Sentence examples for stands of vegetation from inspiring English sources

Desert locusts live most years as ordinary grasshoppers, munching scattered stands of vegetation and keeping to themselves.

The giant reed is similar to a tall grass or thin bamboo, but grows quickly and can take over native stands of vegetation, block the streambed, hurts the habitat of native animals, and increases the hazard of wildfires.

The botanical composition and productivity of any mature stand of vegetation is largely determined by competition [ 30].

Sheltered in the Saharan massifs are occasional stands of relict vegetation, often with Mediterranean affinities.

But what really broke the prairie was ending the cycle of wildfires and then draining the land, ditching the sloughs and laying tile to carry away water that was good for wildlife and thick stands of native vegetation but not so good for alien row crops.

Lateral variability of rhizoliths in Type A paleosols, and their close association with fluvial channel-fill sediments suggests they are the roots of grove stands of phreatophytic vegetation that grew within unstable anabranching stream systems.

The effects of dense stands of terrestrial vegetation on local climatic conditions, such as reducing temperatures and desiccation stress, are well-known [30], [31].

This results in stands of marsh vegetation separated by open water (Sasser et al. 1986; Rozas and Reed 1993).

Elaborating on figures published in his paper, Allan says the density of E. chaffeensis-infected tick nymphs 10 in the honeysuckle stands was 25 times higher than in nearby stands of native vegetation, and deer density was 4 times higher.

In areas where honeysuckle was removed, he says the density of E. ewingii-infected tick nymphs was 17 times lower than in nearby stands of honeysuckle vegetation, and deer density was 5 times lower.

Secondly, although the cyclic character of the intervention is addressed by resetting some of the stands of uniform vegetation to pioneer stages, for the intervention to become part of a cyclic strategy, similar measures would need to be designed and implemented within the same river reach in the future.