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The vegetation is restricted mostly to the bed of the khor and is reduced during the drought.
The vegetation also provided splints from which the Indians wove baskets, which were considered vital for religious use.
Both sexes help to make a shallow scrape in soil or sand, which they line with vegetation and other debris.
He scrambled up the hill with the vegetation catching and pulling at his clothes.
The vegetation consists of succulent plants, cacti and terrestrial bromeliads, with thorny trees and bushes hitched to a sandy soil.
The arguments centred on the ability of terrestrial vegetation to take up CO2, and retain it in the form of wood, roots and soil carbon.
Global climate change and its impacts on terrestrial vegetation are of major international concern at present.
The river and its surrounding vegetation are home to monitor lizards, terrapins, monkeys, river otters and sea eagles.
But the main barrier is the land itself, an expanse of sun-whitened, heat-hazed bajada telescoping the waist-high vegetation to nothing.
The latter zone refers to the sclerophyllous vegetation designated as Macchia.
Simplistic analyses of changes in vegetation cover probably confused natural temporal variability with long-term degradation.
As far as vegetation is concerned, there are interesting woods of larches, downy oaks, manna ashes, and beeches.
The bits no-one wanted, or which were too big and heavy to cart away would lay there to sink into the vegetation and decay slowly over the years.
After a tooth erupts from the gum cavity, the mammoth uses it in grinding coarse vegetation like grass.
The vegetation today is too sparse to support large herds of mammoths anyway.
Under nearly every square mile of the swamp lie these ducts, though water and vegetation have hidden their scars.
Several small burns rushing towards the river are easily crossed, and the vegetation is symbolic of marshy land, with bog myrtle plentiful.
The vegetation that prevails here is the oyamel forest, which contains medicinal plants, magueys and shrubs covered with moss.
Beneath the dense vegetation are layer upon layer of sand, clay, and limestone that were deposited or created by ancient seas.
It was beautiful, with golden sand and green vegetation further along the beach.
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During the visit three different habitats were studied by sampling the vegetation and aquatic life using quadrates and pond nets respectively.
Chukchi men drive their reindeer in search of vegetation and travel to the edge of the taiga to gather firewood, fish, and hunt sea mammals.
Its tropical gardens are full of rare, luxuriant vegetation and exotic fragrance.
And as native vegetation waned, introduced alien species such as salt cedar and Russian olive have virtually exploded along western rivers.
Ensure that vegetation control is carried out, if rushes, grasses or weeds are competing with young trees.
How we manage the private land between these fragments of remnant vegetation is more important than what we do inside the islands of bushland.
Some of the nutrients are assimilated by vegetation and converted to foliage.
The lousewort grows mostly on north-facing riverbanks because the vegetation is less dense there.
Native vegetation is also celebrated and reintroduced in a range of public parks and institutional gardens in capital cities.
However, from Karadi to Dandi, the land is arid and the vegetation scrubby.
His car rumbled through dense vegetation and weaved back and forth to avoid trees.
It recreates the vegetation and animal life in the Antarctic and Arctic regions.
It was comparable to the other two sites in the composition and structure of both the overstorey vegetation and small mammal communities.
Females hunted for araneid spiders among the dense vegetation bordering the sand in which they nested.
In place of managed turf to the water's edge, plant aquatic vegetation along out-of-play shorelines.
Katy finally broke free of the dry vegetation and hurried off the path and to the guard rail that separated her from Justin.
Cattle and sheep can also introduce disease to other animals and overgraze native vegetation needed by wildlife.
The group launched a three-year study that aims to plant trees, stabilize stream banks with vegetation and riprap, and build sediment ponds.
As vegetation falls to the ground, it slowly decays, providing minerals and nutrients needed for plants, animals and microorganisms.
We measured nest orientation by first locating the opening in the vegetation used by adults to access the nest.
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If riparian vegetation is left undisturbed, organic matter accumulates in the soil and enhances microbial activity.
Nesting areas typically have emergent vegetation to which these birds anchor their nests and open water in which they can forage.
MacArthur studied four species of ant-thrushes in South America and discovered that they used different levels within the vegetation for feeding.
The golden plover breeds in short vegetation on upland heaths and peat bogs and adults also travel each day to feed on nearby pastures.
The vegetation in the marsh shows clear zonation with different species dominating different zones.
