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  2. Fire adaptations - Wikipedia

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    Fire adaptations are traits of plants and animals that help them survive wildfire or to use resources created by wildfire. These traits can help plants and animals increase their survival rates during a fire and/or reproduce offspring after a fire. Both plants and animals have multiple strategies for surviving and reproducing after fire.

  3. Xerocole - Wikipedia

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    A xerocole (from Greek xēros / ˈ z ɪ r oʊ s / 'dry' and Latin col(ere) 'to inhabit'), [2] [3] [4] is a general term referring to any animal that is adapted to live in a desert. The main challenges xerocoles must overcome are lack of water and excessive heat. To conserve water they avoid evaporation and concentrate excretions (i.e. urine and ...

  4. Tardigrade - Wikipedia

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    Their eggs and resistant life-cycle stages (cysts and tuns) are small and durable enough to enable long-distance transport, whether on the feet of other animals or by the wind. [ 3 ] Individual species have more specialised distributions, many being both regional and limited to a single type of habitat, such as mountains. [ 6 ]

  5. Fire ecology - Wikipedia

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    For example, plants of the genus Eucalyptus contain flammable oils that encourage fire and hard sclerophyll leaves to resist heat and drought, ensuring their dominance over less fire-tolerant species. [17] [18] Dense bark, shedding lower branches, and high water content in external structures may also protect trees from rising temperatures. [19 ...

  6. Wildlife conservation - Wikipedia

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    The wildlife trade also causes issues for natural resources that people use in their everyday lives. Ecotourism is how some people bring in money to their homes, and with depleting the wildlife, this may be a factor in taking away jobs. [33] Illegal wildlife trade has also become normalized through various social media outlets.

  7. Ant - Wikipedia

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    Ant mound holes prevent water from entering the nest during rain. In addition to defence against predators, ants need to protect their colonies from pathogens. Secretions from the metapleural gland, unique to the ants, produce a complex range of chemicals including several with antibiotic properties. [106]

  8. Salamander - Wikipedia

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    Some Persians believed the fiber was the fur of an animal called the samandar (Persian: سمندر), which lived in fire and died when exposed to water; [123] [124] this may be where the belief originated that the salamander could tolerate fire. [125] Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor (800–814), is also said to have possessed such a ...

  9. Marine conservation - Wikipedia

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    They provide various marine animals with food, protection, and shelter which keep generations of species alive. [13] Furthermore, coral reefs are an integral part of sustaining human life through serving as a food source (i.e., fish and mollusks) as well as a marine space for ecotourism which provides economic benefits. [ 14 ]