It has many similarities to the Blackbelt prairies and the barrens of Tennessee and Kentucky. |
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Much of this zone is underlain by permafrost and is the most southern Subarctic barrens in the world. |
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The pine barrens of New Jersey is the northernmost range of 109 southern plant species. |
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Therefore, 10 percent could be used most effectively to alienate traditional fishing grounds, leaving vast areas of non-productive barrens. |
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After exploring gentle mountain slopes, taiga flatland and highland barrens, we suddenly reached the plateau's edge. |
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The other is a mosaic of sand barrens and woodland and in this case, poor soil has probably slowed succession. |
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This species, typical of mesic to dry-mesic upland forests, has wind-dispersed seeds and evidently readily invades barrens. |
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I have to make some more somehow, I have to go even further out into the barrens to find things to talk about. |
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The prairie barrens occur on limestone with shallow clayey soils that are well-drained. |
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A major characteristic of barrens is the presence of many herbaceous species typical of tallgrass prairie and ecotonal habitats intermediate between prairie and forest. |
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Fire suppression, development and conversion of land to agricultural use have destroyed many of the pine barrens and oak savannas where the lupine grows. |
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Despite the low relief associated with the river, the undisturbed barrens, bogs and forests along the Shelburne create dramatic, wild landscapes. |
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Rolling hills, jagged rock barrens, steaming swamps, and dusty grey ashlands all appear crisp and clean to the eye and have an amazing amount of variety. |
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Along its course, it takes the traveller from wilderness barrens to the edge of civilization. |
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This river passes through a land of barrens, bogs and boreal forest, one of the last remaining wilderness areas on the Island of Newfoundland. |
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Vast stretches of land are occupied by the arctic barrens, the great plains, the forests, and the western mountains. |
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However, through the core of the barrens a headwind-driven flame reached a height of one to 1.5 meters and ascended some small shrubs, saplings, and standing-dead trees. |
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Vegetation in the headwaters is characterized by exposed, scrubby, dwarf-shrub barrens with pockets of poor growth forest. |
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For both fires, portions of the barrens sample area were burned by the backfire flame while other portions were burned by a more intense headfire. |
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I find the ecological barrens of the Euro-countryside to be depressing. |
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Dry barrens offer an exceptional opportunity to examine fire effects on community structure, composition, and diversity patterns in savannalike natural communities. |
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They encompass 2,400 square miles of wooded mountains, high-elevation bogs and pine barrens, replete with winding rivers and spectacular waterfalls. |
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Galloping through the tall trees in forest woodlands or winding our way slowly over miles of alien, stony-gray barrens, we came to know a place apart from our comfort zones. |
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He thought of the bliss the two kids had, him and Unico, as they raced across the barrens plains, past the sign, and darting through the stone forest. |
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The caribou again move northward as early as late February and return to the barrens. |
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In part, the barrens exist because repeated advances of glaciers scraped the rock bare. |
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A loving pig is yanked over the pine barrens, past Shinnecock, Conscience Point, then adrift over the shipless Atlantic. |
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Grasses, occasional prostrate willows, and mat-forming dryas occur in patches in the uplands and are the dominant vegetation in the polar barrens. |
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Some ducks living in the marshes become very shy and retiring at this season, skulking in the reeds, but geese nesting in the Arctic barrens continue to walk about over the tundra, feeding. |
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Pitcher plants are found in a wide range of habitats with poor soil conditions, from pine barrens to sandy coastal swamps, and rely on carnivory to obtain nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus. |
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Along with the factors mentioned above, this freeze-thaw cycle sets the tundra apart from two ecosystems frequently found adjacent to it the icy polar barrens on the one hand and the evergreen boreal forest on the other. |
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Its pristine natural condition and diverse natural features, such as barrens, forests, lakes and rapids, combine to create a scenic beauty of great majesty. |
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Low' value moose habitat includes most other landscapes including areas of high elevation, closed canopy black spruce forests, recent burns, and rock barrens. |
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It is risky to assume that the balance between kelp beds, barrens and urchin recruitment can be managed in a way that is sufficiently dependable to provide a consistent source of subadults for transplantation. |
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Is it difficult to survive in the barrens? |
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Evidence of glaciation, such as ribbed moraines, striations, large erratics and the rock drumlin formation of Mount Sylvester, is an integral part of the barrens landscape. |
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The river would join an elite group of the most historic and beautiful rivers in Canada, in places ranging from the barrens of the Northwest Territories to the heartland of southern Ontario. |
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The Kazan and Thelon sweep majestically out of spruce-lined valleys, winding across the barrens through vast shimmering lakes set like mirrors in the treeless tundra, finally emptying into Baker Lake. |
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North Pacific areas that do not have sea otters often turn into urchin barrens, with abundant sea urchins and no kelp forest. |
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These sites, also known as barrens, are often adjacent to cedar glades and in many instances grade floristically into them, as was the case at the three prairie study sites. |
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Dispersion patterns and habitat associations of Rufous-sided Towhees, Common Yellowthroats, and Prairie Warbiers in a southeastern Massachusetts pine barrens. |
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The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit. |
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Sea urchins, for example, can reduce entire areas to urchin barrens. |
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Late September is one of the best times for roadside botanizing in the Pine Barrens. |
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If more people could experience the beauty of a Pine Barrens gentian or bog asphodel in bloom, there would be a lot more support for these disappearing species. |
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Tyler's work with the Barrens topminnow stands as a shining example of her hard work and dedication to the protection and recovery of rare species. |
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As a result, numbers of Barrens topminnows have declined drastically. |
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