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
While in freshwater, Chinook Salmon fry and smolts feed on plankton and then terrestrial and aquatic insects, amphipods and crustaceans.
This approach exploits the ability of terrestrial plants to absorb contaminants from the rhizosphere and translocate them to the shoot.
Also present is a considerable background of soft radiation, which apparently is also x-radiation of non-solar or terrestrial origin.
Although they are terrestrial creatures, these crabs descend to the sea to spawn, and their larvae live in salt water for a time.
Vermonters were likely proud to possess one of these impressive terrestrial globes.
For that reason the earliest terrestrial vertebrates did not come equipped with an occiput, as we understand the term.
Such a growth trajectory is uncommon or unreported among terrestrial vertebrates and merits closer examination.
Some have direct development of terrestrial eggs, and even ovovivipary and true viviparity are known in caudates.
Oviparity with free-swimming larvae is the most common, but direct terrestrial development and viviparity are known in toads as well.
As observed earlier, the Convention applies to biodiversity from all sources, viz. terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic sources.
Most caecilians are terrestrial burrowers, either constructing their own tunnels or living in the litter of the forest floor.
With the terrestrial giants in decline, cable and satellite look set to rule the airwaves for some time to come.
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The phenomenon of flowers pollinated by pseudocopulation has been very well documented for Afro-European and Australian terrestrial orchids.
Although they are amphibians, caecilians are denizens of the terrestrial underworld.
Fineline Productions will then take their film on to the festival circuit with a view to having it shown on terrestrial television.
Samples were taken from hadrosaurs, dinosaurs with exclusively terrestrial life habitats, so that all animals lived in contact with fresh waters.
The coastal intertidal zone is the area between the low and high tide zones that is not quite oceanic and not quite terrestrial.
Now there is Channel 5, digital terrestrial television, digital satellite and cable.
Users will have access through a combination of terrestrial wireless and satellite transmissions.
These colorful, carnivorous amphibians feed heavily on both terrestrial and aquatic insects, small invertebrates, and their eggs and larvae.
Recently deposited sediments are unstable mixtures of terrestrial weathering products and organic matter.
That sufficed for terrestrial physics, and Galileo did not speculate about celestial physics as did Kepler.
No amphibian or terrestrial reptile, and only one terrestrial mammal, the hoary bat, completed the journey on its own.
Numerous recent studies in vertebrate paleontology have focused on reconstructing the ecology of terrestrial fossil communities.
Individual laminae contain unsorted palynological debris with a consistent ratio of marine and terrestrial components.
Evidently, in our solar system, life first evolved quite soon after the formation of a hospitable terrestrial environment.
As it is, when I'm working from home, terrestrial television is often chuntering in the corner, quietly dictating the order of the day.
There are no street addresses in Iraq because people define the terrestrial geography using human geography.
The purple-clawed land hermit crab is the only terrestrial hermit known from the tropical western Atlantic region.
Seeps are also present on the continents and in some cases submarine seeps are hydrologically connected to the terrestrial groundwater systems.
Of the five terrestrial channels BBC 1 and ITV close down when it gets a bit late.
Clawing through those initial pages with their illegible scrawl and phonetically terrestrial sounds required the tenacity of a saint.
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The terrestrial ecology of Pennsylvanian tropical wetlands is understood in detail, but coeval dryland ecosystems remain highly enigmatic.
The preserved hull and associated museum will continue to hold a fascination for maritime and terrestrial archaeologists.
This small crustacean is similar to the terrestrial pill bug but is aquatic and is found in only one thermal spring near Socorro, New Mexico.
Of the four inner planets, also known as terrestrial or rocky planets, Mercury is the smallest, oldest, and densest.
Yet conservation of this heritage is a century behind terrestrial archaeology, and as public fascination with it increases, so do the threats.
Beyond, near-shore islands and coral reefs provided shelter for an array of terrestrial and marine life.
A major change in terrestrial vegetation took place in the Cretaceous with the evolution of the angiosperms, or flowering plants.
If human cosmologies do not become attuned to the need to preserve our terrestrial habitat, humanity will sooner or later run out of future.
Theropod dinosaurs are seen to exhibit too many terrestrial and cursorial adaptations to be avian precursors.
Centipedes are predatory, feeding on soil invertebrates such as earthworms and terrestrial insects.
Both airborne and terrestrial laser scanning are now well established methods for the acquisition of precise and reliable 3 D geo-information.
