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86 relations: Aylmer, Quebec, Öland, Balsam Lake (Ontario), Baltic Klint, Biodiversity action plan, Bobolink, Brown thrasher, Bruce Peninsula, Bryophyte, Burnt Lands alvar, Butterfly, Calcareous grassland, County Clare, Cumbria, Cypripedium arietinum, Drummond Township, Michigan, Eastern meadowlark, Eastern towhee, Ecosystem, Eesti Päevaleht, England, Estonia, Falbygden, Forb, Gotland, Government of Estonia, Grassland, Harilaid (peninsula), Hectare, Hiiumaa, Ireland, Iris lacustris, Kelleys Island, Ohio, Kinnekulle, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Landform, Lichen, Limestone, Limestone pavement, Lobelia kalmii, Loggerhead shrike, Loopealse, Malham Cove, Manitoba, Manitoulin Island, Marblehead, Ohio, Michigan, ..., Micranthes virginiensis, Moss, Natura 2000, North America, Ohio, Ontario, Pakri Islands, Paldiski, Pelee, Ontario, Pellaea atropurpurea, Plain, Postimees, Prairie, Quebec, Rapla County, Rare species, Red Banks, Brown County, Wisconsin, Saaremaa, Sandstone, Scandinavia, Sillamäe, Snail, Species, Stora Alvaret, Sweden, Tallinn, Tetraneuris acaulis, The Burren, UNESCO, Upland sandpiper, Vardi Nature Reserve, Vascular plant, Västergötland, West Estonian archipelago, World Heritage site, Yorkshire. Expand index (36 more) »
Aylmer, Quebec
Aylmer is a former city in Quebec, Canada.
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Öland
Öland (known in Latin as Oelandia, and sometimes written Øland in other Scandinavian languages, and Oland internationally) is the second largest Swedish island and the smallest of the traditional provinces of Sweden.
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Balsam Lake (Ontario)
Balsam Lake is a lake located in the Kawartha Lakes region of south central Ontario, Canada.
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Baltic Klint
The Baltic Klint (Clint, Glint; Balti klint, Балтийско-Ладожский уступ, Глинт) is an erosional limestone escarpment on several islands of the Baltic Sea, in Estonia, in Leningrad Oblast of Russia and in the islands of Gotland and Öland of Sweden.
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Biodiversity action plan
A biodiversity action plan (BAP) is an internationally recognized program addressing threatened species and habitats and is designed to protect and restore biological systems.
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Bobolink
The bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) is a small New World blackbird and the only member of the genus Dolichonyx.
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Brown thrasher
The brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) is a bird in the family Mimidae, which also includes the New World catbirds and mockingbirds.
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Bruce Peninsula
The Bruce Peninsula is a peninsula in Ontario, Canada, that lies between Georgian Bay and the main basin of Lake Huron.
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Bryophyte
Bryophytes are an informal group consisting of three divisions of non-vascular land plants (embryophytes): the liverworts, hornworts and mosses.
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Burnt Lands alvar
The Burnt Lands is an alvar between Almonte and Ottawa near Upper Huntley, Ontario, Canada.
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Butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths.
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Calcareous grassland
Calcareous grassland (or alkaline grassland) is an ecosystem associated with thin basic soil, such as that on chalk and limestone downland.
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County Clare
County Clare (Contae an Chláir) is a county in Ireland, in the Mid-West Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the West by the Atlantic Ocean.
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Cumbria
Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.
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Cypripedium arietinum
Cypripedium arietinum, the ram's head lady's slipper, is a rare orchid that grows in lightly shaded areas with calcareous soils.
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Drummond Township, Michigan
Drummond Island Township is a civil township of Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Eastern meadowlark
The eastern meadowlark (Sturnella magna) is a medium-sized icterid bird, very similar in appearance to the western meadowlark.
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Eastern towhee
The eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) is a large New World sparrow.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.
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Eesti Päevaleht
Eesti Päevaleht ("Estonia Daily") is a major daily Estonian newspaper, from the same publishers as the weekly Eesti Ekspress.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Estonia
Estonia (Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik), is a sovereign state in Northern Europe.
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Falbygden
Falbygden is a geographical area, centered at the town of Falköping in Västergötland, in southern Sweden, and covered mostly by farmland.
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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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Gotland
Gotland (older spellings include Gottland or Gothland), Gutland in the local dialect, is a province, county, municipality, and diocese of Sweden.
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Government of Estonia
The Government of the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Vabariigi Valitsus) is the cabinet of Estonia.
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Grassland
Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae); however, sedge (Cyperaceae) and rush (Juncaceae) families can also be found along with variable proportions of legumes, like clover, and other herbs.
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Harilaid (peninsula)
The Harilaid Peninsula is a peninsula on the northwest coast of the island of Saaremaa in Estonia.
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Hectare
The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100 meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land.
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Hiiumaa
Hiiumaa (German & Dagö; Dagø; Hiidenmaa) is the second largest island (989 km²) in Estonia.
