What's the difference between epiphytic and terrestrial?
Epiphytic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Epiphytical
Example Sentences:
(1) A tenacious Anabaena epiphyte was also discovered inhabiting the surfaces of root nodules.
(2) The following propositions, derived from the theory of phased coevolution of components of the module consisting of the epiphytic bacteria, algae, snails and macrophytes, are evaluated on the basis of the present results and others including those obtained in this laboratory.
(3) Several pathogenic and epiphytic strains of P. syringae, but not E. coli, showed sequence homology to pCUV8 under normal stringency.
(4) Epiphytic populations of Pseudomonas syringae and Erwinia herbicola are important sources of ice nuclei that incite frost damage in agricultural crop plants.
(5) Epiphytic P. syringae populations undergoing rapid size changes due to growth and death under fluctuating environmental conditions in the field should be accurately enumerated by the plate count method.
(6) Five per cent suspensions of freshly harvested seaweeds were used as an inoculum to develop a selective medium for epiphytic yeasts.
(7) The cenosis is formed from individual species of the soil microbial complex and from some representatives of the epiphytic microbial cenosis which change here becoming saprophytes instead of biotrophs.
(8) The rate of acetylene reduction by the epiphytic system increased with the number of successive exposures to acetylene, a phenomenon of some significance in any calculations designed to measure the amount of nitrogen fixed in certain ecosystems.
(9) Epiphytic yeast cells dominated on the plant surface.
(10) Contributions to PCP loss were determined for rock surface (epilithic), macrophyte surface (epiphytic), sedimentary, and water column communities by measuring rates of PCP disappearance in stream water, containing ambient concentrations of PCP, in contact with representative compartmental samples.
(11) These sites included nonpolluted rivers and water from bromeliads (epiphytes) which were 30 ft (ca.
(12) A preliminary survey indicated that yeasts were epiphytic on all nine species of seaweeds and that maximal populations occurred on the chlorophytes and rhodophytes especially during the periods of warmer water.
(13) The degree of adaptation to drought presented by epiphytic species is more complicated than that shown by terrestrial species.
(14) Genetic and molecular approaches are being initiated to investigate the signaling that is likely to underlie interactions such as those between mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots and between epiphytic bacteria and plant leaf surfaces.
(15) Among 11 epiphytic microorganisms one species each of Pseudomonas, Erwinia, and Aspergillus were antagonistic to Xanthomonas translucens subsp.
(16) However, neither cutting number nor maturity affected the epiphytic microflora on standing alfalfa, and wilting following mowing had little effect on most populations.
(17) Species of epiphytic or planktonic algae might be better sources of SPC with molluscicidal effects than aquatic macrophytes.
(18) The epiphytic populations of Pseudomonas syringae were monitored on 23 barley entries planted in the field in four replications during the summer of 1986, and on six selected entries during the summer of 1987, from the second-leaf stage until senescence.
(19) Lipid-soluble toxins were isolated from a Caribbean strain of the epiphytic dinoflagellate Prorocentrum concavum Fukuyo.
(20) The relation between growth rate and the rate of accumulation of radioactive cells permitted derivation of a constant for use in calculating growth rate in natural material and in two-membered cultures of L. mucor growing epiphytically on pure cultures of marine algae.
Terrestrial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals.
(a.) Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary; mundane.
(a.) Consisting of land, in distinction from water; belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees, water, or the like; as, terrestrial serpents.
(a.) Adapted for the observation of objects on land and on the earth; as, a terrestrial telescope, in distinction from an astronomical telescope.
(n.) An inhabitant of the earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
(2) An explanation of this in terms of terrestrial snail (intermediate host) populations and a suggestion for the possible use of these data in developing a predictive model for forecasting lungworm levels for use in in bighorn sheep management are given.
(3) This suggests that the chronotropic effect of PTH is ubiquitous among the terrestrial vertebrates.
(4) Lumbricus terrestris L. The composition and purity of the fractions have been assessed using SDS-protein electrophoresis, Western immunoblots, and electron microscopy.
(5) The model should be generally applicable to other terrestrial vertebrates.
(6) The circadian locomotor rhythm of the terrestrial slug, Limax maximus, was measured with activity wheels during exposure to both humid and drying conditions.
(7) In terrestrial insects such as locusts and cockroaches ventilatory movements are governed by a dominant oscillator in the metathoracic or anterior abdominal ganglion.
(8) The lux genes required for expression of luminescence have been cloned from a terrestrial bacterium, Xenorhabdus luminescens, and the nucleotide sequences of the luxA and luxB genes coding for the alpha and beta subunits of luciferase determined.
(9) According to the difference in pesticide content in fish tissues in spring and autumn we can localize the source of COP contamination of water fauna and terrestrial ecosystems of different protected areas possessing water bodies.
(10) The oral communications and posters were divided into five subsections, covering systematics at supraspecific, specific and subspecific levels, evolution, and life cycles of parasites with hosts in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.
(11) The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene for chain c of hemoglobin of the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris has been determined.
(12) Strains antigenically related to the same serotypes were frequently isolated from both terrestrial ecosystems and adjacent freshwater.
(13) Studies have been made on thermal regulation in the nests of families of the honey bee Apis mellifera, wasp Dolihovespula silvestris and bumblebees Bombus terrestris, B. agrorum and B. lapidaris during their maximum development.
(14) It is the first known example of electroreception in a terrestrial animal.
(15) The role being discussed would put him in charge of the Fox Networks Group, which includes the Fox terrestrial TV network as well as cable channels such as FX and National Geographic, says a report in the Financial Times.
(16) Comparison of these results with published findings indicates that the parcellation of the peristriate cortex into a variety of different areas, the pattern formed by these areas around area 17, and their reciprocal connections with area 17 follow a common plan in all hitherto studied terrestrial Old World and New World rodents.
(17) Of 23 fermentable compounds tested, the terrestrial strains attacked only glucose and mannose.
(18) The Siluro-Devonian "explosive" colonization of land, and indeed the very evolution of plants, was possible only through such mutualistic partnerships-partnerships that were equipped to cope with the problems of desiccation and starvation associated with terrestrial existence.
(19) It is now recognized that plasmids are widely distributed in bacterial populations in terrestrial and aquatic environments.
(20) Titanic now comes in behind 1977's Star Wars, 1965's The Sound of Music, 1982's ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, and even the 1956 Charlton Heston biblical epic The Ten Commandments.