Conservation of remnant scrub vegetation is a matter of state and national concern.
The vegetation in the study area consists of a mixed woodland of stone pine and cork oak.
However despite everyone's best efforts, all our forest and remnant vegetation was wiped out.
Over 66,000 people use the trail annually, with more than 1,000 stomping on vegetation and generally wreaking havoc on any given summer day.
The peat soil supports blanket bog vegetation dominated by carpets of Sphagnum mosses, cotton-grasses and heather.
Grasses were also a very conspicuous element of the vegetation and included the attractive Lagurus ovatus.
Over the course of time, landslides, rock movement, and vegetation hid the entrances to the other catacombs.
The vegetation is certainly hardy, it has to be, and there is the expectation of winter rainfalls.
Bearded passages of vegetation cling to steep rock, and the strong Yangtze current spills diagonally along the bottom of the frame.
Below the limestone beds are Campanian grey shales, which are covered by vegetation and could not be sampled, and a thick sequence of limestones.
At present the baby alligator is housed in a small nursery pond, which has been covered with thick vegetation such as small plants and grass.
Like fire and grazing, the haying rejuvenates older grasslands by removing dead vegetation and opening up the grass canopy.
The Jacanas are totally adapted to wetland habitats with floating vegetation like lotus, lily, hydrilla and wetland rushes.
Where vegetation composition is altered and floral richness threatened, the results will ultimately be felt by us all.
Healthy, vigorous perennial grass is the best type of vegetation with which to surround a lagoon.
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Low altitude dry vegetation is found relatively close to the littoral zone where the habitat is characterised by strong droughts.
Verlust watched expectantly, and was rewarded by a wriggle in the vegetation that didn't match the movement of the rest in the soft breeze.
Reestablishment of scrub vegetation on phosphate mines has been attempted with varying success.
Magnificent displays of bluebells are out just now and the ground vegetation also has an abundance of foxgloves, heath bedstraw and wood sorrel.
Other discrete vegetation types associated with the caatinga are distinctive palm stands.
When I walked through the site earlier this year, lush vegetation was sprouting among the rusting iron columns in places.
In shorter, sparser vegetation or near the bare dirt around woodchuck or gopher mounds, such signs will be rare.
Finally, mangrove vegetation recolonized the area and the overlying soil developed.
If this is the case, then the new vegetation is at least partly the result of local farmers seizing the moment to reclaim the land.
The country's vegetation varies with trees and thick bush in the south and near-desert conditions in the north.
This creates ideal conditions for grasses, spinifex and other vegetation to grow, providing fuel for big bushfires.
There is no vegetation here and the swirling winds are almost as intense as the khamsins in the Sahara.
The study area is subalpine tundra, and primary vegetation is shrubby willow.
The wildfire quickly spreads, consuming the thick, dried-out vegetation and almost everything else in its path.
Ponies play a crucial role in the area's ecology by eating vast amounts of vegetation and preventing the landscape turning into a wilderness.
Nests are made of grass, and are usually lashed to cattails, bulrushes, or other emergent vegetation close to the water.
The natural vegetation is characterised by small karroid bushes, hardy geophytes, and succulents.
Atlantic white cedars scattered amid the other vegetation remain stunted as long as the water is deep, growing no more than four feet tall.
They vary in color from light tan to reddish and tend to blend in well with the soil and vegetation in their chosen habitat.
The path would deter people from trampling a wider area of vegetation on their route to the gorge lookout.
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He hoped that building ponds would give ducks resting space and ample habitat for aquatic vegetation to grow.
The field was plowed just before planting, but natural vegetation was allowed to regrow during the experiment.
There are large areas of native vegetation featuring kanuka, manuka, kohuhu, coprosmas and olearia species.
If you are lucky enough to visit in the summer when the rata is flowering the deep green vegetation is brightened by patches of rich red.
A few types of vegetation are widespread in this saltwater-influenced area.
The Cactaceae are among the flowering plants that dominate the vegetation of arid and semiarid zones of the New World.
They rip vegetation from the ground and can cause damage to areas where there are large numbers of geese.
That one had insects, grit and vegetation perfectly condensed but coloured a deep raspberry.
The location is in a heavily forested area obscured by vegetation and ground debris.
The first thing you should do is remove all unwanted vegetation from your planting area.
