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51. Closeable gas exchange pores prevent water loss.
"Amazonian rainforest plants are isohydric. The drier the soil and the more effort it takes to pull water up the xylem from the soil to the leaves, the more stomata close in response to low soil moisture. This restricts plant water use in the dry ...
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53. drinkingwatercooler
Drinking water cooler is essential to allow you clean and distilled drinking water cooler. Drinking water cooler are essentially important for the health and safety
54. Multiple organisms strip nutrients: forests
"Water supply authorities operate at the other extreme of the biodiversity scale preferring water catchments that are fully vegetated, whether by native forest, woodland or plantations. In such cases, the expectation is not that the catchment ecos...
55. Leaves given structural support: giant water-lily
"In still or slowly-moving waters there is one easy way to collect [light]: a plant can float its leaves upon the surface. No plant does this on a more spectacular scale or more aggressively than the giant Amazon water-lily. A leaf first appears o...
56. Setae draw water from mud: marsh crab
"Some species, including Sesarma, have an additional means of gaining water from the soil by what are, in effect, roots. Tufts of hydrophilic setae at the bases of the legs are brought into contact with the moist surface of the mud and can actuall...
57. Fine filaments filter water: peacock worm
"A feeding peacock worm…has a fan of radiating tentacles fringed with fine filaments to sieve food particles from the water currents." (Foy and Oxford Scientific Films 1982:25)
58. Skin protects from water loss: humans
"The vertebrate integument represents an evolutionary compromise between the needs for mechanical protection and those of sensing the environment and regulating the exchange of materials and energy. Fibrous keratins evolved as a means of strengthe...
59. Plants use molecular bonding to transport water.
Fluid transport through plant xylem and phloem occurs through cohesion (water molecules bonding to each other to form a chain), adhesion (water molecules hydrogen bonding with tube walls), and transpiration. Transpiration creates a pressure gradie...
60. Hairs prevent entry of water: rat-tailed maggot
"Some diptera (Syrphidae or red-tailed maggots [rat-tailed maggots]) and Ephydridae (shore flies) have a pair of posterior, telescopic breathing tubes that open in spiracles with hydrophobic hairs that prevent water from entering." (van der Valk 2...
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