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79 relations: Agropyron pungens, Algae, Ammophila breviligulata, Anemophily, Ant, Aquatic plant, Argemone mexicana, Asexual reproduction, Autotroph, Bacteria, Beaver, Bidens pilosa, Bird colony, Buddleja davidii, Chaparral, Climax species, Colonisation (biology), Colony (biology), Conifer cone, Deforestation, Diazotroph, Earthworm, Ecological niche, Ericaceae, Fauna, Flora, Forb, Fungus, Graminoid, Green algae, Hawaii, Heath, Herbivore, Introduced species, Invasive species, Invertebrate, Keystone species, Lava, Leaf mold, Leymus arenarius, Lichen, List of plants known as nettle, Metrosideros polymorpha, Moss, Native plant, Natterjack toad, Nutrient cycle, Orthent, Pedogenesis, Photosynthesis, ..., Placopsis, Plant litter, Polystichum munitum, Protist, Racomitrium, Raspberry, Reproductive success, Resprouter, Rubus, Ruderal species, Sadleria cyatheoides, Salicornia virginica, Secondary succession, Seral community, Sexual reproduction, Spartina, Spartina anglica, Species, Steady state, Stereocaulon, Surtsey, Tagetes minuta, Transpiration, Vaccinium reticulatum, Vallisneria americana, Vertebrate, Wildfire, Wildflower, Zostera. Expand index (29 more) »
Agropyron pungens
Agropyron pungens, sea couch grass is a species of grass of the genus Agropyron in the Poaceae family.
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Algae
Algae (singular alga) is an informal term for a large, diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are not necessarily closely related, and is thus polyphyletic.
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Ammophila breviligulata
Ammophila breviligulata (American beachgrass or American marram grass) is a species of grass that is native to eastern North America, where it grows on sand dunes along the Atlantic Ocean and Great Lakes coasts.
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Anemophily
Anemophily or wind pollination is a form of pollination whereby pollen is distributed by wind.
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Ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
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Aquatic plant
Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments (saltwater or freshwater).
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Argemone mexicana
Argemone mexicana (Mexican poppy, Mexican prickly poppy, flowering thistle, cardo or cardosanto) is a species of poppy found in Mexico and now widely naturalized in many parts of the world.
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Asexual reproduction
Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single organism, and inherit the genes of that parent only; it does not involve the fusion of gametes, and almost never changes the number of chromosomes.
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Autotroph
An autotroph ("self-feeding", from the Greek autos "self" and trophe "nourishing") or producer, is an organism that produces complex organic compounds (such as carbohydrates, fats, and proteins) from simple substances present in its surroundings, generally using energy from light (photosynthesis) or inorganic chemical reactions (chemosynthesis).
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Bacteria
Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.
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Beaver
The beaver (genus Castor) is a large, primarily nocturnal, semiaquatic rodent.
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Bidens pilosa
Bidens pilosa is a species of flowering plant in the aster family.
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Bird colony
A bird colony is a large congregation of individuals of one or more species of bird that nest or roost in proximity at a particular location.
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Buddleja davidii
Buddleja davidii (spelling variant Buddleia davidii), also called summer lilac, butterfly-bush, or orange eye, is a species of flowering plant in the family Scrophulariaceae, native to Sichuan and Hubei provinces in central China, and also Japan.
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Chaparral
Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the US state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.
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Climax species
Climax species, also called late seral, late-successional, K-selected or equilibrium species, are plant species that will remain essentially unchanged in terms of species composition for as long as a site remains undisturbed.
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Colonisation (biology)
Colonisation or colonization is the process in biology by which a species spreads to new areas.
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Colony (biology)
In biology, a colony is composed of two or more conspecific individuals living in close association with, or connected to, one another.
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Conifer cone
A cone (in formal botanical usage: strobilus, plural strobili) is an organ on plants in the division Pinophyta (conifers) that contains the reproductive structures.
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Deforestation
Deforestation, clearance, or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.
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Diazotroph
Diazotrophs are bacteria and archaea that fix atmospheric nitrogen gas into a more usable form such as ammonia.
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Earthworm
An earthworm is a tube-shaped, segmented worm found in the phylum Annelida.
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Ecological niche
In ecology, a niche (CanE, or) is the fit of a species living under specific environmental conditions.
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Ericaceae
The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acid and infertile growing conditions.
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Fauna
Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time.
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Flora
Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life.
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Forb
A forb (sometimes spelled phorb) is an herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid (grasses, sedges and rushes).
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Fungus
A fungus (plural: fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
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Graminoid
In botany and ecology, the term graminoid refers to a herbaceous plant with a grass-like morphology, i.e. elongated culms with long, blade-like leaves.
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Green algae
The green algae (singular: green alga) are a large, informal grouping of algae consisting of the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/Streptophyta, which are now placed in separate divisions, as well as the more basal Mesostigmatophyceae, Chlorokybophyceae and Spirotaenia.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.
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Heath
A heath is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation.
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Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.
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Introduced species
An introduced species (alien species, exotic species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species) is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental.
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Invasive species
An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.
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Invertebrate
Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.
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Keystone species
A keystone species is a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its environment relative to its abundance.