With the discovery of Giganotosaurus and related forms, Carnosauria is once again the home of the world's largest terrestrial predators.
Uppermost Permian and Triassic terrestrial sediments conformably overlie the terminal volcanic rocks.
These lakes supported a fairly diverse aquatic fauna and were flanked by streamside terrestrial plant and animal communities.
Movement in arboreal and terrestrial environments presents very different functional challenges for locomotion.
No devitrification textures are noted in either the exogenic or terrestrial varieties.
Rheas are tall, long-legged birds, well adapted to a terrestrial lifestyle.
A key issue in astrobiology is to understand the processes responsible for the geological and geophysical evolution of terrestrial planets.
An Antarctic terrestrial ecosystem is not a particularly spectacular affair.
These actions are important in the effective use of the hindlimbs during terrestrial saltation and swimming.
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According to Mylonas, extinction of autochthonous species caused by the introduced species is unusual in terrestrial mollusks.
However when I autotune the TV it only picks up the standard 5 terrestrial channels.
A layer of epicuticular wax covers the leaves of all terrestrial plants and this layer can be amorphous to crystalline, dense or diffuse.
Given the terrestrial intermediates in the evolution of cetaceans, this is a remarkable case of convergence in axial systems.
Chris Smith is well aware that terrestrial broadcasting still commands the major share of viewing.
Because of their tendency to crystallize, most natural terrestrial glasses are geologically young.
Many Carboniferous temnospondyls appear to have been primarily terrestrial in habits, with strong limbs, but no lateral line canals.
In the majority of cases, the terrestrial hosts are carnivorous animals such as carabid beetles, praying mantids or crickets.
The tephrochronological record of Monticchio is ideal for linking both terrestrial and marine sequences of the Eastern Mediterranean.
To introduce students to tephrochronology as a means of correlating marine, ice and terrestrial proxy records of palaeoenvironmental change.
Fourier submitted his 1807 memoir together with additional work on the cooling of infinite solids and terrestrial and radiant heat.
Clearly we still have a ways to go before oceans and marine wildlife receive the same level of attention afforded to terrestrial ecosystems.
Transient flooding with fresh water is a world-wide phenomenon in river floodplains and wetlands as well as other terrestrial ecosystems.
Boreal forests and arctic tundra are among the coldest and least productive terrestrial environments on earth.
Fresh water habitats should not be viewed as simple appendages of protected terrestrial ecosystems as it is currently the case.
We have also focused on the potential health effects of dust on terrestrial ecosystems in the Caribbean and southeastern United States.
The plants, invertebrates, and tetrapods can be thought of as three separate subsystems of the larger terrestrial ecosystem.
Body size distributions have been linked to physical habitat structure in terrestrial ecosystems.
It is now widely recognized that the events at the Permian-Triassic boundary gave rise to major terrestrial ecosystem collapse.
Predicting the impact of environmental change on terrestrial ecosystems is severely limited by a lack of understanding of basic soil processes.
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In the past, ecosystem ecologists have focused considerably more attention on the cyling of nitrogen in terrestrial ecosystems than phosphorus.
We're pleased that most of Britain's premier sporting events are now live on terrestrial television.
Events that appear set to continue to be broadcast on terrestrial television include the All Ireland finals and rugby internationals.
Freeview will launch after significant improvements have been made to the quality and reliability of the digital terrestrial television signal.
As the newest of the five terrestrial channels the station has had an uphill struggle to get into the hearts and minds of the viewing public.
While there are still some expensive series for children on terrestrial television, they are the exception rather than the rule.
Another issue is the regulation of terrestrial television stations and the explosion of digital TV channels.
A quick check in this week's listings threw up the following property-related shows on the five terrestrial channels.
The terrestrial planets in our solar system all have very specific spectroscopic fingerprints that tell us quite a bit about their atmospheres.
From the evidence found on the Moon, geophysicists can extrapolate a picture of the early history of the four terrestrial planets.
Scientists see Titan as a complex world, closer to a terrestrial planet than a moon typical of the outer planetary systems.
Moving beyond the Earth to the other terrestrial planets, we find that the rocks there are also dominantly silicates.
Like their terrestrial counterparts, the oceanic deserts are low in biomass.
Beaches are transition ecosystems between marine and terrestrial environments.
However, insects remained very rare and marginal members of the terrestrial fauna through the Mississippian.
