Sentence examples for native stand from inspiring English sources

For instance, in the Transvaal, in northeast South Africa, the last remaining native stand of E. dyerianus is surrounded by a tall fence topped with razor wire and watched day and night by an armed guard.

Comparing the position of the most distant culm outside the leading edge of the stands positioned the previous year, he found that the introduced stand expanded by 1.11 m, while the adjoining native stand contracted or was displaced by 1.59 m.

Because this approach provides a 'before and after' type comparison of the change in the population's behavior in response to warming, it can be used to predict differences between the population's future performance and that achieved under current conditions in its native stand.

Mr. Martinez, a 6-foot-2-inch, 300-pound Brooklyn native, stood his ground.

Mr. Oliveira, a Portuguese native, stands on the sidewalk holding his bread purchases and chatting with a fellow customer.

As the cameras flashed at one event in Punxsutawney, Sam Smith, the speaker of the Pennsylvania House and a local native, stood with an oversize cardboard check for area private schools.

The newcomer and the native stood at opposite ends of the range in this state, two separate designs in what Mrs. Clinton called "this wonderful patchwork quilt of a place".

Is this the right time to pick them, and what are my chances of success? A. Collecting wildflower seed is much less destructive of native stands than the gathering of plants, and in the case of bunchberries it's also more likely to lead to success, said Cheryl Lowe, horticultural director of the New England Wild Flower Society, in Framingham, Mass.

Landscape analysis and literature review revealed that these emerging stands are highly fragmented (60% were <1 ha in 1991), function as refugia for native organisms, and at 60 80 years old have similar species richness and structural features as native stands of similar age.

According to Wikipedia, "wild" has been adopted as a marketing term for harvests of managed native stands of lowbush blueberries.

Woad was carried to New England in the 17th century and used extensively in America until native stands of indigo were discovered in Florida and the Carolinas.