Sentence examples for grazing lawn from inspiring English sources

The short grass site at Seme is a white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) grazing lawn with very short grass, which may lead to seeds losing moisture through more direct sunlight.

On coral reefs large herbivores such as fishes and sea urchins can remove >90% of the daily seaweed production and maintain a "grazing lawn" of small, highly productive, algal turfs that supports a large portion of the secondary production on reefs [1], [2], [3].

In the field we found that soils with the highest micro nutrient levels (formed by Macrotermes) showed the largest increase in cover of grazing lawn species.

Some of the ways termites can contribute to grazing lawn development is through erosion of soil from aboveground mounds to the surrounding soil surface.

Selective grazing can either reduce the effective value of the food resource by promoting the spread of lower-quality plant species or parts, or enhance it by cultivating young growth stages of the plants cropped (e.g. via grazing lawns; [98]).

A key aspect of savannah vegetation heterogeneity is mosaics formed by two functional grassland types, bunch grasslands, and grazing lawns.

D.  longiflora or False Couch Grass (here after referred to as lawn grass) is a palatable, stoloniferous grass species that forms extensive grazing lawns in HiP.

There is considerable debate about the conditions that allow the establishment and maintenance of grazing lawns (Archibald 2008; Cromsigt and Olff 2008).

Grazing lawns consist of a community of short statured, stoloniferous, grazing tolerant grasses that are key resource areas for savannah herbivores (Grant and Scholes 2006; Verweij and others 2006; Stock and others 2009).

Having created the necessary disturbance to the tall grass layer by mound building and removing plant/grass material (Lee and Wood 1971; Pomeroy 1983; Spain and McIvor 1988; Lobry de Bruyn and Conacher 1990), we hypothesize that termite mound erosion might further contribute to savanna grassland heterogeneity and specifically to the development of grazing lawns.

When the museum exhibit closes on May 4, fiberglass horses will once again graze the lawn at Franklin Avenue and Old Country Road.