The astragalus of diadectids is identical to those of late Paleozoic terrestrial amniotes in structure and relationship to neighboring elements.
Eastern Box Turtles are omnivorous terrestrial reptiles found throughout much of the Eastern United States.
Male fowl are often vigilant, and they use two types of alarm call to signal aerial and terrestrial predators.
But somewhat surprisingly, this terrestrial arachnid doesn't mind swimming, either.
However, the man-woman pair bond and man child pair bond are not paralleled by any terrestrial primate nor many mammals.
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As terrestrial creatures, we tend to think of life on our planet as being essentially life on land.
Daniels is the owner of seven tortoises, as terrestrial turtles are commonly known.
Such antipredator behavior is extremely common, occurring in taxa ranging from aquatic invertebrates to terrestrial mammals.
The emergence of terrestrial vertebrates from fish in the Late Devonian was one of the most significant events in the history of life.
Northern Waterthrushes eat large aquatic and terrestrial insects, small crustaceans, and other invertebrates.
During the Norian age the fortunes of the many types of Carnian terrestrial herbivores seem to have declined.
Aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates are the most common food of the Solitary Sandpiper.
Warm-blooded animals are the only terrestrial creatures that live in large herds or flocks or that migrate long distances.
In terrestrial vertebrates, otoconia are found in three inner-ear sensors, the saccule, the utricle, and the lagena.
The fossil trackway undoubtedly was produced by a terrestrial hermit crab, like those that are common in beach and dune environments in the Bahamas today.
Most cetacean studies lack the detail of studies on terrestrial species.
The canopy of sky implies its counterpart, the terrestrial sphere.
The license from 2005 for LightSquared was explicitly for phones that used both satellite and terrestrial networks.
Hypothesized forces selecting for coloration in sponges include aposematism, as has been shown in a variety of marine and terrestrial organisms, and photoprotection.
This five-year project, which started in mid-2003, is investigating the changes that took place in Palaeotropical terrestrial habitats towards the end of the Moscovian Age.
The proposed approach to terrestrial xenology has the attractive advantage not to require complex and sometimes very artificial scenarios for the early history of the Earth.
Placostylus ambagiosus pandora is a subspecies of very large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bulimulidae.
Death adders are terrestrial elapids who superficially resemble vipers.
The terrestrial biosphere is, indeed, a vast natural carbon store, but its capacity to take up substantially increased quantities of CO2 is severely limited.
According to Parish, peatlands around the world store 25 to 30 percent of all the carbon in terrestrial ecosystems and regulate the flow of water.
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In terrestrial environments, the storage of food in caches or hoards similarly results in valuable patches that can benefit the owner but potentially can be pilfered.
Recent developments in Pleistocene stratigraphy have enabled a better correlation to be made of terrestrial sequences with the much more complete marine sequences.
Many species of the salamander genus Bolitoglossa are arboreal, rather than typically terrestrial, and their feet are modified for climbing on smooth surfaces.
Natural features such as the Shark River Slough form a major coastward conduit for freshwater and terrestrial materials that influence and contribute to marine sediments.
In terms of the management of terrestrial television and radio stations, the media's role of both serving the public and serving as public forums should be emphasized.
Perhaps these early birds still retained enough features of their terrestrial ancestry to facilitate a readaptation to ground life in appropriate ecological circumstances.
An empirical permineralization model was developed for the setting of a normal peat deposit overlain by a thick terrestrial shale deposited by a nearby river.
He showed how terrestrial animals such as snails can survive immersion even in salt water by forming a hard membranous diaphragm over the mouth of the shell.
Massive undersea landslides and the breakage of ice or sediment dams impounding large lakes are terrestrial processes that lead to release of water.
The exception is the United States where sports rights have not migrated to Pay TV but stayed with one of the three private terrestrial networks, for a variety of reasons.
These totals incorporate both terrestrial and aquatic angiosperms, together with gymnosperms, including the enigmatic gnetophyte Welwitschia mirabilis.
It would require a sudden transformation of forelimbs from a retractive, terrestrial, weight-bearing stroke to a depressive, protractive, aerial, thrust-generating stroke.
With substantial on-screen competition from cable and satellite as well as terrestrial broadcasters, expectations of the BBC have never been higher.
Lady slippers and some kinds of cymbidium are terrestrial orchids.
The rich polysemic nature of Kanak languages, some intricately entwined with Polynesian vocabularies, testify to these congruences of aquatic and terrestrial meaning.
