Bright orange soils blend to verdant green vegetation reaching up to a crystal clear and cloudless cerulean sky.
One of the key technologies Asner uses is known as LiDAR, which employs two powerful lasers to blast through canopy vegetation, reach the forest floor, and return a wealth of information about the forest's structure.
Potassium and silicon were mobile in soils relative to aluminum, but under high rainfall or certain vegetation, translocation by vegetation reached a degree that promoted illite or smectite formation.
Or on that night when he visited a heronry among the sand dunes of Sandy Neck, Barnstable: "The windless air was stagnant and fetid; swarms of stinging midges, deerflies, and mosquitoes attacked at will; and vicious wood-ticks, hanging from the vegetation, reached for me with their clinging claws, and crawled upon my limbs, seeking an opening to bury their heads in my flesh".
Conversely, reference evapotranspiration (ET0 which corresponds to the atmospheric water demand acting on a short grass actively growing that is regarded as a reference vegetation surface) reaches its maximum during the warm season as a response to available energy and atmospheric demand.
Another possible example is the savanna vegetation that reaches the west African coast between Ghana and Nigeria (Savenije 1995; Salzmann and Hoelzmann 2005).
Soil conditions, along with the cool temperatures, windy conditions, and low rainfall limits the vegetation, which reaches a maximum height of 2 m.
When the lamb had nibbled all the vegetation within reach of its vegetal leash, it and the plant it came from both died.
Following a single fire, vegetation cover reached pre-disturbance values within less than 5 years.
