Sentence examples for edges of forest from inspiring English sources

Many woodland owls secure prey by dropping from perches at the edges of forest openings.

The researchers found that many more trees died near the edges of forest fragments than within continuous forests, and that a far higher proportion of the dead trees near edges were more than 24 inches in trunk diameter.

Many of this year's attacks were in places on the edges of forest reserves, reflecting the growing encroachment of humans on the leopard's ecosystem, said Belinda Wright, the executive director of the Wildlife Protection Society of India, a nonprofit group.

Some of the wild trees are now in open areas because the forest was cut around them, or are on the edges of forest fragments and therefore have access to more light and possibly nutrients than wild trees in the center of the forest.

Typically, invasives do best in disturbed areas or along the edges of forests, where grasses and shrubs dominate.

Yet most biologists had assumed that the elephants readily mix on the edges of forests, and forest elephants were usually designated as a subspecies, Loxodonta africana cyclotis.

Because they are better at detecting predators, they can make their homes in open fields and at the edges of forests, and aren't restricted to the dense thickets where New England cottontails live.

Check around ponds and edges of forests.

Whether the high elevation species that occur along the edge of forest and grassland areas are more amenable to peripatric speciation than rainforest-restricted species awaits additional assessment across more taxonomic groups.

It would not require that money be spent where it was most needed, which is (as California's fires show anew) at the suburbanized edge of forests.

First, thick, inflexible trunks may be more susceptible to uprooting in windy conditions, which are worse near the edge of forests.