I was reading a book about the ice ages — I like books about America before anyone was here, even Indians; I think a good book would be called "America Before Anyone" — and the author was describing the reforestation of land after the ice caps receded, and she said that different species of trees advanced at different rates.
He lies in the graveyard of Llansantffraed Church, where there are trees on every side, the trees advancing like Birnam Wood.
The tree advances his argument that landscape architecture, even at its most naturalistic, essentially transforms nature into artifice, and that accepting this opens the mind to the extraordinary.
In some cases at high-latitude or high-elevation tree limits, advanced colonization may have already created islands of stunted "krumholtz" individuals that can develop into erect tree form and become reproductively capable with climate warming, e.g., black spruce (Picea mariana) (Laberge et al. 2000; Gamache 2005).
During the survey interval, eastern tree species advanced into the predominantly non-forested ecosystems of central United States.
Despite these potential limitations, single gene trees have advanced the field of cnidarian systematics.
"Travels in the Great Tree of Life" advanced the visiting public's understanding of scientific Trees.
Using probabilistic models and advanced tree building methods, we have been able to build the most comprehensive evolutionary tree of the Rab family that has been reported to date.
In Russia, the tree line has advanced up hills and mountains at 10 metres a year.
Visitors can return on the gondola or hike the new Wilderness Trail, a steep, milelong descent through trees and ferns (advanced hikers only) Opened in 1931, Trees of Mystery features towering redwoods -- some 2,000 years old -- and a museum of Native American artifacts.
