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and Dress of the Best American Society, suggested women should emulate the moss-rose to become beautiful in spirit and in intellect,
Mcgrath State Beach Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve Morro Strand State Beach Moss Landing State Beach Olompali State Historic
Pale golden musk, honeycomb, amber, parma violet, hawthorne bark, aspen leaf, forest lily, life everlasting, white moss,
Among the common plant life were pines mosses oaks and grasses. Flowering plants and edible crops dominate the landscape in the later part of this era as humans cultivate the land h
instead choosing a flat branch covered in cozy moss and needles with cover to hide from airborne predators.
After spring mating female blue tits collect moss and grass to construct the base of their nests inside the hollows of trees
and moss to others to make some larger. The team also added or removed odorous plants from different nests.
which Marie Antoinette had constructed for herself with a moss bed which she could lie On it had two entrances prompting much speculation as to
but rather how much people consume said Richard Moss a scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park Md.
People need to take steps to create an economic value for the lands where biodiversity is concentrated Moss said.
Along the way she encountered 5500-year-old Antarctic moss 80000-year-old aspen colonies and 100000-year-old underwater meadows of sea grass.
Mosses and ferns survived in coastal regions. Spiders scorpions millipedes and centipedes survived as well as the newer groups of beetles.
The mantises have flattened mottled bodies that mimic bark moss lichen or dead leaves. They fly poorly so their last line of escape is to leap to the ground
so learning that there's 5500-year-old moss on Antarctica was a big surprise. A lot of these organisms live in very extreme environments all sorts of places where we think life shouldn't survive let alone thrive.
Varner is studying pikas in Oregon's Columbia river Gorge where this rabbit relative munches on moss instead of grass and flowers.
The bright-green color is mostly sphagnum moss. Photos: Rare Glimpse of Remote Alaska The U s. Forest Service Inventory and Analysis program the largest network of forest inventory plots in the world does not include 450000 square kilometers (174000 square miles
000 plants species including bryophytes (mosses and liverworts) and legumes (peas and beans) from the five major plant groups.
Cindy Moss: We're looking for kids to come up with some kind of innovative solution to a problem in their life.
Cindy Moss: We want people to be willing to listen to others'ideas and not be afraid of prototyping and failing.
Our growth medium is mostly peat moss with some ground and sterilized styrofoam (recycled from the old
#A roly-poly pika gathers much moss: High-fiber salad bar may help lagomorphs survive climate changein some mountain ranges Earth's warming climate is driving rabbit relatives known as pikas to higher elevations
But University of Utah biologists discovered that roly-poly pikas living in rockslides near sea level in Oregon can survive hot weather by eating more moss than any other mammal.
Our work shows pikas can eat unusual foods like moss to persist in strange environments says biology professor Denise Dearing senior author of the new study published online today in the February 2014 issue
Mosses are 80 percent fiber. It's a bit like eating paper. By consuming mosses that grow on the rockslides where they live the pikas are released from foraging outside the safety
and shady heat buffer of the rocks where they can overheat or be killed by weasels
Few herbivores consume moss because it's so nutritionally deficient. The pikas in our study actually set a new record for moss in a mammal's diet:
60 percent. The study also found the low-elevation pikas build much smaller food caches to survive the winter compared with pikas in typical high-elevation habitat she adds.
The end product is six times more nutritious than the moss. Varner says the findings suggest Northwest residents may want to preserve moss that often covers rockslides which are known as talus slopes.
Moss is collected for horticulture in some areas and traipsing all over rockslides and trampling moss cover has become a popular pastime in the gorge she adds.
Funding for the study came from the National Science Foundation University of Utah the Wilderness Society Southwestern Association of Naturalists Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology and American Society of Mammalogists.
Pikas in the Mistthe Order lagomorpha has two families: one with rabbits and hares the other with pikas.
In the gorge--which runs roughly 30 miles east-to-west--these American pikas--Ochotona princeps--live among the rocks on moss-covered talus slopes.
The scientists surveyed the abundance of lichens mosses ferns grasses sedges rushes forbs shrubs and trees along the two rockslides.
Eat Moss Eat Poop and Livesixty percent of the pikas'diet by dry weight came from moss at both sites with the rest from grasses lichens ferns forbs shrubs and some fir needles.
The pikas favored two species: hoary rock moss and big red-stem moss. Varner is unaware that pikas have been seen eating moss elsewhere and certainly not in this quantity.
To our knowledge this study represents the highest degree of voluntary moss consumption reported for a mammalian herbivore in the wild
although wood lemmings have survived on a pure moss diet in a laboratory Varner and Dearing write.
Svalbard reindeer consume up to 54 percent moss in winter but most reindeer eat only 22 percent to 30 percent moss.
Brown lemmings can consume up to 40 percent moss during Arctic winters. And Soay sheep can eat up to 30 percent moss in winter.
Analysis of the pikas'caecal pellets showed they contained six times more protein than the moss they ate.
Less snow cover low in the Columbia Gorge--only about 20 days per winter--means the pikas there collect smaller haypiles (about 10 pounds per animal per year by dry weight) for winter than do pikas at high elevations
in Colorado (about 60 pounds per animal per year in a 1997 Dearing study. The haypiles contained little moss but had forbs shrubs
and fir needles high in phenol to preserve the food cache through the winter. Yet in both places the haypiles equaled about three ounces per animal per day of annual snowpack also showing the low-elevation pikas didn't need to prepare for winter as much because of the availability of their year-round salad bar.
The researchers wondered if nitrogen air pollutants from the Portland area might be absorbed by the moss making it more nutritious.
But the analysis found no support for that idea. In cooperation with the Oregon Zoo and local wildlife agencies Varner has helped begin a citizen science program in the Columbia river Gorge so local hikers can help monitor the pikas.
Pikas also exist in some other low-elevations places including in California's Sierra nevada and in lava flows in Idaho and Washington state.
Other individuals form attractive rounded clumps up to about 20 cm in diameter intermingled with mosses and lichens.
All localities where the species was found were humid and cool with calcareous stones covered with moss.
In these uplands feather mosses create a microhabitat for cyanobacteria which fix a modest amount of nitrogen that mostly stays on site in soils trees and shrubs.
The habitats of these boreal specialists--cool wet sphagnum-draped bogs and swampy woods--are thought to be vulnerable to climate change particularly in the Adirondacks where they are fragmented more than in forest to the north.
and is very difficult to locate because of their adept mimicry of bark moss and lichen.
At that time much of the plant life was composed of conifers ferns mosses and cycads. During the Cretaceous new lineages of mammals and birds were beginning to appear along with the flowering plants.
even if certain plants moss, lycophytes, gymnosperms, and other ferns already have a single copy of the gene.
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