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bilaterally symmetric
URI:
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
Definition:
being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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boreal forests (taiga)
URI:
http://eol.org/schema/terms/boreal_forests_taiga
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https://www.worldwildlife.org/biomes/boreal-forests-taiga
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forest
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000174
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A forest biome is a terrestrial biome which includes, across its entire spatial extent, densely packed vegetation which strongly limits light penetration to the forest floor.
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Preliminary definition.
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ice cap
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000145
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A dome-shaped ice mass that covers less than 50,000 km2 of land area (usually covering a highland area).
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000873
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A biome that applies to the freshwater realm.
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self-propelled movement of an organism from one location to another through the air, usually by means of active wing movement
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actively mobile
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uses self-propelled locomotion to change location on a regular basis
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the Palearctic
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q106447
Definition:
largest of the eight ecozones constituting the Earth's surface
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The Nearctic
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one of the eight terrestrial ecozones constituting the Earth's land surface
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ecozone_Nearctic.svg
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