The first orchids were large terrestrial plants, but like bromeliads, orchids took to the trees, where they have diversified to become the largest family of flowering plants.
Plant material accumulated on the pond bottom, creating anoxic conditions that favored the preservation of terrestrial arthropods such as the millipedes and arachnids.
Red foxes are terrestrial and either nocturnal or crepuscular.
Ranunculus repens is a terrestrial plant that thrives in damp habitats.
Dromaeosaurs were all bipedal, fairly cursorial, and terrestrial.
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The ubiquitous gagster from Motherwell is about to invade terrestrial television with a football programme later this month, enlarging an already generous media profile.
In a terrestrial plant, the slightly alkaline cytoplasm of a typical cell is sandwiched between the acidic apoplast and the likewise acidic vacuole.
As in other spacefaring nations, the question is often asked whether space exploration is worthwhile when there are contemporary terrestrial needs that must be addressed.
The remaining part of the Cambrian sequence represents a complete marine transgressive cycle, which follows terrestrial deposition of the basal sequence.
The Crustaceamorpha are arguably the most well known of the arthropods because of their contributions to aquatic, aerial, and terrestrial food webs.
The reef is an improbable landscape of improbable creatures, and we can do little but borrow descriptions from the terrestrial world in an attempt to describe them.
Yogic meditation allowed Vedic sages to see in their minds' eyes, the likenesses, homologies and equivalences between the cosmic, the terrestrial and the spiritual.
The rate at which nitrogen is mineralized from the soil organic matter pool is an important rate-limiting step in the cycling of nitrogen in terrestrial systems.
Mesites, small terrestrial birds with poor powers of flight, are especially noteworthy because they are one of the very oldest branches of the gruiform tree.
A terrestrial telescope with sharply defined markings placed in one of its image planes can be fitted to a weapon to offer magnification of the target and enhance accuracy.
Like terrestrial atomic power, space nuclear power has a problematic past.
Some handsets are available that can receive free analog terrestrial broadcasts but these pictures tend to break up when transmitted to a moving device.
There are two principles on which alterations in the force of terrestrial magnetism may act, changeably, on any previously existing quantity of a ship's magnetism.
Wood mice are small rodents common in mixed forest and scrublands at our study area, where virtually no other terrestrial rodent species is present.
Steve Gillett suggests a hybrid view that combines anthropocentrism as applied to terrestrial activity with biocentrism for worlds with indigenous life.
The carcharodontosaurs were among the largest terrestrial predators that ever lived, some reaching as much as forty feet long and weighing four tons.
Most populations rely on terrestrial habitats for maternity denning and some take refuge on land in areas where the sea ice melts completely during summer.
Galileo took the position that all celestial phenomena should be interpreted in terms of terrestrial analogies, against Aristotle's basic postulate of essential differences.
The first tetrapods, or land-living vertebrates, appeared during the Devonian, as did the first terrestrial arthropods, including wingless insects and the earliest arachnids.
Shifts between aquatic and terrestrial habitats were likely promoted by the availability of malacostracans in both terrestrial and aquatic habitats.
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In my view, it is dangerous to rely on enantiomeric ratios of protein amino acids because of the omnipresent problem of terrestrial contamination.
The enigmatic graniferous tracheary inclusions which characterize so many terrestrial parasite haustoria are generally absent in aerial mistletoes.
That could result in a co-development of many industries such as terrestrial point-to-point rocket service, orbital tourism, teleoperation, and robotics.
Abundant terrestrial gastropods found clustered around fossil plant detritus may have been deposit feeders scavenging dry portions of channel floors.
His hard-headedness was also in evidence when the Tour's television contract was awarded to Sky, much to the chagrin of the terrestrial traditionalists.
Root systems of terrestrial plants serve many important tasks among which anchorage of the plant and uptake of water plus nutrients are the most important ones.
If ever a show deserved to get a repeat on terrestrial TV, this is it.
The water turnover rates of hummingbirds feeding on dilute nectar are more similar to those of amphibious and aquatic organisms than to those of terrestrial vertebrates.
Hawaii may have no native terrestrial mammals, but the islands do harbor one native aquatic mammal, the monk seal, and one native flying mammal, the hoary bat.
Dated marine and terrestrial sediments allow estimation of the timing of wind gap formation and rates of lateral propagation of the South Alkyonides Fault.
