las propias (in this context)

English translation: endemic

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Spanish term or phrase:las propias
English translation:endemic
Entered by: Carol Geraldine Chua Yu

21:16 Aug 14, 2012
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Environment & Ecology
Spanish term or phrase: las propias (in this context)
La mayor riqueza de especies, área basimétrica e indice de diversidad se encontró en los bosques de Mora gonggrijpii. Las posibles causas asociadas con la mayor riqueza de especies, pudiera estar relacionada a la coexistencia en dichos bosques de especies intermedias desde el punto de vista sucesional que junto con las tardías y las propias del bosque primario en su conjunto condicionan un incremento sustancial de éste atributo.

I don't seem to be able to grasp what "las propias" in this context seems to refer to.
Carol Geraldine Chua Yu
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:31
endemic (in this context)
Explanation:
It refers to those species originally belonging to this type of forest (primary or old-growth forest), ie the forest's endemic species. The sentence could go like this: "(...) which, together with species endemic to primary forest as a whole, and late successional species (...)"
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Gabriel Lyonnet
Argentina
Local time: 22:31
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4 +4endemic (in this context)
Gabriel Lyonnet
4 +1and those of (the forest)
Lydia De Jorge


  

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endemic (in this context)


Explanation:
It refers to those species originally belonging to this type of forest (primary or old-growth forest), ie the forest's endemic species. The sentence could go like this: "(...) which, together with species endemic to primary forest as a whole, and late successional species (...)"


    Reference: http://www.albertinerift.org/Wildlife/Biodiversity/Endemicsp...
    Reference: http://www.eoearth.org/article/Plant_succession?topic=58074
Gabriel Lyonnet
Argentina
Local time: 22:31
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Native speaker of: Spanish
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  James A. Walsh: I also think "endemic" is the intended meaning here. Good references.
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  -> thank you, James!

agree  Rosa Paredes: my first thought also.
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  -> gracias, Rosa!

agree  Richard Hill
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  -> thanks

agree  Letredenoblesse
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  -> thanks, Agnes
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
and those of (the forest)


Explanation:
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Lydia De Jorge
United States
Local time: 20:31
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lafayette Eaton: More precisely, "and those of the primary forest which together produce a substantial increase in species richness."
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