rare species
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrareandspecies
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rare
adjective
uk/reər/us/rer/
not common or frequent; ...
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species
noun[C]
uk/ˈspiː.ʃiːz/us/ˈspiː.ʃiːz/
a set of animals or plants in which the members have similar characteristics to each other and can breed with ...
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Rarespeciesin communities of tropical insect herbivores: pondering the mystery of singletons.
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Endangered orrarespecies, such as the civet or the serval were identified and released.
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Rarespeciesalso utilized decay stages as expected from availability of substrates.
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The rest of the slide was then scanned forrarespeciesand well-preserved specimens for microphotography.
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Methodological problems in the analysis of tropical insect communities, dominated byrarespecies, are discussed.
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We quantify community- and population-level phenology and compare phenological cycles of emergent and mid-storey species, and common andrarespecies.
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Besides demographic stochasticity t he tendency ofrarespeciesto disperse may affect local rates of extinction in isolated habitats.
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If we ignore therarespeciescaught less than five times, the rank order of diversity for the different canopy levels changes.
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Any such bias cannot be quantified, since the host specificity estimates forrarespeciesare not available.
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Locallyrarespecies(with only one individual in a plot) occurred mostly in well-drained uplands.
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Rarespeciesin the dry forest could be rare partly because they need large pieces of wood.
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In contrast, there was no evidence for escape in space as common species were less likely to suffer high pathogen attack thanrarespecies.
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Log-transformed percentage data of 75 pollen taxa were used for the analysis andrarespecieswere down-weighted.
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Of these, 1015 individuals of 30 species were used in the analysis afterrarespecies(< 4 individuals) were dropped.
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Ifrarespecies(<1 individual ha-1) are excluded, the two sites share 72% of the species.
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Rarespecieswere those with four or fewer individuals in the transects.
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However, while this reasoning explains the absence of an advantage ofrarespecies, it is unclear why rarer species should do worse.
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Thus, density-dependent processes thought to favourrarespeciesmay also contribute to the observed higher recruitment efficiency of understorey species.
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No such trend was present for all species combined or just therarespeciescombined.
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