Preposition: of

• island: Spiders of Portland - Ian Pembroke's photo archive of the arachnid fauna of the island.

• region: FAUNA The fauna of the region has not been studied in any detail.

Converse of object

• associate: There is also a lack of information on the invertebrate fauna associated with restored upland hay meadows.

• dominate: Mammals dominated the land fauna following the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous.

• yield: These sections have yielded an unexpectedly diverse vertebrate fauna, in comparison with previous work, with over twenty individual taxa present.

• expect: In developing RIVPACS, a wide range of different methods of classifying the reference sites and predicting the expected fauna were tested.

Adjective modifier

• invertebrate: The reserve has a rich invertebrate fauna which has been studied.

• benthic: Benthic fauna of the deeper waters of the High coast are dominated by a small number of species.

• vertebrate: These sections have yielded an unexpectedly diverse vertebrate fauna, in comparison with previous work, with over twenty individual taxa present.

• Pleistocene: Similar conclusions concerning the late survival of the Pleistocene fauna were drawn by various field workers in many parts of the American continent.

• mammalian: The mammalian fauna was truly fabulous, to put it mildly.

• aquatic: Industrial contaminants can be particularly harmful to the aquatic fauna, with some species unable to tolerate the change in water quality.

Modifies a noun

• specie: Many of the cave fauna species are endemic, with 41 on the endangered species list.

• survey: Details of a 1987 fauna survey are given in Bedel et al.

Noun used with modifier

• freshwater: The native freshwater fish fauna, totalling 17 species, is exceptionally large relative to the rest of New Zealand.

• mammal: Ornithologists, however, should not be deterred by the sorry state of the park's mammal fauna.

• insect: In addition, the upland lakes support a species poor but notable upland insect fauna.

• invertebrate: The aim was to survey the habitat resource and to characterize the sediment types favored by the specialist invertebrate fauna.

• spider: Clearly Havergate Island has a very important spider fauna with a species content markedly skewed toward rarity.

• butterfly: The butterfly fauna of the Krakatau Islands after a century of colonization.