February is the month when there is no vegetation to cover this awful advertisement for the town.
A strip of vegetation provides food, shelter and habitat for wildlife, and adds oxygen to the water.
The vegetation of Lower California makes up in bristliness what it lacks in luxuriance.
Light weight and enormous toes enable them to negotiate rank vegetation by simply walking over the top.
The original forest vegetation of the area consisted mainly of woodland of valonia oak.
It is most prominent at this time of year, after the snow and before the rampant vegetation covers the worse excesses.
Structural characteristics of brigalow vegetation at the start of each transect were measured and recorded.
Aspergillus fumigatus is a common fungus that grows on soil, plant debris and rotting vegetation in the autumn and winter.
The weeds and rampant vegetation seem to be dying off, as if the owner has run amok with a weedkiller can a few years too late.
Images of lush green vegetation slowly give way to immense black, white, and gray expanses of cooled lava.
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Even with her vegetation obsession, she was unyielding and did not back down from ridicule or teasing.
In places, the jungle-like vegetation surrounds the river so densely it feels like an old Tarzan movie.
The boundary line for private properties is usually where the sandy area ends and the vegetation begins.
These were upsetting photos of effects of people burned by napalm and vegetation devastated by Agent Orange.
There are numerous mythologies in which the God is sacrificed as grain or as vegetation in general to feed the people.
All the depicted vegetation is highly resilient and adaptable to the most hostile surroundings.
Once grass starts sprouting and leaves begin to unfurl on trees, the vegetation gives the world a greenish cast on an overcast day.
Few other vegetation types in the world are so thoroughly treated, and certainly none is so beautifully and multifariously presented.
Further, the dense vegetation and extensive root systems of intact scrub appear to limit invasion by most weedy native or introduced species.
Mudeyes head straight for the cover of vegetation where they are less likely to be found by hungry trout on dinner patrol.
In uncleared areas, Nobbi dragons are common, but in remnant vegetation in central New South Wales, the picture isn't so rosy.
She chased the spider from its web onto adjoining vegetation to which the lead threads of the web were attached.
The male appears to select the site, and both parents build the nest, a mound of muddy tundra vegetation with a depression at the center.
Move slowly, especially through overhanging vegetation and brush, to avoid disturbing nests and hives.
Although adjacent to dense forests altered by silviculture, vegetation in the swale resembles that of boggy pine savannas or flatwoods.
There was little vegetation and a bleak wind blew down from the snows of the high passes.
The natural vegetation on most of it is tall lowland forest, with shorter montane forests at higher elevations.
The organism or biotic factor is essentially vegetation and is the summation of the plant matter reaching the soil.
If the predictions are correct residents can expect pollution levels to triple, vegetation to be destroyed and global warming to speed up.
The water opossum eats primarily crayfish, shrimp, fish, frogs, and possibly aquatic vegetation and fruit.
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The dams are affected by wind and water erosion to various degrees depending on the amount of vegetation cover.
Territory quadrats were the vegetation quadrats sampled at the center of each of 88 territories.
If the vegetation is primarily milfoil, musk grass, pondweed, or naiad, these stocking rates are recommended.
Nonuse quadrats were the 413 vegetation quadrats that fell outside of territories.
The waboom forms part of South Africas fynbos vegetation and lives up to expectations with its adaptations to fire.
So the pack-rat middens are time capsules of local vegetation allowing us to reconstruct what happened.
Effective shading can be provided by trees and other vegetation and exterior or interior shades.
The dust particles also settle on the vegetation and farm plantations affecting and retarding growth of produce.
Mexico's mesophyllic mountain forests are limited to mountainous regions where the vegetation is often covered by clouds.
Once you have the frame constructed remove any weeds or grass inside the frame so this vegetation does not grow up through your propagation bed.
Mountain beavers live in small colonies, occupying areas with plentiful green vegetation and cover.
The vegetation varies, from beach grass and Virginia creeper stabilizing the dunes to eastern red cedar and even prickly pear.
Typically, ticks wait on vegetation and jump on your shoes, socks, or pants when you walk by.
The earth under the vibration exciter was cleared of vegetation and debris and the exciter was placed directly on the cleared earth.
Undesirable vegetation in a pond can be controlled mechanically, biologically, or chemically.
Flooded banks with green vegetation are prime areas to attract forage fish and predatory bass.
