Sentence examples for underground forest from inspiring English sources
Yet, in many regions, a vast "underground forest" of tree stumps, roots, and seeds with the potential to rapidly restore vegetation cover exists.
The result was a stream of dramatic installations, from the fairground circle created by the Japanese designer Minju Kim to an underground forest of tree-like clothing from Jack Davey.
The root system of the chopped down trees remained alive under the ground – Rinaudo describes it as an "underground forest" – it just needed to be pruned and allowed to grow.
After several years working on famine relief and conventional but unsuccessful tree planting, Rinaudo had an insight: he noticed that scattered across much of the landscape were stumps or seedlings of trees that make up what he calls an underground forest ready to rise above ground with only a little care and protection.
In addition to its local benefits for farmers and for water management, regrowing the underground forest at a large scale serves as a carbon sink as well, and could therefore be an important part of managing the effects of global warming.
Brazil: Global Meat Demand Plows Up Vast 'Underground Forest' reports Autumn Spanne at the Daily Climate.
The underground forests of southern Africa are not only extensive - they are also diverse.
But in the underground forests beneath the savannahs of southern Africa and South America, it's an experience open to all.
Most recently, researchers have hit upon another potential key factor in the origin and rapid growth of the savannahs - one that also led to the origin of the underground forests.
Ecologically, Gastrodia species are saprophyte (Leou [2000]), growing underground of forest or bamboo grove with richness litter and obtaining carbohydrates and nutrients from its symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi, including Armillaria mellea and other microbial species (Cha and Igarashi [1995]).
More than ten minutes spent in this underground crystal forest can be perilous for anything not made of magma and gypsum.
