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"text": "The managed old-growth alternative would actively recruit an acceptable number of large snags over time by allowing superdominant leave trees to mature and convert to large snags.",
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"ref": "1986, Jeffrey W. Grimm, Richard H. Yahner, Status and Management of Select Species of Avifauna in Pannsylvania with an Emphasis on Raptors",
"text": "A few large dominant or superdominant trees should be left as potential nest trees.",
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"ref": "2009, Donald Dickmann, David D. Glenn, Forestry Field Studies: A Manual for Science Teachers, page 39",
"text": "Trees should not be included in a superdominant stratum unless they are considerably larger and clearly of an earlier generation than the trees of the main overstory.",
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"ref": "2009, Peter Hedström, Peter Bearman, The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology",
"text": "In decision-theoretical tenns, therefore, to believe in God is superdominant over disbelieving.",
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"(decision theory) Comprising the winning strategy in all cases."
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"ref": "1975, William R. Burch, Beyond Growth: Essays on Alternative Futures, page 76",
"text": "A strategy for survival is needed to replace man's present role as an unrestricted superdominant of the biosphere, for this role is a strategy for self-defeat.",
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"ref": "1997, F. E. Wielgolaski, Polar and Alpine Tundra - Volume 3, page 405",
"text": "The earthworm Eisenia nordenskioldi is also a typical superdominant of tundra cenoses.",
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"ref": "2008, Annales Zoologici - Volume 58, Issues 1-2, page 270",
"text": "Asca bicornis (27.8%) was no longer a superdominant, and three species of the family Laelapidae (Hypoaspis claviger, H. nolli and Hypoaspis aculeifer) jointly constituted 31.3% of total",
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