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Castanopsis

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Castanopsis, commonly called chinquapin or chinkapin, is a genus of evergreen trees belonging to the beech family, Fagaceae. [1]

112 relations: Acid, Acorn, Adaptation, Arid, Asia, Bagger 288, Biogeography, Bog, Borneo montane rain forests, Calcareous, Calybium and cupule, Castanopsis acuminatissima, Castanopsis borneensis, Castanopsis buruana, Castanopsis catappaefolia, Castanopsis clemensii, Castanopsis concinna, Castanopsis costata, Castanopsis curtisii, Castanopsis cuspidata, Castanopsis densinervia, Castanopsis endertii, Castanopsis evansii, Castanopsis fargesii, Castanopsis foxworthyi, Castanopsis fulva, Castanopsis hypophoenicea, Castanopsis hystrix, Castanopsis indica, Castanopsis javanica, Castanopsis kawakamii, Castanopsis lucida, Castanopsis megacarpa, Castanopsis microphylla, Castanopsis motleyana, Castanopsis nephelioides, Castanopsis oligoneura, Castanopsis oviformis, Castanopsis paucispina, Castanopsis pedunculata, Castanopsis psilophylla, Castanopsis scortechinii, Castanopsis sieboldii, Castanopsis wallichii, Catkin, China, Chrysolepis, Climax community, Corvidae, Cuticle, ..., Deer, Ecotone, Endemism, Eudicots, Europe, Evergreen, Extinction, Fagaceae, Fagales, Flower, Flowering plant, Forestry, Form classification, Fossil, Fruit, Garzweiler surface mine, Genus, Germany, Gonochorism, Habitat, Indochina, Indonesia, Japan, Keystone species, Laurel forest, Lignite, Logging, Lumber, Matsudo, Meguro, Miocene, Mushroom, North America, Northern Triangle temperate forests, Nut (fruit), Oligocene, Ornamental plant, Ovary (botany), Pacific Ocean, Palaeontology (journal), Pig, Plant, Plant community, Podzol, Rocky Mountains, Rodent, Rosids, Sclerosis (medicine), Seed, Shengzhou, Shiitake, Soil, South Central China, Species, Sphere, Swamp, Taiwan, Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests, Tit (bird), Tonne, United States, Zhejiang. Expand index (62 more) »

Acid

An acid is a molecule or ion capable of donating a hydron (proton or hydrogen ion H+), or, alternatively, capable of forming a covalent bond with an electron pair (a Lewis acid).

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Acorn

The acorn, or oak nut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae).

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Adaptation

In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.

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Arid

A region is arid when it is characterized by a severe lack of available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life.

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Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

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Bagger 288

Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine.

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Biogeography

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.

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Bog

A bog is a wetland that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses, and in a majority of cases, sphagnum moss.

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Borneo montane rain forests

The Borneo montane rain forests are an ecoregion, of cloud forest, within the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, of the island of Borneo in south-east Asia.

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Calcareous

Calcareous is an adjective meaning "mostly or partly composed of calcium carbonate", in other words, containing lime or being chalky.

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Calybium and cupule

The calybium and the cupule make up the accessory fruit of flowering plants in the family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis acuminatissima

Castanopsis acuminatissima is an evergreen tree native to Southeast Asia and New Guinea.

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Castanopsis borneensis

Castanopsis borneensis is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis buruana

Castanopsis buruana is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis catappaefolia

Castanopsis catappaefolia is a species of plant in the Fagaceae family.

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Castanopsis clemensii

Castanopsis clemensii is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis concinna

Castanopsis concinna is a species of plant in the Fagaceae family.

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Castanopsis costata

Castanopsis costata is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis curtisii

Castanopsis curtisii is a species of plant in the Fagaceae family.

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Castanopsis cuspidata

Castanopsis cuspidata (Japanese Chinquapin; Japanese tsuburajii, 円椎) is a species of Castanopsis native to southern Japan and southern Korea.

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Castanopsis densinervia

Castanopsis densinervia is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis endertii

Castanopsis endertii is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis evansii

Castanopsis evansii is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis fargesii

Castanopsis fargesii Is an evergreen tree that grows 10–30 m tall.

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Castanopsis foxworthyi

Castanopsis foxworthyi is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis fulva

Castanopsis fulva is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis hypophoenicea

Castanopsis hypophoenicea is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis hystrix

Castanopsis hystrix is a species of evergreen broadleaf tree, which grows up to 30 meters in height.

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Castanopsis indica

Castanopsis indica is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis javanica

Castanopsis javanica, the Javan chestnut-oak, is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis kawakamii

Castanopsis kawakamii is a species of plant in the Fagaceae family.

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Castanopsis lucida

Castanopsis lucida is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis megacarpa

Castanopsis megacarpa is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis microphylla

Castanopsis microphylla is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis motleyana

Castanopsis motleyana is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis nephelioides

Castanopsis nephelioides is a species of plant in the Fagaceae family.

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Castanopsis oligoneura

Castanopsis oligoneura is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis oviformis

Castanopsis oviformis is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis paucispina

Castanopsis paucispina is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis pedunculata

Castanopsis pedunculata is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis psilophylla

Castanopsis psilophylla is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Castanopsis scortechinii

Castanopsis scortechinii is a species of plant in the Fagaceae family.

