Sentence examples for small tussocks from inspiring English sources

Whole plant water use efficiency decreased with tussock size primarily because small tussocks exhibited high transpiration rates.

Small tussocks were more sensitive to soil drying than large and intermediate ones, presenting a faster rate of leaf senescence as water deficit increased.

Grass tussocks protected by surrounding vegetation or large grass tussocks suffered lower graminivory than tussocks in the open or small tussocks.

Such small patches of C4-rich vegetation are probably relicts from the last ice age during which paramo vegetation was mainly composed of small tussocks and tufts of C4 grasses [ 57].

The males create hollows in the sand or vegetated slopes or construct nests of tussocks and small rocks on bare ground.

The nest is a shallow cup of grass leaves built in a depression under a grass tussock or small bush.

The nest is a shallow cup of grass leaves, sometimes with a loose canopy, built in a depression and hidden under a grass tussock or small bush; it may be on dry ground or slightly raised above standing water, or occasionally floating.

Concealed in grass tussocks or low shrubs, the spherical nest is constructed of dried grasses and usually lined with smaller, finer grasses and hair.

Slow snow fell as the Zodiacs ferried me and the other passengers down a short channel between two low cliffs, shaggy with tussock grass, that led to a small, shingled cove near King Haakon Bay.

White-winged fairywrens often inhabit heathlands or treeless shrublands dominated by saltbush (Atriplex) and small shrubs of the genus Maireana, or grasses such as tussock grass (Triodia) and cane-grass (Zygochloa), as well as floodplain areas vegetated with lignum (Muehlenbeckia florulenta).

The nest is built by the female on or near the ground, and is typically well hidden in tussocks, against a bank or low in a bush.