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- Provide ecosystem services
- Plants minimize water loss: desert
- Multifunctional integration is remedy for architecture: ecosystems
- Marking unrewarding routes: pharaoh ant
- Collaborating for group decisions: honeybees
- Group minimizes wind resistance: pelicans
- Groups move efficiently: army ants
- Individual actions benefit group: white-fronted bee-eater
- Sustainable use of lands: grazing animals
- Wood self-assembles: trees
- Colonies self-assemble: bacteria
- Communities develop and change: riparian habitat
- Communities recover from floods: riparian habitat
- Communal 'slime-ways' used to glide: marine slime mold
- Congregating and physical stimulation trigger swarming: desert locusts
- Group organization protects from the cold: emperor penguins
- Swarms act as intelligent organizations: ants and bees
- Individuals avoid contact: mosquitofish
