Sentence examples for upland environments from inspiring English sources

Although small in comparison with lycopods, Calamitesis grew in profusion in drier, more upland environments.

On the flip side, the pachycephalosaurs and their giant bony heads seem to have favoured upland environments.

They also favoured upland environments, where they grew tall and possessed tiny scalelike leaves and cones similar to modern conifers.

In the Southern Hemisphere a cold-climate flora, typified by seed ferns, dominated upland environments and became a source of coal deposits as well.

Upland environments, forests, and plains tend to experience erosion or decomposition of organic remains, so remains from these environments are rarely preserved in the geologic record.

Tidal creek ecosystems integrate the coastal landscape by linking upland environments to the coastal ocean.

Charcoal production and its related consequences for the upland environment are well known due to historical and palaeoenvironmental research.

In summary, the Southern Prealps illustrates the sensitivity of the upland environment to land use changes that occurred during the last 150 years.

These results quantify for the first time the significance of wind action in the erosion of peat in a UK upland environment.

In contrast to the lowland deltaic Red Beds of Texas, the Bromacker deposits are thought to have represented an upland environment with no aquatic species.

The blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae [50] is a major cause of yield loss in rice, particularly in the drought-prone upland environment where plants suffer from a combination of both water stress and disease.