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								Helms, Fewellf & Rissing, Sex ratio determination by queens and workers in the ant Pheidole desertorum, Animal Behaviour 2000. angryoldfatman: Having sterile offspring is not an evolutionary advantage. 
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								The landscape is a wood-steppe and has a rich composition of Stipa Zalesskyi and Helictotrichon desertorum. Kazakh upland 2008 
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								The wet petrophitic steppes consisting of Helictotrichon desertorum have many variants. Kazakh upland 2008 
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								The reduction of native species has encouraged the spread of desert moss (Tortula desertorum), which provides no nutritional value for wildlife and prevents the re-seeding of higher forms of native plants. 
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								On the alpine slopes or in sheltered ravines, Salix denticulata, Mertensia tibetica, Potentilla desertorum, Juniperus polycarpus, Polygonum viviparum, Berberis pachyacantha, Rosa webbiana, and Spiraea lycoides dominate. 
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								At Æthiopes à suo solo neque recesserunt, neque in id alios colonos receperunt; id longinquitas effecit regionis immensaeque intercedentium desertorum vastitates. 
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								At Æthiopes à suo solo neque recesserunt, neque in id alios colonos receperunt; id longinquitas effecit regionis immensaeque intercedentium desertorum vastitates. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584 
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								See Dr. BAIRD's _Account of Helix desertorum; Excelsior, & c. _, ch.i. p. 345.] [Footnote 2: Colonel SYKES has described in the _Entomological Trans. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836 
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								See Dr. BAIRD'S _Account of Helix desertorum; Excelsior, _ &c., ch.i. p. 345.] [Footnote 2: Colonel SKYES has described in the _Entomological Trans. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836 
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