Sentence examples for stand of plants from inspiring English sources

And finally, a dense stand of plants simply looks prettier than bare soil.

Native Americans and non-Indians harvest wild rice by canoeing into a stand of plants, and bending the ripe grain heads with wooden sticks called knockers, so as to thresh the seeds into the canoe.

Large stands of plants or trees of the holly family (Ilex paraguariensis) grow throughout the country, and the leaves are harvested and dried to produce maté, a tealike beverage.

Early cultivators had to notice among their stands of plants variants in which the nutritious kernels were at least partially exposed, or whose ears held together better, or that had more rows of kernels, and they had to selectively breed them.

Stands of plants intermediate between B. integrifolia and B. marginata have been recorded near Mallacoota in East Gippsland.

In addition to leaf phenotypes, stand counts of plants in the row (count) were also made.

Slope failures were mapped at 1 10 000 scale for stands of planted exotic forest, areas of exotic forest cutover, indigenous forest, indigenous secondary regrowth, and pasture.

We located eight pairs of adjacent, similarly aged (∼60 yr) stands of planted red pine and naturally regenerated hardwood forests on previous agricultural fields.

More specifically, several recent studies have also investigated the utility of LiDAR data to predict stem volume in stands of planted P. radiata (Chen and Zhu 2013; Gonzàlez-Ferreiro 2012; Stone et al. 2011; Watt and Watt 2013; Watt et al. 2013).

The area surrounding the site comprises ridges and hill slopes dominated by exotic pasture grasses and mostly fenced-off riparian areas with mixtures of naturally regenerating indigenous forest species and small stands of planted exotic trees.

The estimated mean annual growth rate of the DK stand, based on external DBH measurement of a quadrat selected without size bias, (5.6 mm year−1) is only 0.7 mm year−1 slower than the mean of 25 stands of planted kauri surveyed by Steward ([2011]) (Table 2).