Sentence examples for grass tufts from inspiring English sources
In some areas with slightly more rainfall, grass tufts may grow 50 yards apart.
In addition, soil temperature significantly decreased near the plants, while soil water content was not influenced by the grass tufts.
Grasslands are often characterized by small-scale spatial heterogeneity due to the juxtaposition of grass tufts and bare ground.
Cast density was not significantly correlated with grass tuft density and their production was independent from the presence of grass tufts in pastures or litter quantity in forests.
Soil moisture is the most important parameter in SATCHMO influencing growth, reproduction, and mortality of shrubs and grass tufts, and that mediates competition.
We conclude that soil macrofauna diversity is low in pastures except close to the grass tufts, which can thus be considered as biodiversity hotspots.
The size of the largest grass tuft and the micro-landscape connectivity also had a significant effect on biodiversity.
Soil macrofauna was mainly found in the upper 10 cm of soil and biodiversity decreased with increasing distances to the nearest grass tuft and increased with increasing vegetation cover.
Our objective was to analyze the impact of grass tuft (Brachiaria bryzantha cv. marandu) spatial distribution on soil macrofauna diversity in Amazonian pastures, at a small scale (less than 9 m2).
For instance, grass cover can be rated by striding through the sample area and scoring, at every fall of the right foot: 5 (lawn), 4 (nearly a lawn), 3 (more grass tuft than bare ground), 2 (more bare ground than grass tuft), and 1 (very sparse to bare).
It will perform all these functions this weekend at Wave Hill, the public garden in Riverdale, whose fall festival theme is "The Glory of Grasses: Tufts, Stalks and Plumes".
