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An organism growing at a high temperature.

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  • The occurrence of thermophilous mollusks on Svalbard during the Holocene and their paleoclimatic implications.
  • As we have seen, thermophilous bacteria can grow at high temperatures, and it has long been known that some forms develop on ice.
  • The ecoregion includes the sub-Mediterranean subcontinental thermophilous bitter oak forests, montane to altimontane beech and mixed beech forests, and oro-Mediterranean...
  • Modifications and additions consist of including the hygro-thermophilous mixed deciduous broadleaf forests (and portions of swamp forests) in the eastern sections of the...
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