This means the higher L e values lead to a more sparse root system.
After four years, however, we found significantly higher soil basal respiration in plant communities with smaller leaves and both denser and shallower root systems than in plant communities with taller plants and sparse root systems.
The model allows root system growth strategies involving rapid growth of ephemeral and/or sparse root systems to be distinguished from those involving slower growth and possibly more exhaustive exploitation of local surroundings.
RYAN ADAMS Sparse, stately roots-rock and lyrics chiseled down to eternals — of home and wandering, rain and wind, love and need, chains of love, a river of tears — fill "Ashes & Fire," the first Ryan Adams album since 2008.
Indeed, Western classical music has sunk sparse but firm roots across the Arab world, from a youth orchestra in Algeria to the venerable Cairo Opera House to the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra to the Beirut National Conservatory.
His hair, like cultivated grassland, is lush at the top and sparse at the root.
He was there with the Clash in the late 70s, but has long since returned to his Lubbock roots, and the sparse arrangements on this album bring his supreme vocals to the fore.
Barre Toelken, a folklorist in the American studies department at Utah State University, tells the following story: In 1950, government officials proposed getting rid of prairie dogs on parts of the Navajo Reservation to protect the roots of the sparse desert grasses and thereby maintain some grazing for sheep.
Elsewhere the vegetation is discontinuous and consists of two main types: perennials with huge root systems and sparse aerial parts, often protected by waxy cuticles, thorns, and hairs; and ephemerals with slight root systems and little foliage but with the ability to flower profusely immediately after occasional storms and then to seed quickly and abundantly.
