automatic number identification
automatic number identification Digital telephone systems are now able to detect the number of a telephone which is initiating a call. This is known as automatic number identification; it is increasingly being used to ensure that only telephones whose number matches a list of authorized phones are allowed to carry out
DIAL-UP ACCESS to a network. It is also known as
CALLING LINE IDENTIFICATION.
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Epiphytes
Book article from: Plant Sciences
...of tropical rain forests. Epiphytes have unique ecological characteristics...for sunlight in the canopy; epiphytes do not have conventional roots...mycorrhizae) that aid the epiphyte in gathering additional nutrition...plants contain species that are epiphytes, but only several have a...
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epiphyte
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
epiphyte or air plant, any plant...differing from a parasite ). An epiphyte manufactures its own food...than from the soil. Some epiphytes are found in every major...plants, the best-known epiphytes are orchids and bromeliads...
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Forest, Tropical
Book article from: Biology
...plant types: shrubs, giant vines, herbs large and small, epiphytes (plants growing on other plants and not rooted in the ground), hemi-epiphytes (which begin life as epiphytes then extend roots to the ground), lichens, and mosses...
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Rain Forests
Book article from: Plant Sciences
...evergreen vegetation with lianas and epiphytes . Most widespread are lowland tropical...layers. Lianas rooted in the ground and epiphytes (e.g., ferns, orchids, and bromeliads...five years, and covered with mats of epiphytes (such as mosses, lichens, and algae...
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Interactions, Plant-Plant
Book article from: Plant Sciences
...xeromorphic leaves that help gain and retain water are characteristic of vascular epiphytes ( epiphyte means to live upon another). Bryophyte, lichen, and fern epiphytes are so abundant in the tropical rain forest that they often embody more plant...
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