Sentence examples for narrow plant from inspiring English sources

However, 2,343 SPPs were identified even within the iceberg type allowing distinction of cultivars within this genetically narrow plant type.

Similarly, the frequency of leaf-use for perching and for cover increased during 2005 and 2006 as lizards moved off of narrow plant stems and onto new vegetative growth (χ2 = 13.37, df = 3, P = 0.0003; Fig 2C).

"In my dream world I would eliminate two lanes of traffic and enlarge each mall with a footpath again," she said, "giving Broadway a real park area instead of just a narrow planting strip.

Our results support the knowledge of local pastoralists that narrow plants (low-growing graminoids) are productive and nutritious.

These findings suggest high productivity and high protein concentrations in the plant body of low-growing graminoids (i.e. narrow plants).

It is plausible that local pastoralists empirically know that heavily grazed narrow plants recover quickly and regard such low-growing graminoids as good plants for livestock grazing.

According to Kakinuma et al. (2008), the pastoralists in northern Mongolia judge that pastures dominated by nariin ovs (narrow plants) are good for grazing livestock.

Coverage by nariin ovs (narrow plants) was compared among the five distances from the water point with the Kruskal-Wallis test because the data were not normally distributed.

As grazing intensity increased, communities dominated by branched and erect growth forms were replaced by short swards dominated by narrow plants (Figures 3 and 4; Table 2).

Typical narrow plants, including C. duriuscula, F. rubra, Koeleria macrantha, and Cleistogenes squarrosa, are regarded as good forages by local pastoralists (Kakinuma et al. 2008), and they have a tussock growth form.

They consider heavily grazed places as suitable for additional grazing because of the dominance of narrow plants (Kakinuma et al. 2008) and do not seem to perceive such heavy grazing as negative.