Aerial plankton traps deployed on ships and airplanes have documented a diversity of small to minute terrestrial insects and arachnids in the air stream over the open Pacific.
Whereas terrestrial longitude uses meridians of longitude, right ascension uses hour circles which run between the north and south celestial poles.
Interactions between these climate stress factors may exacerbate the rate and direction of individual climate stress factors and their effects on terrestrial ecosystems.
Because turbinates reduce respiratory water and heat loss, they are tightly linked to high rates of lung ventilation in these terrestrial endotherms.
This is especially true of the ocean, where impacts are less obvious than for terrestrial systems.
Peatland streams potentially represent important conduits for the exchange of gaseous carbon between the terrestrial ecosystem and the atmosphere.
Concerns about global climate change and predicted changes in terrestrial ecosystems highlight the need for the accurate quantification of productivity at all scales.
Pinnipeds have a simple stomach that is similar in structure to terrestrial carnivores.
The occurrence of babesiasis affecting small terrestrial mammals and the importance of this zoonosis in Europe.
Plant a densely clustering terrestrial or lithophyte, flowering 45-120 cm tall.
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Plant a terrestrial, lithophyte or rheophyte, flowering 40-60 cm tall, spreading by 2-6 cm x 5 mm slender stolons.
Wu commented, are that populations of many of the terrestrial and lithophytic orchids are extremely large.
Ring-tailed lemurs have both aerial and terrestrial alarms, but ruffed lemurs do not.
The terrestrial fauna is highly diverse, with a bias towards medium-sized game such as bettongs, bandicoots and wallabies.
Therefore, copper does not bioaccumulate or biomagnify in aquatic or terrestrial food chains.
Similarly, Cheilanthes tenuifolia was terrestrial or saxicolous, and Asplenium lanceolatum was saxicolous or epiphytic at different sites.
Mostly species are epiphytic but some are saxicolous, and rarely are there terrestrial ones.
Previously, Smith had linked a terrestrial fungus, Aspergillus sedowii, to a devastating Caribbean sea fan epidemic.
Where they do exist, terrestrial records seem to indicate a greater temperature drop than is evidenced in marine microfaunas.
Ichthyostega, which has robust limbs and only a small tail fin, appears to be the more terrestrial of the two.
The first pulsar readings proved the efficiency of HESS for inter-stellar observations from terrestrial telescopes.
Pinnipeds can move around on land, though not as well as terrestrial animals.
Recent hemerobiids are terrestrial insects and both adults and larvae prey on small soft-bodied arthropods.
Scorpions are terrestrial chelicerates that have a fossil record extending back more than 400 million years to the Silurian Period.
These areas contain calcareous nannofossil, planktonic foraminifera, and terrestrial pollen.
Most of the staphylinids are found in terrestrial habitats such as leaf litter, plant debris, and fungi.
Just under 8 mm long, these animals belong to the suborder of terrestrial isopods, commonly known as woodlice.
Among terrestrial waterbirds, it welcomed Common Starling and Rose Starling.
Immature syrphids are aquatic or terrestrial and typically predaceous or saprophagous.
There is, however, no evidence of habitat segregation among nocturnal, congeneric, terrestrial cursorial spiders.
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Most of the cymbidiums grown under glass in this country are terrestrial orchids and originate from the Far East.
On Urocyclus, a new genus of terrestrial gasteropodous Mollusca from Africa.
However, a few terrestrial gastropod surveys have been conducted within Tennessee.
The organisation, led by John Fairley and andrew Franklin, was a pioneer that shaped the way terrestrial viewers watched the gee-gees.
The NXT6000 COFDM Demodulator and FEC IC is a highly integrated solution for digital terrestrial receiver applications.
Legend's demodulators fully support the GB2006 terrestrial digital TV standard in China.
Palaeoecological and evolutionary significance of anatomically preserved terrestrial plants in Upper Carboniferous marine goniatite bullions.
It means that terrestrial processes during different stages of the Baltic Sea have great geological, pedogenetic, and archaeological importance.
Do hairworms manipulate the water-seeking behaviour of their terrestrial hosts?
Formation of a competent epidermal permeability barrier is essential to terrestrial life.
The substrates of the ferns were categorized as terrestrial, epiphytic, and saxicolous.
Although there are terrestrial organisms called extremophiles that can survive under those kinds of conditions, they would be toxic to most life.
The sea spiders, or pycnogonids, arise from an ancient lineage of arthropods and look like their sister group of terrestrial spiders.
