Sentence examples for that gopher from inspiring English sources

This is in accord with the observation of Andersen and MacMahon (1985) that gopher activities had covered up to 2% of the ground surface with pre-Mount St Helens 1980 soil in the first 4 months after the 1980 eruption and with those of Kyoo et al. (2005) where soil turnover in the upper 50 cm by gophers occurs in only 40 100 years on California hillslopes.

Can sportscasters please make the slightest effort to wear their journalistic hats and leave the pom poms home? 5. 60 Years Ago Today I haven't known Ralph Branca for the entire 60 years since he served up that gopher ball to Bobby Thompson, but a good portion of it.

Now that Gopher has been a congressman and Captain Stubing is a host on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, a Christian cable channel, the more subtle nuances of "The Love Boat" may have been forgotten.

It seems from this that gophers shove the spoil their digging creates in an uphill direction slightly more often than in a downhill one, though why they do so is unclear.To find out if that behaviour might be enough to create mounds, Dr Gabet built a computer model which started with a landscape that varied in height just a little, and randomly.

These spatial and temporal patterns imply that gophers should be able to churn the biomantle on approximately century timescales and should fully resurface the meadow areas in similar timescales.

Some suggested causes have persisted since the late 19th century, such as the idea that gophers or termites created them or that they are formed by the accumulation of wind-blown sediments around clumps of vegetation.

Furthermore, barn owls nesting in areas with higher proportions of perennial crops consumed more gophers and fewer voles, many of which were juveniles, suggesting that gophers are more abundant and a more important part of barn owl diet in perennial crop areas.

We studied tap-rooted forbs, as it has been shown that gophers generally prefer these over fibrous rooted grasses [51], [52], [53].

Andersen & MacMahon [31] found that gophers may consume more than 30% of total belowground annual primary productivity in Utah meadows, where they occurred at densities lower than the mean density observed in California grasslands [32].

Repeated measures ANOVAs across all 9 trials demonstrate that gophers: 1) ate more island root material than mainland material (F1,16 = 19.3, P<0.001), 2) cached more island root material than mainland material (F1,16 = 6.6, P = 0.021), and 3) declined more mainland root material than island material (F1,16 = 13.6, P = 0.002).

This is a plant that gophers seem to dislike.