Sentence examples similar to fire stimulated from inspiring English sources

Fire stimulates the growth of certain plants, like dwarf pines; it melts the resin seal on the dwarf pines' cones and releases the seeds.

For example, many plant species in fire-prone environments have seeds that remain dormant within the soil until the heat of a fire stimulates them to germinate.

Fifteen of the species had fire-stimulated recruitment and 14 recruit in unburnt, older vegetation.

Fire stimulates release and germination of seeds of the jack pine, and also enriches the forest floor with wood ash and removes competing vegetation.

That's exactly where the brittle star has nerves that fire when stimulated by light, Hendler says.

In contrast, SEA results from Lago Perso show that fire clearly stimulated the abundance of Larix decidua after a period of 100 years (Figure 2B).

By contrast to depolarizing stimuli, which offered relatively large switching windows (up to half of the cycle), hyperpolarizing stimuli distributed among 50% of cells produced switching only if delivered in a very narrow time window during firing of stimulated cells in both the 2-cell (Fig. 5 B1) and the 4-cell network (Fig. 5 B2).

The land was managed by Aboriginal tribes or language groups for tens of thousands of years through a range of traditional practices, including the use of fire to stimulate the growth of valued plants or to clear grasslands for hunting.

According to Forsyth and Walker (2008), controlled burning practices can systematically enrich both forest and fallow vegetation as stored nutrients are released and added to the soil resulting in increased biomass production, while fire also stimulates seed dispersal and controls disease and pest outbreaks.

Native North Americans were among the first to influence fire regimes by controlling their spread near their homes or by lighting fires to stimulate the production of herbaceous foods and basketry materials.

Thus, inferring the time of origin of fireprone floras using individual genera within a family can be artificially constrained by extinction of certain lineages or age of the clade itself, ignoring the possibility that it was a change in the fire regime that stimulated the evolution of the clade in the first place.