A bank of lush vegetation separates the tree-lined driveway on one side from its boundary, which is defined by the meandering river Deelagh.
The generally immature nature of the palaeosols indicates that most vegetation colonized newly deposited fluvial sediments.
Nests are built in cactuses or thorny vegetation or hanging from branches, and can be up to two meters long.
When vegetation is light, the right hand can release the shaft when maximally extended, allowing the slasher to pivot at the left shoulder.
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Dense thickets of shrubs can have a strong impact on vegetation development, often reducing tree invasion for decades.
There was a pull, a peaceful power, in that simple sound, and its strength bolstered and vitalized the vegetation perhaps even more than more ordinary methods of caretaking.
The high plinth of the temple is a virtual tapestry of sculpture, with bands of dancing figures, animals, vegetation and other objects coming to life on its surface.
Almost entirely subterranean, colonial tuco-tucos rarely leave their burrows except for brief forays to collect the grassy vegetation on which they feed.
Landcare representatives say whilst the black bean is a local species it is not native to the coast and goes against Council's vegetation management plans.
But this warbler is usually associated with tangled vegetation near water or with reedbeds containing alders and an undergrowth including bramble, nettle and willowherb.
The low number of contacts with the surrounding vegetation may be important in reducing the probability that smaller arboreal predators will access the nest tree.
I used to live opposite a pristine tract of natural vegetation that turned into a housing development with the accompanying sounds of human habitation.
Sites were selected randomly beforehand using the results of the winter pasture inventory, and they cover the different bioclimatic vegetation zones evenly.
In the summer of 1999, the overstory vegetation was resurveyed.
Controlling aquatic vegetation is an ongoing struggle, and invasive non-native water plants such as giant salvinia, water hyacinth and hydrilla are a big part of the problem.
Its dried-up canals have been taken over by the Typha australis bulrush, said Asuquo-Obot, who has been doing research on the macrophytic vegetation of large lakes.
Thus, downwind males could be located higher in the vegetation to increase their chances of intercepting a pheromone plume and locating a receptive female.
By employing pollen analysis, scientists have been able to reconstruct past vegetational communities and analyse how those vegetation patterns have changed over time.
Because of its sheerness and direct exposure to the afternoon sun, the side facing the lake is bare of vegetation except for some rock-hugging lichens.
Water snails don't eat living plants, just decaying vegetation and algae.
This increases insulation and avoids the need for surface treatment, while the vegetation absorbs rain like a sponge, reducing or at least delaying run-off.
The path for our group of six is being carved through tangles of vines and vegetation one machete hack at a time.
Thick aquatic vegetation disperses the river water into numerous channels.
Clear all grass or other vegetation from the area that you have selected.
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Date palms, planted originally by Afghan camel drivers in the late 1800s, have now almost overtaken the natural vegetation of pale cajeputs and pretty river gums.
The main vegetation here comprises large tracts of tropical rain forests, semi-evergreen as well as moist deciduous forests, plantations and grasslands.
They are searching for abnormalities in the soil, replanted vegetation and other signs of a rogue grave.
Because of the scarcity of water and succulent vegetation in the desert, rural gardeners often find everything from skunks to javelina to coyotes nibbling at their crops.
Telegrams from various other parts of the country reported heavy falls of snow during the night and it was feared young lambs and early vegetation had suffered considerably.
White-tailed deer, beaver, and red fox are content with just about any vegetation and width, whereas wild turkey and wood duck prefer forested buffers over 35 feet wide.
Failure of regular vegetation control caused Ocean Way to be partly covered by overgrowth of bush on the sea side of the road, causing a danger to road users.
The habitat of S. lineatus can be divided into microhabitats differing in vegetation structure, which determines the amount of solar radiation penetrating the vegetation.
The herbaceous vegetation would have been rich and diverse, including, for example, cattail, buttonbush, numerous sedges, grasses and rushes, and bushy willows and alder.
He rappels down near-vertical rock faces hundreds of feet above the Pacific, scales tall palms, and slogs through lush vegetation into deep valleys.
Dense vegetation may conceal the nests and reduce the risk of predation.
Primary vegetation shielding the nest was dwarf live oak and saw palmetto.
The sand dunes had been nearly bare of vegetation and composed of completely open and mobile sand until 1982, because of heavy grazing by Bedouin herds.
