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These wetlands act as a sponge in storms and in 1995, when the floods returned, the government did not have to expend resources in those areas.
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These water level fluctuations are an integral part of lake ecology, and produce and maintain extensive wetlands.
These sand bars are often associated with large wetlands, which support large numbers of plant and animal species, as well as providing important rest areas for migratory birds.
These wetlands originally flooded every winter and spring, but levee construction, agricultural encroachment and the construction of dams upstream have also eliminated the flooding process.
These marshes account for approximately 75 % of the wetlands in Utah.
Insects and invertebrates: These species total more than half of the 100, 000 known animal species in wetlands.
These constructed artificial wetland systems are highly controlled environments that intend to mimic the occurrences of soil, flora, and microorganisms in natural wetlands to aid in treating wastewater effluent.
These wide expanses are a unique characteristic of North Queensland wetlands produced by comparatively low rainfall and a short wet season that never washes the salt away.
These teenagers had hitherto worked as day labourers converting wetlands for human development, as masons, or as hands at the older Jewish settlements.
These wetlands continue to see improvement and development.
These scablands now host " pothole " lakes and wetlands, and are home to Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge.
These rising sea levels flooded the previously inland woodland of the Fenland basin, and over the next few thousand years led to extensive development of both salt-water and fresh-water wetlands.
These include wetlands, moist or drier grasslands, open or rocky mountain slopes, and human-modified habitats such as road verges, cultivation, weedy areas or pasture.
These tribes formed villages on the edges of hills above the wetlands around Lake Tai.
These wetlands play a vital role in sustaining a large population of wintering, staging and breeding birds.
These are rather drab brownish warblers usually associated with marshes or other wetlands.
These plants are found in wetlands, particularly marshes, where they spread by means of thick rhizomes.
These materials grow in wetlands throughout Maine.
These are very biodiverse systems and provide resources, shelter, nesting sites, and resting sites ( particularly Louisiana ’ s coastal wetlands such as Grand Isle for migratory birds ) to a wide array of wildlife.
These wetlands depend upon the seasonal cycles of the river.
These environments may include certain soils and groundwater, wetlands, oil reservoirs, poorly ventilated corners of the ocean, and in seafloor sediments.
These forest preserves contain oxbow, wetlands, and bottomland forest.
These permits are an essential part of protecting wetlands, which are often filled by land developers.
These wetlands are well recognised as the foundation for the village's valuable fishing and tourism sectors.
These wetlands, known as The Reedbeds after the dominant vegetation, occupied a large area of the western Adelaide Plains and was also fed by other waterways.
These and act
These people are practically always upper- or upper-middle-class persons, who attempt to act in what they regard as the interest of the entire society.
These trials were properly termed `` political cases '' in that the trial itself was a political act producing political consequences.
These individuals act as members of the group to which they belong, and what happens to them happens by virtue of their membership in the group.
These are: ( 1 ) the presence of a living being, human or animal ; ( 2 ) the knowledge that the being is a living being ; ( 3 ) the intent to kill ; ( 4 ) the act of killing by some means ; and ( 5 ) the resulting death.
These act as terminals for the inter island ferry services which carry both freight and passengers.
These are also called reprises or run-ins by many and in today's circus they are an art form in themselves, originally they were bits of " business " usually parodying the act that had preceded it.
These large litters act as compensatory measures against the high juvenile mortality rate – about 50 – 70 % of pups do not survive to adulthood.
These include concentration gradients of small molecules such as calcium, large complexes of enzymes that act together to carry out metabolic pathways, and protein complexes such as proteasomes and carboxysomes that enclose and separate parts of the cytosol.
These games, however, do not allow the participants to choose how much they drink, as this is dependent on the act of skill.
These results have been interpreted to suggest that people are capable of action before conscious experience of the decision to act occurs.
These three muscles act to support the arch of the foot and to plantar flex the fifth digit.
These officers, responsible to Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, were supposed to act as local proconsuls in each state, with near-complete control over the state governments.
These proteins act to accelerate hydrolysis of GTP to GDP and terminate the transduced signal.
These rights were now explicitly rooted in Roman Law, a far-reaching constitutional act.
These people mostly act as a parallel banking system for businessmen.
These turns act like a short-circuited transformer secondary winding, with large currents that cause power losses.
These usually include one or more sheds ; downward facing cup-shaped surfaces that act as umbrellas to ensure that the part of the surface leakage path under the ' cup ' stays dry in wet weather.
These vents act as a compensator, thus counteracting the tendency of machine pistols to rise when fired in automatic mode.
These will act as a single unit and are stacked with setbacks to form a revetment or retaining wall.
These articulators are discrete in that they can act independently of each other, and two or more may work together in what is called coarticulation ( see below ).
These antioxidants also can act as natural preservatives, preventing or slowing the spoilage of food, leading to a higher nutritional content in stored food.
These will provide services to city and government-owned establishments, and will act as an extra source of income through the sale of excess bandwidth mainly to companies.
These act as companions, guards, nannies, and even lie detectors, using their sense of smell.
These include the explanation that God's act of creation and God's act of judgement are the same act.
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