Sentence examples for patch of native from inspiring English sources

Out back is a simple garden with a patch of native grasses and a slim swath of bamboo.

He delights in the smallest patch of native grassland on an unplowable hillside and bristles at the "countless man-made intrusions".

On March 27, however, Karl Umiker, a University of Idaho research support scientist, working with Shan Xu, a graduate student from Chengdu, China, discovered two giant Palouse earthworms, a juvenile and an adult, on a small patch of native prairie near Moscow, Idaho.

In many other places around the nation where so-called ecological restoration efforts are under way -- like the Midwest, where environmental groups and government agencies are re-establishing patches of native prairie grasses -- dipping into the old gene pool is also fairly simple, just a matter of replanting or encouraging a return to some more natural state.

The path passes through patches of native plants like silver beech and hinau trees and foreign species like California redwoods and Australian kangaroo paw flowers, then skirts around fields of children playing cricket and a rose garden with fiery species with names like Tropical Skies and Holy Toledo.

In addition, the planting forms a block of vegetation that links remnant patches of native vegetation.

In this study we surveyed birds in 39 remnant patches of native vegetation of various sizes (range 1 107 ha) embedded in the suburban matrix in Melbourne, Australia.

To meet more rigorous standards of sustainability, tropical plantations would have to retain large patches of native forests in the matrix.

In the best case scenario, roosts would attract seed-carrying bats (Family Phyllostomidae) into degraded pastures and form nucleating patches of native vegetation.

Local-scale measures that typically help to achieve such integration are the retention of patches of native vegetation, the maintenance of structural complexity in farmed areas, minimizing chemical use, and using practices that are locally proven to benefit biodiversity.

The conversion of wetlands and its associated habitat for farming, residential development and commercial purposes has led to many small disconnected patches of native vegetation surrounded by generally inhospitable human altered land uses.