Subzones are defined by the vegetation typical of mesic environments at low elevations and the dominant growth forms of vegetation in these environments.
Here vegetation tends towards dark and spiky lushness, though Darwin itself is trim, its greenery coiffed, its palm trees serried in wind-ruffled ranks around the shoreline.
Its semi-desert vegetation of grass, shrubs, karoobossies and mesembryanthemums covers the hills and vales, and epitomises the wild and free spirit of this land.
The vegetation is overgrown and makes it difficult to see the shoreline.
After a lengthy and difficult approval process, Seymour has obtained permission to clear up to 450 lineal feet of vegetation along any portion of the creek.
Dead, spiky thistles and small wild melons, which even sheep won't eat, are the only vegetation in Mr Grove's moonscape-like fields at Cowra, 250 km west of Sydney.
These non-selective herbicides should not be used at the same site continuously for more than two to three years to allow native vegetation to regrow.
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Therefore, the texture of the bottoms of channels should be made rough with vegetation or riprap, and outlet structures should be properly designed with energy dissipaters.
The Chennapatna taluk is also hilly, but the tree vegetation is smaller.
Canopy vegetation over ancient sites displayed changes in color and reflectivity that were visible only when captured by satellite instruments in near-infrared spectrums.
Though the earth is inert soil, if you plant and nourish it properly, it explodes with a plethora of vegetation capable of sustaining ever-increasing amounts of life.
Dotted with green islets and set in a spectacular lunar landscape, Lake Myvatn is notable for its luxuriant vegetation and for providing a home for 45 nesting bird species.
Rainfall in arid regions is typically seasonal and often intense and may carry an atypically high sediment load, due in part to sparse vegetation in sediment source areas.
Kelp gulls used a wide variety of habitats, including areas with different slopes and degrees of vegetation cover located on island or mainland sites.
The herbaceous vegetation was best developed at that time of year.
Roses and cynipid galls occur along the banks of the Severn River above the tree line because of clay deposits, heat, and rafts of vegetation carried north by the river.
Those sort of recalcitrants he mentions have been frustrated by the current native vegetation laws since they were brought in six years ago, and some have simply ignored them.
Over the six decades of the lab's operation, radioactivity has leaked in unknown quantities into the water and vegetation surrounding the facility.
Having bare feet also made it easier to grip when following a ridge and, since there was not the faintest trace of vegetation anywhere, there was no danger from thorns.
Wildlife managers say mute swans are destroying significant amounts of submerged aquatic vegetation and chasing other shorebirds away from their nesting sites.
But Boase said they are seeing significant environmental impact, like soil and vegetation degradation, from people walking through the undesignated trail.
The wrybill's close cousin, the banded dotterel, favours the sides of rivers, lakes, open land with sparse vegetation and coastal lagoons and beaches.
Its sheet of water falls smoothly into a shallow canal that continues the lines of the building, and reflects both it and the rich vegetation of the park.
The mudslides were set off on Christmas Day after a downpour fell on hillsides that had been stripped of vegetation by wildfires in October and November.
The world had become a barren place thanks to the bombing, devoid of anything similar to vegetation or existence, save for a few spots of land that had escaped the war.
The amount of remaining vegetation also is variable depending on the amount of remnant bushland within reserves, state forests, or leasehold land.
The lack of knowledge stemmed from the fact that cats are active mainly at night and almost impossible to see in the dense vegetation where they usually live.
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A second problem is that heavily used Army training areas are becoming bare of vegetation because of constant traffic from heavy equipment and foot soldiers.
Parabolic dunes are formed when the wind causes a blowout, that is, begins to gouge sand out from around a patch of vegetation that has weakened its grip.
The dune vegetation included sea oats, sea grape, and beach morning glory.
In time the word shed its literal association with thick vegetation and was applied generally to any country, open or treed, beyond the settled coast.
Coastal heath vegetation is particularly colourful this wildflower season.
A ring of mountains covered with lush vegetation frames the city.
The objective of this study was to characterize the vegetation of forested floodplain wetlands along a 66 km stretch of river within the upper Passaic River watershed.
Many wetlands around the world are characterized by shallow water, dense vegetation in the littoral zones, no significant riverine inflow and minimal circulation.
