Sentence examples for xeric environment from inspiring English sources
Osmotic adjustment and more elastic cell walls helped the plants to cope with a more xeric environment on NE-facing slope.
Earlier work in the forest-steppe ecotone of Mongolia has shown that Larix sibirica trees at forest edges grow faster than in the forest interior, as the more xeric environment at the edge promotes self-thinning and edges are preferentially targeted by selective logging and livestock grazing.
We hypothesize that Asteraceae species at this ecological protected area (REPSA) will show anatomical traits for avoiding or tolerating stress, the aim of this study was to characterize the foliar anatomy of a sample of 52 species belonging to 41 genera and 13 tribes of Asteraceae living in the xeric environment of this reserve.
Xeric environment was tested to see if its origin was associated with increased diversification in NAm Psoraleeae against the null hypothesis of no increase in diversification rates across the tribe.
In this case the tree length was 2, illustrating two changes from mesic to xeric environment at the base of the lineages leading to Psoralidium and Pediomelum (see Figure 1).
We used a set comprising the last 1000 trees from the Bayesian (BEAST) posterior distribution based on the combined dataset to test the hypothesis of xeric environment acting as a key innovation.
For instance, the ovate leaves of C. parviflorus unsuitable for xeric environments are protected by a dense tomentum of stellate hairs.
Some populations of semi-aquatic species can be observed in xeric environments (e.g. Notechis scutatus [25]), but we emphasize that we selected the most typical Habitat for a given species, usually taking into account the location of the populations analysed for Hct in the literature.
Pediomelum and Psoralidium live in xeric environments while other NAm Psoraleeae are in more mesic habitats.
Agaves are succulent monocotyledonous plants native to xeric environments of North America.
However, some species are adapted to live in remarkably different habitats, such as xeric environments (e.g. Ch. junonianus (Svent).
