Mangroves are highly specialized ecosystem‚ which are characterized by salt resistant plants growing in the inter tidal areas along sheltered seacoasts and estuaries in the tropical and subtropical regions. India has approximately 31‚5000 ha of mangrove out of which about 65000 ha are along the west coast. Gujarat and Kerala coasts have the most degraded mangroves‚ while Maharashtra‚ Goa and Karnataka have occasional luxuriant pockets. They form extensive and highly productive forests characterized
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Relationship between organisms and environment Mai Po Nature Reserve is an internationally significant wetland which is actually a flat shallow estuary‚ at the mouth of Sham Chun River‚Shan Pui River and Tin Shui Wai Nullah. Its 380 hectare area with diverse habitats provides a conservation area for mammals‚ insects‚ amphibians‚ reptiles and over 380 species of birds‚ some of which are highly endangered. During the field trip‚ we visited five different habitats‚ including fishponds‚ mangroves
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Many of the sea creatures for example‚ shrimp‚ oysters‚ and crabs‚ are hard to find. a One of the fisherman named Darren Stander who lives about eighty miles away from where the oil spill happened said‚ "My fellow fishermen who fish crab and who fish fish‚ they’re feeling the same thing. You get a spike in production every now and then‚ but overall‚ it’s off. Everybody’s down. Everywhere there was
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Content Page Executive Summary 4 Situational Analysis 5 Macro-Environment PESTLE Analysis 5 The SWOT Analysis 7 Strength (Internal) 7 Weakness (Internal) 7 Opportunity (External) 8 Threats (External) 8 TOWS Analysis 9 Maxi-Maxi Strategy (Strength-Opportunity) 9 Maxi-Mini Strategy (Strength-Threats) 9 Mini-Maxi Strategy (Weakness-Opportunities) 10 Mini-Mini Strategy (Weakness-Threats) 10 Objective 10 Marketing Strategy 10 Technology 11 New methods of food preparation 11
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Beginning in the 1400s‚ China was isolated from the world’s influences for hundreds of years. China had long considered the Europeans to be Babarians and were not interested in goods and ideas in Europe. When the Portuguese first showed up off the coast of China trying to establish trade relations‚ the Chinese ran away from them calling the Europeans as "Ocean Devils". From the emperor’s view‚ rulers from other countries were "younger brothers" of him. The Chinese recquired the Portuguese for having
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monastic way of life‚ “If thou wilt be perfect‚ go‚ sell what thou hast‚ and give to the poor‚ and thou shalt have treasure in heaven” (Mt.19:21). In the mid third century‚ many Christians began to move out to deserted places to live ascetic lives as hermits and dedicate their lives to Christ‚ partly because Christianity was gaining acceptance and monasticism began to replace martyrdom as the highest form of
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meaning that they are being exposed to air and they are being submerged‚ thus the organisms must be adapted to emmersion in order to avoid desiccation‚ or drying up. Some examples of intertidal organisms are sea anemones‚ sea stars‚ sea urchins‚ crabs‚ mussels‚ barnacles‚ limpets‚ chitons‚ and algae. Each one of them has different adaptations to survive different abiotic factors that make life challenging for them like temperature‚ wave action‚ currents‚ competition for space‚ desiccation‚ and
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text. A true-to-life setting was established in the first paragraph with the description of the day. Being a rainy‚ gray‚ generally depressing day shows how a typical stormy day can feel. The crabs in the beginning of the story added a sense of true-to-life setting. In many coastal towns of South America‚ crab infestations become notorious at certain times of the year. The story also evolves with
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“A very old man with enormous wings” is a short story by Gabriel García Márquez tell us a story about an angel that was found by a couple (Pelayo and Elisenda). One day during killing crabs in a rainstorm that lasted for three days; Pelayo and Elisenda discovered a very old man with enormous wings in their courtyard. The old man was filthy‚ apparently senile‚ and speaks incomprehensible language. After asking the neighbor woman that according to the story “knew everything about life and death to
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Sexually Transmitted Infections Unit 9 Assignment 1 A&PII ITT Tech - Breckinridge School of Nursing Ashley Wigglesworth Genital herpes is a viral infection that causes lesions or sores in the genital area and is spread through sexual intercourse or by touching a sore and then touching another part of your body; it is a highly contagious virus. Often it does not present with symptoms‚ or produces very mild symptoms such that the infected individual is unaware they have it. When symptoms are present
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