Sentence examples for conifer cones from inspiring English sources

Collection of conifer cones and leaves representing the modern western North American flora.

Contemporary smart building systems typically aim to reduce building energy use by means of technologically enabled climate-responsiveness; however, these technologies lack the efficiency and elegance of naturally responsive mechanisms employing the inherent properties of available materials, such as the moisture-induced opening and closing of conifer cones.

"We also see an increase in the types of insect mouth parts," Leslie says, so insects could have broadened their diets to include conifer cones.

Then I collected conifer cones and measured how fast crossbills could remove seeds from average-sized cones from each of the four conifers.

Although I suspected that selection exerted on cones by red squirrels had contributed greatly to the evolution of other conifers including black spruce, I still had no evidence that crossbills have an evolutionary effect on conifer cones.

When red squirrels forage on conifer cones, they start at the base and bite off successive scales to reach the underlying seeds that tend to be concentrated at the distal end of the cone.

In an influential 1951 paper, Rudolf Florin hypothesized that the ovuliferous cone scale with its subtending bract of the modern conifer cone is homologous to the reproductive short shoot and its subtending bract of Cordaites.

The distance between microCT sections, called slices, is also very small; the finest spacing in this conifer cone study was 28 μm in a narrow fossil cone (CG061).

Primitive ancestors of conifers, cone-bearing plants, were also present at this time.

The conifers (cone-bearing plants such as modern pine trees) also made up a large part of Jurassic forests.

Dr. Tripp, who is partial to conifers, cone-bearing trees, led the way through the 40-acre collection, noting how it fans out "like a skirt around the conservatory," and contains specimens rare even in Japan.