Sentence examples for barrens from inspiring English sources

Grasses, occasional prostrate willows, and mat-forming dryas occur in patches in the uplands and are the dominant vegetation in the polar barrens.

Some ducks living in the marshes become very shy and retiring at this season, skulking in the reeds, but geese nesting in the Arctic barrens continue to walk about over the tundra, feeding.

Pitcher plants are found in a wide range of habitats with poor soil conditions, from pine barrens to sandy coastal swamps, and rely on carnivory to obtain nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus.

In addition, most tundra and polar barrens are underlain by soils that are permanently frozen (permafrost) except for a thin surface zone (active layer) that thaws each summer.

Along with the factors mentioned above, this freeze-thaw cycle sets the tundra apart from two ecosystems frequently found adjacent to it the icy polar barrens on the one hand and the evergreen boreal forest on the other.

Vertebrate species of the Arctic tundra and polar barrens are limited to mammals and birds; no amphibians or reptiles occur there.

The caribou again move northward as early as late February and return to the barrens.

Tundras are most common in the Low Arctic, and polar barrens are dominant in the High Arctic.

In North American Arctic regions, herds of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) settle during the summer in the barrens rather flat wasteland with little vegetation.

The Pennyrile encompasses wooded rocky hillsides, small stock farms, cliffs, and an area once known as the Barrens in reference to a condition caused by the continuous burning off of forest cover by the local population to make grasslands for deer and buffalo.

County woodlands, which mainly consist of shortleaf pines, feature the area known as the Pine Barrens.