Here the caged stone is simply a uniform external layer, but its monolithic appearance will be eventually transformed by vegetation implanted within it.
Their nest is a scrape on a grassy ledge or a saucer of vegetation on the ground, lined with softer material.
Examples of acid vegetation include specific plant associations dominated by heath, sphagnum moss and many other acidophile plants.
Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits.
The fontinal cliff vegetation occupies moist rocky banks, damp ledges, and dripping rocks.
Pollen analysis shows a prevalence of grasses and sedges within a more complicated vegetation mosaic.
The wildlife and vegetation forms often lead to high endemism because of the severe soil and microclimate characteristics.
If heather and other vegetation is left for too long, a large volume of dry and combustible material builds up.
There they gorged on birds, fish, and vegetation and found a small freshwater spring.
Here the transition from the desert vegetation of the plains to the lush vegetation of the mist belts is abrupt.
Until 2006, this species was known only from one book about the vegetation of Montserrat.
These studies indicate the vegetation of the island may be changing rapidly.
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In 1997, the United States Navy contracted a vegetation survey that identified about 280 species of terrestrial vascular plants on Diego Garcia.
The Levant became more arid and the forest vegetation retreated, to be replaced by steppe.
Although the vegetation varies a bit more, similar habitat is occupied by golden eagles in Mexico.
Territorial marking consists of urinating on trees, vegetation and rocks, and depositing faeces in conspicuous places.
In tundra, the vegetation is composed of dwarf shrubs, sedges and grasses, mosses, and lichens.
There is a natural pattern of accumulation of fuel and wildfire which varies depending on the nature of vegetation and terrain.
Tundra climates as a rule are hostile to woody vegetation even where the winters are comparatively mild by polar standards, as in Iceland.
The land was cleared of vegetation and buildings and by the spring of 1939 several wooden huts were present.
They secrete chemicals into the soil to prevent competing vegetation from growing.
Feral goats have caused serious damage to native vegetation on the Galapagos archipelago.
However, this requires the removal of unwanted vegetation such as wild plants.
No points of attachment exist for algae, so vegetation based habitat is not established.
Hags are too steep and unstable for vegetation to establish itself, so they continue to erode unless restorative action is taken.
The rocks formed at that time were stained red by iron oxides, the result of intense heating by the sun of a surface devoid of vegetation cover.
Shore habitats span from the upper intertidal zones to the area where land vegetation takes prominence.
Even though the Azores look very green and sometimes wild, the vegetation has been extremely altered.
Reforestation efforts with native laurissilva vegetation have been done successfully in many parts of the Azores.
The vegetation of Spain is varied due to several factors including the diversity of the relief, the climate and latitude.
A change in the type, distribution and coverage of vegetation may occur given a change in the climate.
Larger, faster or more radical changes, however, may result in vegetation stress, rapid plant loss and desertification in certain circumstances.
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During the coldest period of the Last Glacial Maximum vegetation at this location was dominated by Alpine herbs in wide open surfaces.
The global warming that followed caused a slow change in vegetation towards a sparsely distributed vegetation dominated by Nothofagus species.
At that time a cold reversal caused a replacement of much of the arboreal vegetation with Magellanic moorland and Alpine species.
In the absence of disturbance, a climax vegetation cover develops that prevents the establishment of other species.
Within these broad biomes are more specific habitats with varying climate types, temperature regimes, soils, altitudes and vegetation types.
Much of the solar energy that reaches rural areas is consumed by evaporation of water from vegetation and soil.
Factors such as the type of soil, vegetation present, and altitude have no effect on the areas that moles choose to inhabit.
These birds mainly occupy dense vegetation in damp environments near lakes, marshes or rivers.
Farther north, the vegetation turns to lower forest consisting of dense scrub.
It is the dominant plant in most heathland and moorland in Europe, and in some bog vegetation and acidic pine and oak woodland.
In between, there is a convergence, where vegetation patterns such as sahel and steppe dominate.
The lack of vegetation will result in the loss of oxygen in the atmosphere, and animal life will become extinct.
Intentional burning of vegetation was used to mimic the effects of natural fires that tended to clear forest understories.
The vegetation of the region is mostly tropical but differences in topography, soil and climatic conditions increase species diversity.
The wet season is a time when air quality improves, freshwater quality improves, and vegetation grows significantly.
