Sentence examples for the study of tree from inspiring English sources

The method they used to do this sleuthing is called dendrochronology — the study of tree rings to understand the past.

The study of tree community dynamics may help improve our understanding of forest ecosystem function.

The study of tree growth, led by Dr. Ram Oren, an ecologist at Duke, concluded that previous estimates of forests' carbon-absorbing abilities were "unduly optimistic".

The study of tree leaf aerodynamics is useful to tree protection, solar panel design and development of new power generation technology.

Indeed, one of the Science report's co-authors, Tom Swetnam, a specialist in the study of tree rings at the University of Arizona, has long studied the influence of climate on historical fire patterns.

Glaciers have been in this stretch of the northern Rockies for around 7,000 years and the study of tree ring data and piles of rocks left behind by shifting glaciers show there were around 150 of the ice formations in the Glacier national park area in 1850.

"I was shocked at the length of the droughts I was finding," said Lisa Graumlich, a professor of dendrochronology--the study of tree rings--at the University of Arizona who began performing research in the Sierra eight years ago.

These serve as a delightful reminder of how architecture itself derives, in part, from the study of trees and plants.

Dendrology literally translates as "the study of trees" and integrates morphology, phenology, ecology, biogeography, and the natural history of tree species.

"Sadly, it may be the most popular tree in Moscow," said Lilian S. Plotnikova, the chief of the department of dendrology -- that's the study of trees -- at the Central Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

A professor emeritus of forestry, he joined the faculty in 1936 to teach courses in forest utilization, wood anatomy and dendrology -- the study of trees.