Sentence examples for extensive stands from inspiring English sources
The somewhat wetter Mojave Desert contains extensive stands of Joshua trees, which are unique in their appearance, with multiple arms ending in bunches of needlelike leaves.
The surrounding area is predominantly a rice-growing region, except for its sandy Indian Ocean coastline, on which extensive stands of casuarina trees have been planted.
There are extensive stands of teak, oak, conifers, and hardwoods of the Dipterocarpaceae family (including members the commercially valuable genus Shorea).
The fungus, introduced from Asia, found a home in the Fagaceae of eastern North America but was lethal to the American chestnut (Castanea dentata), the dominant species of extensive stands in the southern Appalachians and elsewhere.
The work focussed on a fragmented forest in south-eastern Australia comprised of a network of 39 patches of native eucalypt forest surrounded by extensive stands of exotic softwood Radiata Pine (Pinus radiata) plantation.
The endemic Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica forms dense and extensive stands that occur in several different morphotypes, including reticulate (seagrass interspersed with a different habitat type, such as bare sand) and continuous beds.
With a half-million acres underwater, the park claims the biggest protected mangrove forest in the Western Hemisphere as well as the continent's most extensive stand of sawgrass prairie.
The abundant canopy seed bank in young post-fire stands suggests substantial resilience of this forested landscape to extensive stand-replacing disturbance.
Recent severe and extensive mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae; MPB) outbreaks have created novel conditions in Southern Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine forests which historically had disturbance regimes dominated by extensive, stand-replacing fires.
The paper then summarizes results from a recent study on how natural forest species invade an extensive stand of the invasive Black wattle (Acacia mearnsii) and how browsing by different types of animals limit the establishment success of the natural forest species.
Our results indicate that management treatments that leave residual woodland cover and are not adjacent to extensive sagebrush stands are unlikely to establish sagebrush birds.