Because of this, some species of plants and vegetation die due to the excess salt.
Research shows that vegetation in most of the Amazon basin has changed a very small amount since glacial times.
Samples from the megadrought times had little pollen or charcoal, suggesting sparse vegetation with little to burn.
When plants are detected, the flippers are used to scoop the vegetation toward the manatee's lips.
The Trewartha system attempts to redefine the middle latitudes to be closer to vegetation zoning and genetic climate systems.
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Dinosaur evolution after the Triassic follows changes in vegetation and the location of continents.
The remaining vegetation types consist of grasslands, the majority of which are tussock.
The density and type of vegetation coverage affects solar heat absorption, water retention, and rainfall on a regional level.
It monitors the portion of total precipitation used to nourish vegetation over a certain area.
The Mainz Sand Dunes area is now a nature reserve with a unique landscape and rare steppe vegetation for this area.
The highlands are characterised by the typical vegetation of the whole range of the Italian Alps.
Lichens and mosses are two of the main forms of vegetation in the Arctic and are highly susceptible to airborne pollutants and heavy metals.
Small towns and villages are scattered across the forest, and because its vegetation is so dense, some remote areas are still unexplored.
The interior of the state is covered mostly by the dry thorny scrub vegetation called caatinga.
Temperature also varies according to elevation, distance from the coast, and type of vegetation or land use.
The total vegetation density, including trees, shrubs, herbs and seedlings, has been estimated at 240,000 individuals per hectare.
Tree vegetation extends as far south as the Isla de los Estados, Navarino Island, and the northern part of Hoste Island.
Along the coast the soil is sandier and while the vegetation is still tropical, species are different than in the interior rainforest.
The beach areas are dominated by ground vegetation which is able to tolerate the high salinity of the soil.
The Aztecs were interested in the area's vegetation and crops such as cedars, fruit, cotton, cacao, corn, beans and vanilla.
Further inland and along the Gulf of California the vegetation is scarce and temperatures are very high during the summer months.
West of the ridge, the land flattens out and the vegetation turns to scrub.
The area is drained by a large number of rivers and has formed a characteristic vegetation known as muskeg.
When sheep graze, vegetation is chewed into a mass called a bolus, which is then passed into the rumen, via the reticulum.
Wild vegetation runs from tropical rainforest to arid grasslands with cactus, with cypress trees along rivers and other surface water.
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Most of the vegetation in these areas is arid grassland with desert plants such as nopal.
North of this is fresh water swamp, containing different vegetation from the salt water swamp, and north of that is rain forest.
Given the geology of the province and its different climates, there is an established number of large areas of vegetation in Quebec.
Reintroduction of indigenous vegetation will help with the degradation of the land.
Local farmers have also been criticised by environmentalists for burning off vegetation to heat their tobacco barns.
The main agents responsible for the deposition of siliceous sinter are algae and other vegetation in the water.
This is then generally covered with soil, and vegetation is planted to help consolidate the material.
It colonises ground with an open vegetation structure but is slow to colonise healthy, well managed heather stands.
Smooth slopes, lacking vegetation at higher levels but also devoid of any real interest, run down toward Burnmoor and the head of Wastwater.
The female chooses a nest site, where she scrapes a shallow hollow in the loose soil, sand, gravel, or dead vegetation in which to lay eggs.
Its coal seams were formed from the vegetation of tropical swampy forests in the Carboniferous period over 300 million years ago.
It is the southernmost outlier of this vegetation type, which is common to highlands in Scotland and Scandinavia.
Palynology also allows scientists to infer the climatic conditions from the vegetation present in an area thousands or millions of years ago.
It is a well camouflaged bird, it is usually shy and conceals itself close to ground vegetation and flushes only when approached closely.
Once an air mass moves away from its source region, underlying vegetation and water bodies can quickly modify its character.
The vegetation on this plateau is chiefly vaal and rosyntjiebos, with areas of swarthaak and Karroo veld.
In the turbid state, the development of submerged vegetation is prevented by low underwater light levels.
The Plumed Whistling Duck eats by cropping vegetation rather than diving in water.
In this paper, we summarize long-term changes in submerged vegetation in the Green and Yampa rivers in Dinosaur National Park, Colorado and Utah.
We measured molt habitat vegetation with 17 quadrats at molting sites for Wood Thrushes.

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