(quoted in Hambrick) While trout thrive near the dam, the cold water drove out many native species.

Many amphibian and reptile species thrive near streams and ponds.

There are also many common ornamentals like hydrangeas and day lilies, which, deer aside, thrive near salt water.

Scientists have suggested that whole communities of organisms could thrive near areas heated by volcanic activity.

Wherever I am, the enemy will not thrive near me.

Yet, incredibly, young rabbits can continue to occupy another section of the same burrow system and thrive near the earth.

The Selsseress are an amphibious people who can thrive only in high humidity, preferably near water.

The species seems adapted to thriving near human activity, for it also emerges from disturbed ground.

This plant is salt-tolerant, so it thrives near the sea.

At the time dinosaurs thrived near the poles, conditions there were radically different from those today.