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- noun Plural form of
relict .
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Some species are relicts of the past and in danger of extinction, such as the Aramaic speaking clades.
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Some species are relicts of the past and in danger of extinction, such as the Aramaic speaking clades.
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Some species are relicts of the past and in danger of extinction, such as the Aramaic speaking clades.
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Many are relicts of the Tertiary flora and fauna isolated when the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau rose from the Tethys Sea of central China.
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Many species are relicts, isolated during the extreme climatic fluctuations of the Pleistocene in the moisture trap created by the high plateau to the west.
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Some relicts of eastern swamp communities, such as baldcypress, American sycamore, and black willow, occur along major streamcourses.
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Most of these endemics are confined to rainforests above 400 meters altitude, and many are considered to be relicts from formerly widespread temperate environments.
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The fauna contains both Mediterranean and Saharan Palaearctic species, relicts of a more humid climate: fish, brine shrimp and once even a dwarf crocodile Crocodylus niloticus, far from the nearest population in Egypt.
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Gondwana-era relicts that rafted north on the Deccan Plateau have also taken refuge here.
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This explains the very high level of species diversity and the presence of floral relicts.
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