Members of the Arcellina, especially the terrestrial species, are surrounded by resistent tests with only one small pseudostome.
Of all the vertebrates, the herptiles, mammals and birds predominate in terrestrial grassland ecosystems.
The toad has terrestrial habits, spending most of its time on shore.
About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances.
The results suggest that protein sources varied little according to geographic location and that terrestrial foods dominated at all locations.
Carlton's consortium did win the digital terrestrial franchise but the resulting company suffered difficulties in attracting subscribers.
Fully terrestrial life evolved, including early arachnids, fungi, and centipedes.
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Like other bryophytes, liverworts are small, herbaceous plants of terrestrial ecosystems.
This lunary sphere, lowest and basest to divine bodies, is first and highest to terrestrial bodies.
The matches covered are split between its two main terrestrial channels, BBC One and BBC Two.
The antenna mast still stands and is used for local terrestrial television transmission, local commercial radio and DAB broadcasts.
Satellite television did not exist, and the Eurovision Network comprised a terrestrial microwave network.
In 2012, the process of converting to Digital terrestrial television started, to be compatible with the rest of Europe.
He realised that the same force is responsible for movements of celestial and terrestrial bodies, namely gravity.
This transmitter also provides digital terrestrial television in the Swansea area.
The islands' only native terrestrial mammal, the warrah, was hunted to extinction by European settlers.
In 1997, the United States Navy contracted a vegetation survey that identified about 280 species of terrestrial vascular plants on Diego Garcia.
Since the launch of the platform in 1998, all of the ITV licensees have received gifted capacity on the digital terrestrial television platform.
When the final analogue terrestrial broadcaster, Channel 5, was launched in 1997 it too was given a number of public service requirements.
All of these terrestrial channels are transmitted via a DVB T2 digital TV signal.
California is part of the Nearctic ecozone and spans a number of terrestrial ecoregions.
New World porcupines have some arboreal adaptations that are lacking in their more terrestrial Old World counterparts.
Extraterrestrial rift valleys are also known to occur on other terrestrial planets and natural satellites.
However, terrestrial life would not greatly diversify and affect the landscape until the Devonian.
The earliest known animals fully adapted to terrestrial conditions appear during the Mid Silurian, including the millipede Pneumodesmus.
Distinct adaptations observed in bryophytes have allowed plants to colonize Earth's terrestrial environments.
To prevent desiccation of plant tissues in a terrestrial environment, a waxy cuticle covering the soft tissue of the plant provides protection.
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Viewers in Scotland receive four or five public terrestrial television stations.
With their immediate ancestors, dinosaurs were the only terrestrial nonplantigrades during the Mesozoic.
Coordinates were measured in grades on official French terrestrial ordnance charts from the French revolution well into the 20th century.
Their rapid rise to dominance of terrestrial ecosystems is thought to have been propelled by coevolution with pollinating insects.
They feed on terrestrial and aquatic insects, amphipods, and other crustaceans while young, and primarily on other fish when older.
Currently the terrestrial transmission is available in both digital and analog formats.
Antena Group channels were once available both analogue and digital in terrestrial.
Bermuda has plans to convert its three broadcast stations to ATSC digital terrestrial television in the future.
The broadcasting of digital terrestrial transmissions has led to many countries planning to phase out existing analogue broadcasts.
With DTT, viewers are limited to channels that have a terrestrial transmitter in range of their antenna.
By July 2006, Film4 had also become a 'free to air' and restarted broadcasting on digital terrestrial.
It continued to be broadcast through these means until the changeover to digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom was complete.
These plants are terrestrial in origin and are essential to the stability of the salt marsh in trapping and binding sediments.
Coastal salt marshes can be distinguished from terrestrial habitats by the daily tidal flow that occurs and continuously floods the area.
Other terrestrial animals include wolverines, moose, Dall sheep, ermines, and Arctic ground squirrels.
In these cases it is thought that these terrestrial or freshwater birds evolved from marine ancestors.
These evolutionary modifications make the spine more flexible but weaker than the spines of terrestrial vertebrates.
Myoglobin, which stores oxygen in muscle tissue, is much more abundant than in terrestrial animals.
It holds 13 of the 15 regional television licences that make up the ITV network, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom.
During the slow recovery from this catastrophe a previously obscure group, archosaurs, became the most abundant and diverse terrestrial vertebrates.

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