Sentence examples for of extensive stands from inspiring English sources
The fungus, introduced from Asia, found a home in the Fagaceae of eastern North America but was lethal to the American chestnut (Castanea dentata), the dominant species of extensive stands in the southern Appalachians and elsewhere.
The abundant canopy seed bank in young post-fire stands suggests substantial resilience of this forested landscape to extensive stand-replacing disturbance.
The work focussed on a fragmented forest in south-eastern Australia comprised of a network of 39 patches of native eucalypt forest surrounded by extensive stands of exotic softwood Radiata Pine (Pinus radiata) plantation.
There are extensive stands of teak, oak, conifers, and hardwoods of the Dipterocarpaceae family (including members the commercially valuable genus Shorea).
The somewhat wetter Mojave Desert contains extensive stands of Joshua trees, which are unique in their appearance, with multiple arms ending in bunches of needlelike leaves.
The surrounding area is predominantly a rice-growing region, except for its sandy Indian Ocean coastline, on which extensive stands of casuarina trees have been planted.
It is known particularly for its extensive stands of Wandoo (Eucalyptus wandoo), Powderbark Wandoo (E. accedens) and Salmon White Gum (E. lane-poolei), and provides a haven for native flora and fauna while much of the surrounding country is badly affected by salinity.
With a half-million acres underwater, the park claims the biggest protected mangrove forest in the Western Hemisphere as well as the continent's most extensive stand of sawgrass prairie.
The paper then summarizes results from a recent study on how natural forest species invade an extensive stand of the invasive Black wattle (Acacia mearnsii) and how browsing by different types of animals limit the establishment success of the natural forest species.
Jack pine (Pinus banksiana) forests in parts of northern Lower Michigan have been managed with 30 years of extensive clearcut harvesting followed by planted stand establishment in order to maintain habitat for the endangered Kirtland's warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii).
It stands in the workings of extensive former chalk quarries that leave lakes and sheer sides that resemble inward-looking White Cliffs of Dover.
