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na·tive species

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  1. native speciesnoun

    a species that normally lives and thrives in a particular ecosystem. This can include any species that developed with the surrounding habitat, and can be assisted by or affected by a new species.

  2. native speciesnoun

    Plural of native species.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of native species in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of native species in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of native species in a Sentence

  1. Ryan Jenkinson:

    They are incredibly destructive animals to the native species in Hawaii.

  2. John Losey:

    We’ve gone from a really diverse complex of native species to a much less diverse complex, dominated by a few foreign cosmopolitan species, we are seeing that same trend worldwide.

  3. Ryan Jenkinson:

    It’s so hard because you don’t realize that by giving them food, letting them continue to reproduce — they’re having this huge impact on our native species here, it is a really hard subject because people really love their cats.

  4. John Losey:

    Using this wider net cast by our citizen scientists, over the last 10 to 15 years, we’ve identified substantially more of the rare native species than has been identified through conventional science.

  5. Elizabeth Clare:

    The non-invasive nature of this approach makes it particularly valuable for observing vulnerable or endangered species as well as those in hard-to-reach environments, such as caves and burrows. They do not have to be visible for us to know they are in the area if we can pick up traces of their DNA, literally out of thin air, air sampling could revolutionise terrestrial biomonitoring and provide new opportunities to track the composition of animal communities as well as detect invasion of non-native species.

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