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Pteridophytes - Introduction
... and horsetails thrived in the vast swamps that stretched throughout this landscape. Click on any of the sites below, to go back in time and visit these carboniferous swamps:- http://www.peabody.yale ... Carboniferous was the age of the ferns and fern allies. The climate changed and these vast swamps dried up. These large "water-guzzlers" were ill-suited to the new drier habitats and ...
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Floridata: Taxodium distichum
... up the Mississippi Valley to southern Illinois. It often occurs in pure stands: cypress swamps. Pond-cypress, on the other hand, usually occurs in smaller, flatwoods ponds and shallow ... is extremely resistant to decay. Vast swamps have been clearcut of their cypress for construction of docks, bridges, boats, and buildings. Draining and filling of southeastern cypress swamps and centuries of over ...
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MY CARNIVOROUS PLANTS
... Tasmania and New Zealand. It inhabits a variety of places from mountain bogs to coastal swamps, always requiring an acid, soggy soil which is permanently, rather than periodically wet. The flowers ... coastal regions where it is found in poor, often rocky places, but differs from the vast majority of carnivorous plants in favouring soils which are normally rather dry, and often alkaline ...
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FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA - Volume 1, Chapter 1
... devices help us to explore the globe, and from the vast amounts of data, computers produce stunning images and maps (fig. ... Behind these beaches, low-lying areas are occupied by sounds, estuaries, swamps, or wetlands. The province comprises mostly unconsolidated marine sediments (figs. ... Central Lowland Province (figs. 1.4, 1.13) is a vast plain oriented north-south just west of the Mississippi River ...
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Thelymitras Page 250
... with non specific pollinators, the reverse should be expected, natural barriers between species and the vast range of distribution and few interested people may account for this. From experience in the ... coastal plain to the east of Esperance where it flowers January-February in winter wet swamps, sometimes in water. Over this range it maintains its integrity varying only in colour from ...
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Caladenia276
... north. Augusta in the southwest corner and Israelite Bay in the south-east. Within this vast area grow the 40 species and 10 varieties that have been named and described The ... , the most productive colonies have been those that grow adjacent to rivers, streams, lakes and swamps - and so on, and around granite rocks where the insects are very active. I hope ...
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Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
... it can be found today. The presence of "undesirable" wild-type coconuts growing in mangrove swamps is clear evidence that they were self-sown and not planted by farmers. In two ... book, Sea Routes to Polynesia (1968), Heyerdahl expresses great confidence in Polynesian sailors who crossed vast stretches of the Pacific Ocean carrying staple foods from the New World, such as sweet ...
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LIVING FOSSILS AT PALOMAR COLLEGE
... the Columbia River Gorge in central Washington. They once formed vast forests in this region over 30 million years ago. All ... many endangered plant and animal species that once flourished in vast pristine ecosystems. By the end of the dinosaur era, many ... of these vast vegetation types were not around when dinosaurs reached their peak. During the heyday of dinosaurs, the forests and swamps were ...
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International Carnivous Plant Society
... the surface of Chimanta-tepui, many different habitats can be found on the plateau (including vast savannahs, shrubby forests, dry cliffs, wet cliffs and many rivers and waterfalls). It is because ... are clearly different (see Table 1). Furthermore, the habitats of H. pulchella (open bogs and swamps) are different from the habitats of H. exappendiculata. The other species from Chimanta-tepui that ...
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Pennsylvanian Period
... 320 million years ago and ended 286 million years ago. Throughout this period, vast low-lying coastal swamps and deltas covered much of West Virginia and the eastern and midwestern U.S ...
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