Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet SPECIES

Definition av SPECIES

1. art; species; en nivå inom biologisk taxonomi

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• Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities.
• Aardvarks are the only living species of the order Tubulidentata, although other prehistoric species and genera of Tubulidentata are known.
• The aardwolf (Proteles cristatus) is an insectivorous hyaenid species, native to East and Southern Africa.
• Globally, 6% of all plant species and 15% of herbaceous plants (excluding trees and shrubs) are annuals.
• The order is cosmopolitan (plants found throughout most of the world including desert and frigid zones), and includes mostly herbaceous species, although a small number of trees (such as the Lobelia deckenii, the giant lobelia, and Dendrosenecio, giant groundsels) and shrubs are also present.
• Three to five extant and one extinct species are currently recognized, including one of the largest snakes in the world, E.
• The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchidaceae, and which is the larger family is unclear as the quantity of extant species in each family is unknown.
• It is the 16th-largest family of flowering plants, with more than 3,800 species in about 446 genera, including such well-known, and economically important plants as ajwain, angelica, anise, asafoetida, caraway, carrot, celery, chervil, coriander, cumin, dill, fennel, lovage, cow parsley, parsley, parsnip and sea holly, as well as silphium, a plant whose exact identity is unclear and may be extinct.
• The most comprehensive treatment of the family considers 56 species valid, with 18 additional subspecies.
• Scientists disagree on the content of the genus and some recognize Gorgosaurus libratus as a second species.
• The genus includes about 35 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, a few reaching a large size, distributed throughout the north temperate zone with a few species extending into Central America, as well as the northern and southern Andes.
• It was described by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1773 based on the African species Acacia nilotica.
• It spurred Darwin to set aside the "big species book" he was drafting and quickly write an abstract of it, which was published in 1859 as On the Origin of Species.
• Amaranthus is a cosmopolitan group of more than 50 species which make up the genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants collectively known as amaranths.
• The number of living species is disputed, with some authorities accepting up to ten species, while others accept six or fewer.
• In evolutionary biology, adaptive radiation is a process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms, particularly when a change in the environment makes new resources available, alters biotic interactions or opens new environmental niches.
• 21 extant species of armadillo have been described, some of which are distinguished by the number of bands on their armor.
• The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small species of fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.
• The species had an expansive range spanning from Western Europe and North Africa to the Indian subcontinent and East Asia.
• Anoa, also known as dwarf buffalo and sapiutan, are two species of the genus Bubalus, placed within the subgenus Anoa and endemic to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia: the mountain anoa (Bubalus quarlesi) and the lowland anoa (Bubalus depressicornis).

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