the irreversible clearance and can destroy an entire ecosystem causing environmental threats‚ such as green house gas emissions‚ a rise in soil salinity‚ the destruction of natural habitats for animals‚ the decrease and even extinction in indigenous flora and fauna‚ as well as erosion. Extensive land clearing is a problem in Australia‚ New Zealand and Tasmania. History For the most part‚ land clearing has been utilized to make way for agricultural and urban development. In the past‚ governments
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| Flora and Fauna | | 10/3/2013 | | Outline Australia’s unique flora and fauna: Australia has a large variety of unique flora and fauna spread all over the continent‚ from coast to coast‚ including in the ocean. More than 80 per cent of the country’s flowering plants‚ mammals‚ reptiles and frogs are unique to Australia‚ along with most of its freshwater fish and almost half of its birds. Australia is home to more than 140 species of unique marsupials‚ including kangaroos‚ wallabies
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FLORA IN INDIA The flora of India is one of the richest of the world due to a wide range of climate‚ topology and environments in the country. It is thought there are over 15000 species of flowering plants in India‚ which account for 6 percent of the total plant species in the world. Due to the wide range of climatic conditions‚ India holds rich variety of flora that no other country can boast of. India covers more than 45‚000 species of flora‚ out of which there are several species that are not
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Gut Feeling Have you ever had a gut feeling something bad was going to happen? Never take that feeling lightly. I did‚ and lost my best friend for it. It was a nice sunny Saturday morning. My friend Jerome called me talking about a party that was supposed to be the party of the year across town. My gut was telling me it was a bad idea‚ because across town were our rivals‚ Alcovy. A lot of animosity was built up from the game the other night. The game was so intense the basketball teams were even
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Flora & Flora (2009 & 2004) identifies seven types of capital; that plays a crucial part in communities. All these features are reflected as human factors that influence the community. The following capitals are: Natural Capital: This refers to natural resources that can be used in the community. Location is very important for this capital because it refers to the resources that can be locted in a specific space. Cultural Capital: Legacy is an important concept on culture because it relates to
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OUTDOOR ED EXAM REVISION Unit 3 AOS1 Plate Tectonics: ⁃ Pangaea ⁃ 160 million years ago Pangaea split forming Laurasia and Gondwana 3 factors that have influenced the evolution of Australia… Biological Isolation: Flora and fauna has been able to adapt over millions of years in isolation. It has been able to adapt without the influence of predators. That is why Australian fauna is very susceptible to introduced species. EG. The fact that Kangaroos have roamed around for many years
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about flora and fauna‚ they are actually referring to plants and wildlife. The plants and the wildlife that are native to a particular geographical region is also called as that particular region’s flora and fauna. Both flora and fauna are collective terms because these words always refer to the collection of plants and wildlife that are in a particular environment in a specific region or time period. The word “flora” has a latin origin and actually refers to the goddess off flowers Flora. The term
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Gregarious Chimps Harbor Richer Gut Microbiomes Article Review Every animal on earth produces bacteria that helps fight off germs and diseases from the body. In the article “Gregarious chimps harbor richer gut microbiomes”‚ the researches at Duke University performed a study on the gut microbes and the behavior of Chimpanzees. They studied the DNA droppings from forty Chimpanzees between 2000 and 2008. The article stated that in both humans and chimpanzees‚ the intestines hold lots of bacteria
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4300/6938 Biomolecules Microbes in Gut Increase Fat Absorption You may think you have dinner all to yourself‚ but you’re actually sharing it with a vast community of microbes waiting within your digestive tract. A new study from a team including Carnegie’s Steve Farber and Juliana Carten reveals that some gut microbes increase the absorption of dietary fats‚ allowing the host organism to extract more calories from the same amount of food. Previous studies showed gut microbes aid in the breakdown
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conditions to survive‚ and won`t be able to live without them. The wetland also naturally filters our water for us‚ removing extra nutrients‚ and pollution‚ which is a very good thing. We know that salt marshes are populated by different species of flora and fauna. These species would almost certainly be completely wiped out during the process. If these species are the basis for life in a salt marsh‚ us destroying them ensures that the salt marsh can
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