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Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.
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Iris lacustris
Iris lacustris (also known as dwarf lake iris), is a species in the genus Iris, subgenus Limniris and in the Lophiris section (crested irises).
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Kelleys Island, Ohio
Kelleys Island is both a village in Erie County, Ohio, United States, and the island which it fully occupies in Lake Erie.
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Kinnekulle
Kinnekulle is a flat-topped mountain in the county of Västergötland, Sweden, on the eastern shore of lake Vänern.
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Lake Erie
Lake Erie is the fourth-largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the eleventh-largest globally if measured in terms of surface area.
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Lake Huron
Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.
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Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States.
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Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.
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Landform
A landform is a natural feature of the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body.
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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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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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Limestone pavement
A limestone pavement is a natural karst landform consisting of a flat, incised surface of exposed limestone that resembles an artificial pavement.
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Lobelia kalmii
Lobelia kalmii is a species of flowering plant with a distribution primarily across Canada and the northern United States in temperate and boreal regions.
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Loggerhead shrike
The loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) is a passerine bird in the family Laniidae.
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Loopealse
Loopealse (Estonian for "Alvar") is a subdistrict (asum) in the district of Lasnamäe, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.
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Malham Cove
Malham Cove is a limestone formation north of the village of Malham, North Yorkshire, England.
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Manitoba
Manitoba is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada.
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Manitoulin Island
Manitoulin Island is a Canadian lake island in Lake Huron, in the province of Ontario.
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Marblehead, Ohio
Marblehead is a village in Ottawa County, Ohio, United States.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.
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Micranthes virginiensis
Micranthes virginiensis, the early saxifrage, or Virginia saxifrage, is a wildflower native to eastern and central North America.
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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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Natura 2000
Natura 2000 is a network of nature protection areas in the territory of the European Union.
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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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Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
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Ontario
Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.
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Pakri Islands
Pakri Islands (Pakri saared, Rågöarna) are two Estonian islands in the Finnish Gulf: Suur-Pakri and Väike-Pakri (Stora Rågö and Lilla Rågö).
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Paldiski
Paldiski is a town and Baltic Sea port situated on the Pakri peninsula of north-western Estonia.
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Pelee, Ontario
Pelee Island, Ontario, Canada, is an island in the western half of Lake Erie.
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Pellaea atropurpurea
Pellaea atropurpurea, commonly known as purple-stem cliffbrake or just purple cliffbrake, is a fern native to North and Central America.
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Plain
In geography, a plain is a flat, sweeping landmass that generally does not change much in elevation.
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Postimees
Postimees (The Postman) is an Estonian daily newspaper established on January 1, 1857, by Johann Voldemar Jannsen.
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Prairie
Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.
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Quebec
Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.
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Rapla County
Rapla County (Rapla maakond), or Raplamaa, is one of 15 counties of Estonia.
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Rare species
A rare species is a group of organisms that are very uncommon, scarce, or infrequently encountered.
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Red Banks, Brown County, Wisconsin
Red Banks is an unincorporated community located in the town of Scott, Brown County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Saaremaa
Saaremaa (Danish: Øsel; English (esp. traditionally): Osel; Finnish: Saarenmaa; Swedish & German: Ösel) is the largest island in Estonia, measuring.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.
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Sillamäe
Sillamäe (Силламяэ), known also in Germanized version as Sillamäggi or Sillamägi (Estonian for "Bridge Hill"), is a town in Ida-Viru County in the northern part of Estonia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland.
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Snail
Snail is a common name loosely applied to shelled gastropods.
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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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Stora Alvaret
Stora Alvaret (The Great Alvar) is an alvar, a barren limestone terrace, in the southern half of the island of Öland, Sweden.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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Tallinn
Tallinn (or,; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Estonia.
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Tetraneuris acaulis
Tetraneuris acaulis is a North American species of flowering plants in the sunflower family.
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The Burren
The Burren is a region of environmental interest primarily located in northwestern County Clare, Ireland, dominated by glaciated karst (or sometimes glaciokarst Burren National Park - Geology - "The Burren is one of the finest examples of a Glacio-Karst landscape in the world. At least two glacial advances are known in the Burren area.") landscape.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.
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Upland sandpiper
The upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) is a large sandpiper, closely related to the curlews.
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Vardi Nature Reserve
Vardi Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in Rapla County in central Estonia.
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Vascular plant
Vascular plants (from Latin vasculum: duct), also known as tracheophytes (from the equivalent Greek term trachea) and also higher plants, form a large group of plants (c. 308,312 accepted known species) that are defined as those land plants that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant.
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Västergötland
Västergötland, also known as West Gothland or the Latinized version Westrogothia in older literature, is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden (landskap in Swedish), situated in the southwest of Sweden.
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West Estonian archipelago
West Estonian archipelago (Lääne-Eesti saarestik, also Moonsund archipelago) is a group of Estonian islands, around Väinameri, located in the Baltic Sea.
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World Heritage site
A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.
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Yorkshire
Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar
