Like a beautiful woman I could not force from my mind — an extremely tall, rather dominant beautiful woman — the 102-story Empire State Building became an obsession.
That's because the dominant tall reed there, Phragmites australis, is an aggressive invader in restoration efforts elsewhere.
Trees are generally defined as woody plants more than 6 m tall, having a dominant stem, or trunk, and a definite crown shape.
Moreover, as most small sedge reed species are low-productive and light-demanding, sufficient biomass removal of dominant tall-growing species is required.
Samba may be considered something of a plodder, but he is tall, aggressive and dominant — just what QPR's defence has lacked.
A summer release of dissolved organic species from the dominant tall form Spartina alterniflora, together with elevated temperatures, appears to result in increased SO42- reduction intensity and hence high summer concentrations of ΣH2S in flat sediments.
My real motivation for shaving my head is an insatiable desire to look more dominant, taller, and stronger.
Targets for whom the background had been manipulated to increase their apparent size were judged to appear both taller and more dominant than targets made to appear smaller.
Because of periodic burning, tall grasses have become dominant over large expanses of plateau land, which sometimes contains few, if any, of its original trees.
"An edifice in ruins, it is true, but so tall, so solemn, so dominant of that strange lonely landscape, so out of place in that land of adobe box huts, as to be simply overpowering," was how Charles F. Lummis described Quarai in "The Land of Poco Tiempo" in 1893.
