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- noun Plural form of
fauna .
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Examples
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As I have pointed out in this post, old cemeteries are great places to preserve the native snail and other faunas of otherwise rapidly developing areas.
Archive 2009-03-01 AYDIN 2009
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Pleistocene faunas from south China are difficult to subdivide based on the long temporal ranges of many taxa and a reduced number of genera in comparison to faunas from temperate north China.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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The coastal watersheds of northwestern South America have relatively sparse fish faunas compared to the great watersheds on the Atlantic side of the continent.
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Cambrian faunas was the previous entry in this blog.
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The high species richness is derived in great part from the mixing of North and South American floras and faunas on this land bridge.
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One of the earliest terrestrial tetrapod faunas known in the world is from Joggins, Nova Scotia.
Paleozoic 2009
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Two great animal faunas dominated the seas during the Paleozoic.
Paleozoic 2009
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Relationship between mean July temperature and (a) the number of nesting bird species in western and middle Siberia; (b) the number of ground beetle species in local faunas of the Taymir Peninsula; and (c) the number of day butterfly species in the middle Siberian and Beringian areas of the Arctic [2].
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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Back to the future: the contribution of palaeontology to the conservation of Australian forest faunas.
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Before Riversleigh's fossil record began to unfold, there was only one Tertiary species known, but different thylacines have been identified from Riversleigh's Oligo-Miocene faunas.
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