Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Heard and McDonald Islands' has mentioned 'Fauna' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Contents 1 History 2 Geography 2.1 Wetlands 2.2 Climate 3 Wildlife 3.1 Flora 3.1.1 Constraints 3.1.2 History 3.1.3 Flowering plants and ferns 3.1.4 Mosses and liverworts 3.1.5 Algae 3.1.6 Vegetation communities 3.1.7 Outlook 3.2 Fungi 3.3 Fauna 3.3.1 Mammals 3.3.2 Birds 3.3.3 Terrestrial, freshwater and coastal invertebrates 3.4 Retreat of Heard Island glaciers 4 Administration and economy 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links | WIKI |
| Fauna[edit] | WIKI |
| Endemism is also generally low and the invertebrate fauna is exceptionally pristine with few, if any, (successful) human-induced introductions of alien species. | WIKI |
| Beetles and flies dominate Heard Island's known insect fauna, which comprises up to 21 species of ectoparasite (associated with birds and seals) and up to 13 free-living species. | WIKI |
| There is a pronounced seasonality to the insect fauna, with densities in winter months dropping to a small percentage (between 0.75%) of the summer maximum. | WIKI |
| Some sampling of freshwater fauna has been undertaken during recent expeditions and records to date indicate that the freshwater fauna includes a species of Protista, a gastrotrich, two species of tardigrade, at least four species of nematode, 26 species of rotifer, six species of annelid and 14 species of arthropod. | WIKI |
| The large macro-alga Durvillaea antarctica supports a diverse array of invertebrate taxa and may play an important role in transporting some of this fauna to Heard Island. | WIKI |
| Importantly, this Act also aims to protect matters of national environmental significance, such as World Heritage properties, from impacts even if they originate outside the property or if the values of the property are mobile (as in fauna). | UNESCO |