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Castanopsis sieboldii

Castanopsis sieboldii, also known as the Itajii Chinkapin or Itajii, is a species of evergreen tree that lives in subtropical eastern Asia. This is a climax species that is commonly found in the Japanese temperate rainforest. Specimens are also present within the forest area of the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Castanopsis sieboldii was once thought to be a subspecies of the similar Castanopsis cuspidata. Plants and animals associated with this tree include.

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Castanopsis wallichii

Castanopsis wallichii is a species of plant in the Fagaceae family.

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Catkin

A catkin or ament is a slim, cylindrical flower cluster (a spike), with inconspicuous or no petals, usually wind-pollinated (anemophilous) but sometimes insect-pollinated (as in Salix).

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chrysolepis

Chrysolepis is a small genus in the beech family Fagaceae, endemic to the western United States.

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Climax community

In ecology, climax community, or climatic climax community, is a historic term for a biological community of plants, animals, and fungi which, through the process of ecological succession in the development of vegetation in an area over time, have reached a steady state.

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Corvidae

Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers.

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Cuticle

A cuticle, or cuticula, is any of a variety of tough but flexible, non-mineral outer coverings of an organism, or parts of an organism, that provide protection.

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Deer

Deer (singular and plural) are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae.

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Ecotone

An ecotone is a transition area between two biomes.

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Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Eudicots

The eudicots, Eudicotidae or eudicotyledons are a clade of flowering plants that had been called tricolpates or non-magnoliid dicots by previous authors.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year, always green.

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Extinction

In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.

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Fagaceae

Fagaceae is a family of flowering plants that includes beeches and oaks, and comprises eight genera with about 927 species.

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Fagales

The Fagales are an order of flowering plants, including some of the best-known trees.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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Forestry

Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, using, conserving, and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human and environment benefits.

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Form classification

Form classification is the classification of organisms based on their morphology, which does not necessarily reflect their biological relationships.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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Garzweiler surface mine

The Tagebau Garzweiler is a large surface mine (Tagebau) in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gonochorism

In biology, gonochorism (Greek offspring + disperse) or unisexualism or gonochory describes the state of having just one of at least two distinct sexes in any one individual organism.

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Habitat

In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.

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Indochina

Indochina, originally Indo-China, is a geographical term originating in the early nineteenth century and referring to the continental portion of the region now known as Southeast Asia.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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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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Laurel forest

Laurel forest, also called laurisilva or laurissilva, is a type of subtropical forest found in areas with high humidity and relatively stable, mild temperatures.

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Lignite

Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat.

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Logging

Logging is the cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars.

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Lumber

Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.

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Matsudo

is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

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Meguro

is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Mushroom

A mushroom, or toadstool, is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Northern Triangle temperate forests

The Northern Triangle temperate forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion of thick forest covering the mountains of northern Myanmar.

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Nut (fruit)

A nut is a fruit composed of an inedible hard shell and a seed, which is generally edible.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as houseplants, for cut flowers and specimen display.

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Ovary (botany)

In the flowering plants, an ovary is a part of the female reproductive organ of the flower or gynoecium.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Palaeontology (journal)

Palaeontology is one of the two scientific journals of the Palaeontological Association (the other being Papers in Palaeontology).

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Pig

A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the even-toed ungulate family Suidae.

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Plant community

A plant community (sometimes "phytocoenosis" or "phytocenosis") is a collection or association of plant species within a designated geographical unit, which forms a relatively uniform patch, distinguishable from neighboring patches of different vegetation types.

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Podzol

In soil science, Podzols (known as Spodosols in China and the United States of America and Podosols in Australia) are the typical soils of coniferous, or boreal forests.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Rodent

Rodents (from Latin rodere, "to gnaw") are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

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Rosids

The rosids are members of a large clade (monophyletic group) of flowering plants, containing about 70,000 species, more than a quarter of all angiosperms.

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Sclerosis (medicine)

In medicine, sclerosis (also spelled sclerosus in the names of a few disorders; from Greek σκληρός "hard") is the stiffening of a structure, usually caused by a replacement of the normal organ-specific tissue with connective tissue.

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Seed

A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.

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Shengzhou

Shengzhou, formerly Shengxian or Sheng County, is a county-level city in central Zhejiang, south of the Hangzhou Bay, and is the south-eastern part of the prefecture-level city of Shaoxing.

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Shiitake

The shiitake (Lentinula edodes) is an edible mushroom native to East Asia, which is cultivated and consumed in many Asian countries.

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Soil

Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.

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South Central China

South Central China is a region of the People's Republic of China defined by governmental bureaus that includes the province of Guangdong, Hainan, Henan, Hubei, and Hunan, and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, however the two provincial-level special administrative regions (SAR) are also often included under South Central China: Hong Kong and Macau.

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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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Sphere

A sphere (from Greek σφαῖρα — sphaira, "globe, ball") is a perfectly round geometrical object in three-dimensional space that is the surface of a completely round ball (viz., analogous to the circular objects in two dimensions, where a "circle" circumscribes its "disk").

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Swamp

A swamp is a wetland that is forested.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests

The Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests is an ecoregion that covers most of the island of Taiwan, with the exception of the southern tip of the island, which constitutes the South Taiwan monsoon rain forests ecoregion.

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Tit (bird)

The tits, chickadees, and titmice constitute the Paridae, a large family of small passerine birds which occur mainly in the Northern Hemisphere and Africa.

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Tonne

The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Zhejiang

, formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castanopsis

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