In the evenings, the peasants on the high slope may smoke a sheesha in a patch of meadow and look down on the city lights.
It was a telling symbol, Lexington decided, sitting on his own patch of meadow while Iowa crickets and grasshoppers bounced on and off him.
She sat on straw strewn over a bare patch of the meadow, while her 4-year-old son, Tenzin Kunga, played with a Game Boy.
You can choose the length to leave your grass so it's easy to create a patch of hay meadow for a few months if you feel like encouraging a more bee and butterfly-friendly environment.
This experiment allowed examination of the extent this butterfly would scan the landscape matrix outside the patches of damp meadows.
The litter bags were placed in a homogeneous patch of an adjacent meadow, thus quantifying the effect of community-specific litter composition and quality on decomposition processes, independent of differences in microenvironmental conditions induced by the experimental communities.
Therefore, SWC may be high in certain patches of the meadow and create environmental conditions conducive for methanogenic microorganisms, but low in other microsites across the grassland.
It is possible that methane emissions from a small stream and adjacent wet patches of the meadow, that are normally not part of the footprint, have contributed disproportionally to observed methane emissions.
Her intimate knowledge of the park's 843 acres — whether there has been an outbreak of curly-leaf pondweed on the Harlem Meer, for instance, or a brown patch of grass at the Sheep Meadow — helps landscapers decide what steps to take to maintain their assigned zones.
Ticks inhabit dense, wooded vegetative areas--patches of overgrown shrubs, meadows with thick brush, and places where the ground is covered with decaying leaves.
