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  • noun Plural form of heathland.

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  • A fact not so hard to imagine when you consider it's diverse habitats ranging from barren deserts to alpine heathlands and tropical rainforests.

    Happy Australia Day! Travis Walter Donovan 2011

  • A fact not so hard to imagine when you consider it's diverse habitats ranging from barren deserts to alpine heathlands and tropical rainforests.

    Happy Australia Day! Travis Walter Donovan 2011

  • A fact not so hard to imagine when you consider it's diverse habitats ranging from barren deserts to alpine heathlands and tropical rainforests.

    Happy Australia Day! Travis Walter Donovan 2011

  • A fact not so hard to imagine when you consider it's diverse habitats ranging from barren deserts to alpine heathlands and tropical rainforests.

    Happy Australia Day! Travis Walter Donovan 2011

  • Wetter areas are home to the silken surfaces of green-veined whites, while some heathlands host the dazzling green hairstreak.

    Are butterflies the UK's most beautiful endangered species? | Dan Flenley 2011

  • There is also a significant endemic flora in the grasslands, heathlands, moorlands, and other non-forested habitats at higher elevations.

    Cameroonian Highlands forests 2009

  • Overclearing, changes to fire regimes in heathlands, extensive drainage of wetlands, alteration to flooding regimes, and severe fragmentation of habitat are taking a heavy toll of the natural biota of this region.

    Naracoorte woodlands 2008

  • On the coastline, heathlands with Ulex gallii occur, adapted to local ecological conditions of wind and sea spray.

    Atlantic mixed forests 2008

  • The Atlantic Mixed Forests Ecoregion includes coastal vegetation formations of dunes and heathlands with vegetation that thrives in salty soil.

    Atlantic mixed forests 2008

  • In general, heathlands with Ericaceae (Calluna, Erica, and Ulex spp.) have replaced natural forests.

    Atlantic mixed forests 2008

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