(1) In addition to reviewing the faunal evidence, the highly relevant environmental and archaeological backgrounds are summarized.
(2) Some limited terrestrial faunal exchanges that occur during the Messinian between southwestern Europe and northwestern Africa do not deeply affect the general faunal dynamics.
(3) These differences appear in the physical, chemical and faunal aspects of the rivers, and mostly during periods of drought.
(4) The faunal composition of mosquitoes caught by species was (in descending order) Culex quinquefasciatus, Cx.
(5) The implications are that the parasite species distributions and character of parasite faunas will vary according to the distribution of the fishes and local faunal assemblages.
(6) Faunal impacts in the pond were generally of a smaller magnitude than were predicted by bioassay results.
(7) vulgaris Filippova and to certain other species of the eastern area of the Palearctic Faunal Region; it differs distinctly from A.
(8) Previously, this tick has not been reported from the Ethiopian Faunal Region (Kenya).
(9) Major faunal differences between the two environments reflected the extensive saline marsh and mudflat estuarine habitats at Batemans Bay and the predominantly freshwater stream, marsh, and lake habitats of Termeil State Forest.
(10) Biostratigraphic studies suggest a 13.6-15.2 Ma for the Friasian faunal zone.
(11) The fossil remains of a juvenile Australopithecus africanus specimen from Sterkfontein Member 4 temporally confined on faunal grounds to 2.5-3.0 million years before the present (Myr B.P.)
(12) Surveys of demersal fishes and macrofaunal invertebrates in the North Atlantic indicate 1) there is little evidence of coherence and continuity of faunal zones around the ocean basin and 2) that the community concept should be abandoned because faunal assemblages only persist on a local scale.
(13) Furthermore, this allowed for the comparison of the variations in ontogenesis (augmentation or reduction in the development), in relation to abiotic (detrital supply and upwelling processes) and biotic ecological factors (faunal density and interspecific competition).
(14) These isotopic data are consistent with pathological, faunal, and artifactual evidence of increased marine resource exploitation during the late prehistoric period.
(15) Both these latter formations have yielded faunal and floral assemblages that are very similar to those found at Nehden.
(16) Yet he was engaged also in faunal studies and became a reknown expert in entomology.
(17) Recent research shows that lowland forests of the Amazon Basin differ in numerous ways including features of climate and soils, faunal composition and forest structure, composition and phenology.
(18) Dermacentor marginatus (Sulzer 1776), a distinctive tick of the Palearctic faunal region is redescribed from 941 specimens collected throughout its geographical range.
(19) On the basis of faunal analysis of 1.2 mln fleas collected from about 300,000 individuals belonging to 30 species of small mammals were obtained average indices of abundance and similarity between faunas of ectoparasites of different animals in a number of autonomous plague nidi of the Aral sea area.
Region
Definition:
(n.) One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
(n.) Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.
(n.) The upper air; the sky; the heavens.
(n.) The inhabitants of a district.
(n.) Place; rank; station.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
(3) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(4) Such an increase in antibody binding occurred simultaneously with an increase in the fluidity of surface lipid regions, as monitored by fluorescence depolarization of 1-(trimethylammoniophenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene.
(5) Among the migrants from the regions with contrasting climatic conditions.
(6) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
(7) The invaginations were classified into four easily recognized types: regular, chunky, filigree, and ridge (present only in axon hillock regions).
(8) Twelve families with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) were studied by linkage analysis using 10 polymorphic marker loci from the X-chromosome pericentromeric region.
(9) Reiteration VII (within protein coding regions of genes US10 and US11) and reiteration IV (within introns of genes US1 and US12) were stable between the isolates (group 1).
(10) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
(11) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
(12) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(13) Three overlapping clones, spanning a total of 19 kb of the human SC gene, including 3 kb of the 5' flanking region, were characterized.
(14) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
(15) Therefore, neither of these two regions of the Tat protein appear to be discrete activation domains.
(16) Chromatographic maps of DNA adducts demonstrated unique patterns of DNA adducts for each of the regions.
(17) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
(18) It is the only fully-fledged casino to open in the region, outside Lebanon.
(19) The regional distribution of beta-adrenoceptor subtypes was found to be similar to that seen in the rat brain.
(20) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.