Sentence examples for decayed timber from inspiring English sources
Water-soaked or decayed timber is vulnerable to insect attack [19 21].
The park was designated as an SAC in April 2005 on account of its having "a large number of ancient trees with decaying timber.
Fisher [20] states that the level of existing decay in the wood attacked by the deathwatch is another important factor the more decayed the timber the more prone it is to be attacked.
The crew passed the decaying timber docks and lush green overgrowth on North Brother Island, where herons and cormorants have replaced the typhoid victims who were once quarantined there.
It is at the heart of the south London centre of distribution for stag beetle Lucanus cervus, and is a site of national importance for the conservation of the fauna of invertebrates associated with the decaying timber of ancient trees".
By this time most of Roman London had been lost, with its many timber buildings decayed and its stone buildings reused.
In general, the loss of root strength through decay after timber harvest is a specific curve representing decay over time.
It is far easier to take peat from bogs than to manufacture compost from other decaying material like timber industry waste, and peat is much lighter and less expensive to ship.
They were watching for cylindrical depressions in the earth: evidence that under the clay fort had once stood timber fence posts, perhaps for so long that the wood had decayed, leaving a shell of earth behind.
In this view, next to carbon storage in forest biomass, any sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide by photosynthesis and timber growth additional to decay processes is of paramount importance.
