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  2. Farhang-e-Asifiya - Wikipedia

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    Farhang-e-Asifiya (Urdu: فرہنگ آصفیہ, lit. 'The Dictionary of Asif') is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary compiled by Syed Ahmad Dehlvi. [1] It has more than 60,000 entries in four volumes. [2] It was first published in January 1901 by Rifah-e-Aam Press in Lahore, present-day Pakistan. [3] [4]

  3. Decomposition - Wikipedia

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    Prime decomposers are bacteria or fungi, though larger scavengers also play an important role in decomposition if the body is accessible to insects, mites and other animals. Additionally, [ 3 ] soil animals are considered key regulators of decomposition at local scales but their role at larger scales is unresolved.

  4. Microfauna - Wikipedia

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    They fill essential roles as decomposers and food sources for lower trophic levels, and are necessary to drive processes within larger organisms. Populations of microfauna can reach up to ~10 7 (~10,000,000) individuals per g −1 (0.1g, or 1/10th of a gram) and are very common in plant litter, surface soils, and water films. [ 3 ]

  5. Glossary of ecology - Wikipedia

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    deep sea community Any community of organisms linked by a shared habitat in the deepest parts of a sea or ocean. deforestation denitrification The breakdown by anaerobic bacteria of nitrates, mostly in the soil, into their constituent chemical elements: nitrogen and oxygen. density dependence

  6. Marine life - Wikipedia

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    The sea pig, a deep water sea cucumber, is the only echinoderm that uses legged locomotion. A benthopelagic and bioluminescent swimming sea cucumber , 3200 metres deep It is held by some scientists that the radiation of echinoderms was responsible for the Mesozoic Marine Revolution .

  7. Feroz-ul-Lughat Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Feroz-ul-Lughat Urdu Jamia (Urdu: فیروز الغات اردو جامع) is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary published by Ferozsons (Private) Limited. It was originally compiled by Maulvi Ferozeuddin in 1897. The dictionary contains about 100,000 ancient and popular words, compounds, derivatives, idioms, proverbs, and modern scientific, literary ...

  8. Decomposer - Wikipedia

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    The primary decomposer of litter in many ecosystems is fungi. [11] [12] Unlike bacteria, which are unicellular organisms and are decomposers as well, most saprotrophic fungi grow as a branching network of hyphae. Bacteria are restricted to growing and feeding on the exposed surfaces of organic matter, but fungi can use their hyphae to penetrate ...

  9. Detritus - Wikipedia

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    Horse feces and straw are forms of detritus, and are used as manure.. In biology, detritus (/ d ɪ ˈ t r aɪ t ə s / or / d ɛ ˈ t r ɪ t ə s /) is organic matter made up of the decomposing remains of organisms and plants, and also of feces.