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Lava
Lava is molten rock generated by geothermal energy and expelled through fractures in planetary crust or in an eruption, usually at temperatures from.
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Leaf mold
Leaf mold (Leaf mould outside of the United States) is the product of slow decomposition of deciduous shrub and tree leaves.
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Leymus arenarius
Leymus arenarius (L.) Hochst.
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Lichen
A lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi in a symbiotic relationship.
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List of plants known as nettle
Nettle is part of the English name of many plants with stinging hairs, particularly those of the genus Urtica.
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Metrosideros polymorpha
Metrosideros polymorpha, the ōhia lehua, is a species of flowering evergreen tree in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, that is endemic to the six largest islands of Hawaiokinai.
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Moss
Mosses are small flowerless plants that typically grow in dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady locations.
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Native plant
Native plants are plants indigenous to a given area in geologic time.
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Natterjack toad
The natterjack toad (Bufo calamita) is a toad native to sandy and heathland areas of Europe.
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Nutrient cycle
A nutrient cycle (or ecological recycling) is the movement and exchange of organic and inorganic matter back into the production of matter.
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Orthent
In USDA soil taxonomy, orthents are defined as entisols that lack horizon development due to either steep slopes or parent materials that contain no permanent weatherable minerals (such as ironstone).
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Pedogenesis
Pedogenesis (from the Greek pedo-, or pedon, meaning 'soil, earth,' and genesis, meaning 'origin, birth') (also termed soil development, soil evolution, soil formation, and soil genesis) is the process of soil formation as regulated by the effects of place, environment, and history.
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Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms' activities (energy transformation).
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Placopsis
Placopsis (bullseye lichen) is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Agyriaceae.
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Plant litter
Litterfall, plant litter, leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, or duff, is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes) that have fallen to the ground.
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Polystichum munitum
Polystichum munitum, the western swordfern, is an evergreen fern native to western North America, where it is one of the most abundant ferns.
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Protist
A protist is any eukaryotic organism that has cells with nuclei and is not an animal, plant or fungus.
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Racomitrium
Racomitrium is a genus of mosses in the family Grimmiaceae established in 1818 by Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri.
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Raspberry
The raspberry is the edible fruit of a multitude of plant species in the genus Rubus of the rose family, most of which are in the subgenus Idaeobatus; the name also applies to these plants themselves.
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Reproductive success
Reproductive success is defined as the passing of genes onto the next generation in a way that they too can pass on those genes.
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Resprouter
Resprouters are plant species that are able to survive fire by the activation of dormant vegetative buds to produce regrowth.
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Rubus
Rubus is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae, with 250–700 species.
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Ruderal species
A ruderal species is a plant species that is first to colonize disturbed lands.
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Sadleria cyatheoides
Sadleria cyatheoides, commonly known as amaumau fern or amau, is a fern species in the family Blechnaceae, in the eupolypods II clade of the order Polypodiales, in the class Polypodiopsida.
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Salicornia virginica
Salicornia virginica (American glasswort, pickleweed) is a halophytic perennial dicot which grows in various zones of intertidal salt marshes and can be found in alkaline flats.
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Secondary succession
Secondary succession is one of the two types of ecological succession of plant life.
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Seral community
A seral community (or sere) is an intermediate stage found in ecological succession in an ecosystem advancing towards its climax community.
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Sexual reproduction
Sexual reproduction is a form of reproduction where two morphologically distinct types of specialized reproductive cells called gametes fuse together, involving a female's large ovum (or egg) and a male's smaller sperm.
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Spartina
Spartina, commonly known as cordgrass or cord-grass, is a genus of plants in the grass family, frequently found in coastal salt marshes.
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Spartina anglica
Spartina anglica (Common Cord-grass) is a species of cordgrass that originated in southern England in about 1870 and is endemic as a native to Britain.
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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Steady state
In systems theory, a system or a process is in a steady state if the variables (called state variables) which define the behavior of the system or the process are unchanging in time.
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Stereocaulon
Stereocaulon is a genus of lichen.
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Surtsey
Surtsey ("Surtr's island" in Icelandic) is a volcanic island located in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago off the southern coast of Iceland.
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Tagetes minuta
Tagetes minuta is a tall upright marigold plant from the genus Tagetes, with small flowers, native to the southern half of South America.
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Transpiration
Transpiration is the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers.
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Vaccinium reticulatum
Vaccinium reticulatum, known as Ōhelo ai in Hawaiian, is a species of flowering plant in the heather family, Ericaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii.
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Vallisneria americana
Vallisneria americana, commonly called wild celery, water-celery, tape grass, or eelgrass, is a plant in the family Hydrocharitaceae, the "tape-grasses".
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Vertebrate
Vertebrates comprise all species of animals within the subphylum Vertebrata (chordates with backbones).
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Wildfire
A wildfire or wildland fire is a fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or rural area.
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Wildflower
A wildflower (or wild flower) is a flower that grows in the wild, meaning it was not intentionally seeded or planted.
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Zostera
Zostera is a small genus of widely distributed seagrasses, commonly called marine eelgrass or simply eelgrass.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_species
