Sentence examples for leaf key from inspiring English sources
The Leaf Key is the most highly structured, with relatively few tri- or quadracotomies.
We have found it best for novice users to begin with the Leaf Key as they are more accustomed to looking at leaves than buds, fruits or bark.
The VTree ID pages (Seiler and Peterson 1998 2010) offer three different identification keys: a dichotomous leaf key, a dichotomous twig key and a multichotomous tree key.
For instance, a user reaching page 5L in the Leaf Key must choose between Quercus palustrus, Q. falcata and Q. pagoda, species that can be difficult to distinguish.
For instance, when using the Leaf Key it is very common for novices to attend to the colour or degree of reflectance (shininess) of leaves, rather than characteristics of leaf shape, which are more diagnostic.
The keys were created by choosing three or four pictures (to account for variation) from the N set of groups at a given hierarchical level, and affixing them to a piece of paper in a way that preserved their group relationships (see page 1L of the Leaf Key).
The Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America (Stein et al. 2003) also uses images within its leaf keys, as well as in an illustrated reference guide to leaf structure at the back of the guide.
For Turning Leaf, the key to overcoming students' skepticism will ultimately be to get more graduates into real jobs with decent pay.
It has nineteen thousand six hundred and thirty trees on it, about eighty per cent of the Park's estimated twenty-four thousall trees, all of them identifiable according to a leaf-shape key.
Patterns of evolution of six key traits (leaf shape, leaf labdanum secretion, leaf pubescence, soil requirements, insolation conditions, habitat) were explored in the white-flowered Cistus lineage using the Bayesian consensus tree (calculated using the same parameters as above).
When cut apart, either the Leaf or Bark Key (upper section) can be used simultaneously with either the Bud or Fruit Key (lower section).
