Word: habitat
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...same with populations and species. Species are out there competing with others in a real world of limited resources. They cannot survive as disembodied attributes. What's more, the ecologies of which they form a part have an alarming tendency to change abruptly. If your habitat is covered by an ice sheet, it's pretty irrelevant how well you are adapted to the meadows and forests now buried beneath...
...discoverer of species, Van Roosmalen has the right to choose their scientific name. Instead he may auction off this privilege to the highest bidder and use the proceeds to protect the species in their original Brazilian habitat. Fame means less to him than saving a pure, emerald swath of the Amazon. Otherwise, he warns, "the rain forest will be destroyed before we even know what plants and animals are out there...
...While most of this year's community service activities will focus on the presidential campaign, the club has had a long history of active community involvement, participating in Habitat for Humanity projects, paying visits to senior citizens living in a nearby nursing home, holding winter clothing drives, and volunteering for overnight shifts at the University Lutheran Church Homeless Shelter...
...with a pig's brain that knows only the sty, and a pig's squeal that cries only when he is hurt, he sometimes opens his pig's mouth, tusked and ugly, and lets out the voice of God, railing at the whitewash that covers the manure about his habitat." Small attack big, big attack small. What drives this pointless sniping...
...ALAOTRA BAMBOO LEMUR HOME Madagascar POPULATION fewer than 5,000 --Irrigation projects reduce water levels in its habitat on the shores of Madagascar's biggest lake, and local people cut the papyrus and reeds on which it feeds