However, the concepts of those keystone texts can not be equated with Taoism as a whole.

Mistletoe was often considered a pest that kills trees and devalues natural habitats, but was recently recognized as an ecological keystone species, an organism that has a disproportionately pervasive influence over its community.

The Leconfield Head, the keystone of the Greek antiquities at Petworth was probably bought from Gavin Hamilton in Rome in 1755.

The keystone of the tunnel's archway was carved with the head of a crowned King.

The site was the keystone of a defensive system constructed in the early period of Haitian independence to protect the young state from French attempts to reclaim it as a colony.

The Cluniac order was a branch of the Benedictines and fell under the rule of the great abbey at Cluny in Burgundy ; the Benedictine order was a keystone to the stability that European society achieved in the 11th century, and partly owing to the stricter adherence to a reformed Benedictine rule, Cluny became the acknowledged leader of western monasticism from the later 10th century.

His keystone accomplishment was the establishment of the Save the Everglades program, which as now been joined by the federal government in a joint effort.

The American intent was the establishment of Nam Bac as the keystone of an " iron arc " of defensive positions across northern Laos.

Similarly, an ecosystem may experience a dramatic shift if a keystone species is removed, even though that species was a small part of the ecosystem by measures of biomass or productivity.

The keystone species concept was coined, in 1969, by the zoologist Robert T. Paine, professor emeritus of the University of Washington, to explain the relationship between Pisaster ochraceus, a species of starfish, and Mytilus californianus, a species of mussel.

Frazer seized upon the notion of a substitute king and made him the keystone of his theory of a universal, pan-European, and indeed worldwide fertility myth, in which a consort for the Goddess was annually replaced.

Development in the early days was fast and furious and Fire was touted by Apple as one of the keystone applications on Mac OS X v10. 0.

The Pennsylvania Railroad's corporate symbol was the keystone, which is Pennsylvania's state symbol, with the letters PRR intertwined inside.

The keystone project was the " TRansportation EXpansion " dubbed T-REX.

The keystone above the door bearing the date 1833 is thought to have been carved by the stonemason William Parrott who cut the Sydney sandstone in situ, but construction of the building was not actually completed until mid-1836.

He laid the keystone on which the prestigious University of Delaware was built.

Schaffer Library opened in 1961, at which time the College library was moved from the Nott Memorial into expanded quarters as the keystone of the arched Ramée colonnade at the east end of the campus.

The 800 was a keystone of the British government's car fleet throughout its life, following a tradition of using British-made Rover and Jaguar models.

He was the first Latino to have headlined the keystone morning radio slot on an English-language station in LA — the nation ’ s top radio market.

The Ahl-i-batin are credited with discovering it, and used it as the architectural keystone for the Web of Faith, a network through which information was transmitted at enormous speed during a period spanning the eighth century to the thirteenth century.

The keystone of the structure created by the Judicature Acts was a strong court of appeal.

The present Hirado Castle was constructed in 1704 by order of the 4th daimyō of Hirado domain, Matsuura Takashi with the assistance of the Tokugawa shogunate to be the keystone in seaward defenses of Japan in the East China Sea region, now that the country had implemented a policy of national seclusion against western traders and missionaries.

Coextinction is especially common when a keystone species goes extinct.

It is found on the curved side of the cask, arranged so that when the cask is on its side and the keystone is at the lowest part of the rim, the shive will be the highest point of the cask.

He was not considered by most to be a banjo virtuoso and very seldom took a solo, but his steady and swinging banjo was the keystone of any rhythm section of which he was a part.

The company's world headquarters are in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the company has been located since 1890, and the company's " keystone " logo is based on that of Pennsylvania, the " keystone state ".

The black-footed ferret is entirely dependent on another keystone species, the prairie dog.

Gnawed stumps and beaver sign are now seen on Orcas and other islands, and recolonization by this keystone species is likely to lead to increased abundance and diversity of birds, amphibians, reptiles and plants.

Such predators are known as keystone species and may have a profound influence on the balance of organisms in a particular ecosystem.

This bypasses a single-arched bridge built in the late 1700s, which has a female head carved on the keystone of the western face, presumed to be the Kate after whom the bridge is named.

Between the spandrels is the keystone, on which there stands a female on the East side and a male on the West side.

He first appears as the picture in hand with R. K. Maroon in Maroon's Office, and later appears as the masks of tragedy and comedy on the keystone of the entrance to Toontown.

A keystone species is a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its environment relative to its abundance.

Given that there are many historical definitions of the keystone species concept, and without a consensus on its exact definition, a list of examples best illustrates the concept of keystone species.

One example is the herbivourous weevil Euhrychiopsis lecontei and its suggested keystone effects on aquatic plant species diversity by foraging on nuisance Eurasian Watermilfoil.

In 1642, a keystone arch bridge and a dam were built on the Mill River for the fulling mill, the first such in the colonies.

The windows on the main floor are each surrounded by smaller pilasters beneath a triangular pediment formed by keel moulding geisons, while the second level windows are each simply framed by astragal moulding broken at the top by a keystone.

* keystone species-keystone species is a species that has a disproportionate effect on its environment relative to its abundance.

The keystone shape is also used on Pennsylvania's state route markers.

Because of the rich diversity of life, most animal species along the Oregon coast depend on these keystone zones for survival.

" " The keystone of the argument is that local orders exist ; that these orders are witnessable in the scenes in which they are produced ; and that the possibility of intelligibility is based on the actual existence and detailed enactment of these orders " ( Rawls: 2000: 146 ).

2nd century AD, literally " Scripture of Dance ," though it sometimes translated as " Science of Theatre '") is a keystone work in Sanskrit literature on the subject of stagecraft.