terrestrial environment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofterrestrialandenvironment
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terrestrial
adjective
uk/təˈres.tri.əl/us/təˈres.tri.əl/
formal
relating to ...
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environment
noun
uk/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/us/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/
the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and ...
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(Definition ofterrestrialandenvironmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The problem here is that in theterrestrialenvironmentthese external forces were never absent.
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The broad focus of these science programs is toward improved understanding of the mechanisms that couple solar processes with those of theterrestrialenvironment.
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A large, difficult-to-read table summarizes the key facies in theterrestrialenvironment.
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Evolutionary responses to perturbations in a naturalterrestrialenvironmentcan, in principle, lead to unpredictable evolutionary pathways.
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Many groups of green algae live in theterrestrialenvironment, but only one of these - the land plants - has radiated into a wide range of habitats.
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Notwithstanding the extinction of large predators (dinosaurs), it would have been possible to forecast, to a certain extent, an evolutionary response to such significant perturbation of theterrestrialenvironment.
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This model is in accord with the mixed marine/terrestrial palynomorph assemblage and fissure 1 sediment deposition, and therefore would have taken place in a marginal marine/terrestrialenvironment.
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The rhinoceros has a ganglion cell density map that, in light of what is known to date, is unique in aterrestrialenvironmentfor mammals due to its dual specialization.
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We speculate that the cercarial elongated papilla represents a sensory cilium covered with tegument to protect it from the potentially damaging effects of theirterrestrialenvironment.
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This provides a firm scientific base for studies of the impact of global climate change on theterrestrialenvironment.
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That has led to drastic effects on man and on histerrestrialenvironment.
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One reason is that we do not yet possess the same depth of knowledge about marine ecosystems as we have about theterrestrialenvironment.
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It specifies the environmental surveillance programme to be carried out by nuclear operators and carries out its own programme of monitoring radioactivity in theterrestrialenvironment.
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The total sum involved in the current financial year on the research programme into the effects of radiation on the atmospheric andterrestrialenvironmentis estimated to be £650,000.
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Discontinuous gas exchange cycles have long been thought to be an adaptation to conserve water when living in aterrestrialenvironment(the hygric hypothesis).
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Air-breathing arthropods evolved and invaded the land where they provided food for the carnivorous amphibians that began to adapt to theterrestrialenvironment.
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Many plants have adapted to iodine-deficientterrestrialenvironmentby removing iodine from their metabolism, in fact iodine is essential only for animal cells.
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They developed behaviours suitable for reproduction in aterrestrialenvironment.
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