""'Myrmecodia beccarii " "', "'ant-house plant, "'is an epiphytic plant on " Melaleuca " trees and others with spongy bark in the wetlands and mangroves of tropical north Queensland, Australia from Cooktown to Mission Beach.
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The treetop is a diverse and almost unknown environment to science; it is a space that offers a completely different perspective than the one seen from the ground, with various species of epiphytic plants, birds and butterflies.
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In the tropics, the helicopter damselfly " Mecistogaster modesta " ( Pseudostigmatidae ) breeds in phytotelmata, the small bodies of water trapped by bromeliads, epiphytic plants of the rainforest of northwest Costa Rica, at the high density of some 6000 larvae per hectare in patches of secondary forest.
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""'Utricularia unifolia " "'is a medium-sized epiphytic plant on moss-covered trees, rocks, or banks in cloud forests at altitudes between and . " U . unifolia " usually produces only one leaf ( rarely two or three ), which is where the species epithet " unifolia " is derived from.
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Despite claims that as many as half of fish species have disappeared from areas where Caulerpa grows, scientific studies have shown that fish diversity and biomass are equal or greater in Caulerpa meadows than in seagrass beds, that Caulerpa had no effect on composition or richness of fish species, and that species richness and epiphytic plant diversity is greater in Caulerpa than in pure sea grass.
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The New Zealand falcon nests in a scrape in grassy soil or humus in various locations : under a rock on a steep slope or on a rock ledge, among epiphytic plants on a tree branch, or under a log or branch on the ground, making the two or three eggs that they lay vulnerable to predators such as stray cats, stoats, weasels, possums, and wild dogs.
