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When someone in Jersey inadvertently creates a cold-tolerant Africanized bee.
Aftermath: The Calm After the Storm BikeSnobNYC 2010
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The flock gained new members as we tried new breeds: Dominiques, the black-and-white ancestors of the Barred Rocks, and Black Australorps, a cold-tolerant Australian breed quite similar to our original Sex Links.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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For fall-grown lettuce, pick varieties that are proven cold-tolerant.
Groundwork: Growing lettuce in December Adrian Higgins 2010
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For fall-grown lettuce, pick varieties that are proven cold-tolerant.
Groundwork: Growing lettuce in December Adrian Higgins 2010
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The loss of this nearshore water body has affected a unique community of marine and freshwater planktonic species, as well as communities of cold-tolerant microscopic algae and animals that inhabited the upper ice shelf.
Effects of climate change on general hydro-ecology in the Arctic 2009
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Moreover, lower minimum temperatures are likely to allow the autumnal moth and the related, less cold-tolerant winter moth (Operophtera brumata) to extend their geographic distributions into continental areas with cold winters [88].
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This productive biome, dominated by non-tree taxa, corresponded to a no-analogue environment that was relatively cold throughout the year, with a growing season short enough to exclude even cold-tolerant boreal trees from at least the majority of the landscape.
Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels 2009
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Dominant species include the cold-tolerant, xerophytic shrub, Haloxylon ammodendron (Goosefoot Family Chenopodiaceae), the tamarisk (Reaumuria spp.), and the gymnosperm Ephedra przewalski.
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A small number may have developed from remnant populations of endemic cold-tolerant plants (for example, the snow totara (Podocarpus nivalis)).
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Have you found any cold-tolerant agaves or yuccas that might work for you?
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