Sentence examples for trees compete from inspiring English sources

As the forests reemerge, they do so in ways that often stifle growth, as young trees compete for root and branch space.

The sound of a burbling stream greets visitors as they enter the blocklong lobby, where a stone waterfall and bamboo trees compete for attention with more than two dozen objets d'art.

Thus, the serpent in Eden talks to Eve, and Balaam's ass not only speaks but also seeks to avoid an angel, unseen by Balaam, that is blocking the road, while trees compete for kingship in the celebrated parable of Jotham in Judges.

Initially height growth may replace diameter growth as individual trees compete for growing space and dominance.

This period of accelerated growth may obscure climatic signals and often coincides with high attrition rates as young trees compete for limited resources.

Combining specific site effects (Seydack et al. [2011]; Seydack et al. [2012]) and spatially explicit responses to competition, as in the present study, may provide improved understanding of how individual trees compete for resources, including nutrients, water and light.

Allen says that for forests in the western U.S., mechanical thinning and prescribed thinning by fire are good remedies to reduce the number of trees competing for water.

The deployment, by far the largest to date, is seen as a crucial test of the tree's ability to go it alone in wild forests full of predators and other species of trees competing for sunlight and nutrients.

He met me at the airport, and we drove for an hour or so to his village — an isolated community where a profusion of mango, almond, orange, banana, guava, and mimosa trees competed with a profusion of unbagged household garbage.

He met me at the airport, and we drove for an hour or so to his village an isolated community where a profusion of mango, almond, orange, banana, guava, and mimosa trees competed with a profusion of unbagged household garbage.

This enables the C. mopane trees to compete successfully with herbaceous plants and to prevent their establishment at high tree densities.