Sentence examples for high flood sites from inspiring English sources

This advantage gives a great opportunity at the relatively high flood sites.

Trees may disperse to higher flooded sites than the parent trees and establish during the terrestrial phase, but they often prove to be intolerant of the peculiar site conditions or quickly lose out competitively to better-adapted species (Wittmann et al., 2010).

Similarly, TPC values for each of the three Macaranga species were significantly higher in the flooded sites (being highest in the TPSF) than the two dry land sites.

Where river margins are developed for agriculture, the higher, less frequently flooded sites are preferentially selected.

The permanently flooded sites had higher PMO rates than the intermittently flooded sites (p < 0.05).

"We have high floods during the flood times," he said.

Extreme weather (river icing, very high floods) precludes sampling occasionally.

Coal ash sites contain harmful levels of arsenic, lead, mercury and other toxins, which can leach out slowly contaminating drinking water sources, or as in the case of the 44 "high hazard" sites, flood nearby communities with a life-threatening wave of toxic sludge as happened last year in Tennessee.

TPC values of leaves from all the flooded sites were significantly higher than the two dry land sites, which did not show any significant difference (2418 ± 100 for dry limestone forest and 2410 ± 118 gAE/100 g for secondary forest for M. triloba).

Trees that are successful at highly flooded sites are therefore light-demanding pioneer species which also have a high resprouting capacity (Worbes et al., 1992; Wittmann and Parolin, 2005).

But nobody can remember a higher flood.