Sentence examples for a understory from inspiring English sources

The birch forest has a understory of grass or deciduous shrubs, such as Rosa acicularis, Spiraea sericea Turcz., or Rubus L. Fig. 1 Location of the Genhe study site in DaXing'AnLing Mountain, Inner Mongolia, China.

Figure 4 Carbon stocks in different pools for four Japanese cedar stands with stand ages between 40 and 90 years (a) understory vegetation, (b) forest floor, (c) woody debris, and (d) soil organic matter.

Here, woody plant diversity was lowest with a total of only five tree species (dominated by a maple (Acer) - cottonwood (Populus) association), and the vegetation structure was defined primarily by a an understory layer of immature trees 3-8 m tall, and an overstory layer 17-22 m tall.

Three strata of rainforests are broadly distinguishable: an understory, a middle story, and an upper story.

Evidence from fossilized pollen suggests these dinosaurs lived in a conifer forest with an understory that included flowering plants, ferns and horsetails.

"It was an editing job," Ms. Ruddick said as she stood in the front yard, where a giant Katsura tree and a towering redwood now command attention over an understory of newly planted woodland shrubs like deutzia, oakleaf hydrangea, mountain laurel and witch hazel.

Nearly all pinelands have an understory of palm shrubs, and a diverse ground covering of wild herbs.

The site is exceptionally sandy with coarse and fine-grained sands and covered by a primary mixed evergreen forest, with an understory dominated by saplings (<1 m).

The best-developed algal assemblage inside the cages at Kas included a canopy of Cystoseira spp. (mostly C. compressa); an understory of Dictyota spp., Hydroclathrus clathratus, and Padina pavonica; and a turf of small filamentous algae.

Another contains an overstory of Acer x freemanii with an understory of shade-loving maples, including snakebark maples (Acer davidii and Acer tegmentosum) and small trees similar to the Japanese maple, such as Acer shirasawanum and Acer pseudosieboldianum.

Bears prefer a mixed forest of hickory and oak with an understory of shrubs such as blueberry and laurel; they use patches of coniferous forest for cover during the winter months.