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| Giant clam in hydrothermal vent community. |
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| Use ammonia in soil as sole energy source. First step in nitrification. |
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| Bacteria that use the remaining energy in nitrite ion and oxidize it to nitrate. Second step in nitrification. |
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| Chestnut blight, kills American Chestnut. |
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| Quaking aspen, pioneer of disturbed areas, sun-loving, clonal. |
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| Pitch pine, poor or sandy soils, resin, turpentine, and tar. |
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| Grey birch, open, sunny areas, acid-tolerant. |
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| Red maple, wet or moist soils, stream banks. |
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| Witchhazel, sub-canopy species, medicinal uses. |
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| Moist, sandy, upland soils, early cure-all for diseases. |
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| American chestnut, sub-canopy shrub. |
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| Water millfoil, submerged plant, problems species in lakes. |
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| Cattail, lakes, ponds, and marshes. |
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| Large vestimentiferan tube worms at hydrothermal vents. |
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| White pine, well-drained, sandy soils, largest NE conifer. |
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| Red Oak, sandy-gravelly soils. |
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| White oak, rich/moist soil, bottomlands and some upland soils. |
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| Hemlock, acid soils, moist/cool valleys, tannin, tea, and broom handles, threatened by wooly adelgid. |
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| Rhododendron periclymenoides |
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| Fragrant water lilly, aquatic, white/floating flowers. |
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| Spatterdock/Yellow Water Lily, floating plants, benthic rhizomes. |
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