A study of coastal heaths on Pleistocene sand dunes around the Myall Lakes found B. aemula grew on ridges (dry heath) and B. oblongifolia on slopes (wet heath), and the two species did not overlap.
Tree ferns, I knew, were native, the philodendrons that swarmed up tree trunks definitely not; but the club moss that clothed a slope in wet green lace near a stand of banyan trees promptly stumped me.
Abandonment reduces light availability at ground level in lower slope grasslands (wet meadows) but does not produce a significant reduction in upper slope (driest) grasslands, although there is an increased spatial heterogeneity in the availability of light associated with the presence of scattered shrubs.
"We have to hike up the side of a cliff, do a bit of rock-climbing to get to the mouth of the cave, and then going in, we have to go 60 meters (200 ft) down a slope of wet clay.
Height and spread 5m x 6m Buy at trevenacross.co.uk Callistemon pallidus (now called Melaleuca pallida to confuse everyone) is a large, frost-hardy shrub with spreading branches that's common on rocky slopes and wet forests.
Landslides and mass movements were mainly restricted to non-cohesive quaternary material and usually took place during the monsoon period when slopes get wet and at saturation point give way to slides and other forms of erosion.
It is informative to note the large number of comments relating to land quality/topography which frequently highlighted aspects of unsuitability of land for crop production, steepness of slopes or wet land and weather conditions.
Jack does not want to go and look, but he runs across the hot part of the sand and onto the wet slope and stands there.
On a snow-whipped evening, Dakotah setting the table for supper, Verl said a cow who had tried to climb a steep, wet slope that apparently slid out from under her had landed on her back in the ditch.
He jumped out of the car, peered over a thicket of roadside bush and sloe trees, and disappeared down a steep, very wet slope before I had even unbuckled my seat belt — after which he emerged, upright and waving, in an overgrown copse enclosed by a circle of trees.
