Sentence examples for plant sparse from inspiring English sources

Notation according Braun-Blanquet: + − plant sparse, cover up to 1% of area; 1 - plants cover up to 5%; 2 - up to 25%; 3 25 50%; 4 50 75% area.

It appears that extensive, dense beds of tall reeds support fewer species of breeding birds in the northeastern states than do small reedbeds, reedbeds with an admixture of other herbaceous or woody plants, sparse reedbeds and reedbeds in which patches of Phragmites are interspersed with pools or clearings (Fig. 9).

This value likely reflects error during the phase unwrapping procedure rather than real behaviour as the region near the geothermal plant contains sparse coherent PS and SAR acquisitions during the period of maximum deformation.

Because the latter phylogenies included members of only a few green plant lineages, sparse taxon sampling was suspected to be a possible cause of the conflicting results.

In this article, we formulate the maximum hands-off control for linear discrete-time plants by sparse optimization based on the ℓ 1 norm.

Furthermore, reproductive success in plants in sparse populations may benefit from lower competition for resources, such as light, soil nutrients and water.

Other than pine seedlings, they had either no visible living plants or sparse growth of ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) and grasses.

Field data on heavy metal effluents from geothermal plants are sparse and confounded by contributions from "natural" sources such as geysers and hot springs which often exist nearby.

BSCs occur on all continents on Earth, in warm arid and semi-arid habitats as well as in other climate zones such as alpine regions, where soil moisture is limiting and cover provided by higher plants is sparse (Belnap and Lange 2001).

You can have a rich dense garden of many desert type plants, or a more sparse planting arrangement.

On the other hand, because the bacteria flourish on some plants and are sparse on others, planting the right vegetation could enhance rain.