Sentences with phrase «as deciduous»

The term DECIDUOUS means that trees that are categorized as deciduous lose their leaves, usually in the autumn.
Therefore, the trees found in this natural reserve and native to the Nicoya Peninsula are both evergreen trees such as the imposing Espavel, the unique Cortez Amarillo and the splendid Guacimo Colorado, as well as deciduous trees such as the beautiful Guacimo, the Indio Desnudo and the Pochote.
«That would have favored plants that grew quickly and could take advantage of changing conditions, such as deciduous plants.»

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In warmer lands, such as tropical, subtropical and arid lands, deciduous plants may lose their leaves during dry seasons or during times when there are changes in rainfall.
Most children's baby teeth — also known as primary teeth, deciduous teeth, or milk teeth — emerge in a certain order.
It is because the baby teeth (also known as primary teeth or deciduous teeth) help in chewing solid foods, give shape to the face, help in talking and of course, make the smiles beautiful.
Home to a large proportion of England's deciduous woodland and other types of important and threatened wild areas known as «Priority Habitat», Green Belts are also a haven for wildlife.
Today we recognise various types of forest, such as boreal, deciduous and aspen parkland, each with a distinctive mix of tree species.
As part of his doctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Mitchell studied the chemical attractants for dozens of species of longhorned beetles native to deciduous forests of eastern North America.
Justin Richardson led a study that finds New England's forest soils will store fewer nutrients and metals as climate change prompts deciduous trees to replace evergreen conifers.
Ganzhorn is particularly worried about smaller, high - risk regions such as the coastal forests and the dry deciduous forests in the west, which he notes tend not to receive the attention of conservation organizations who want to maximize their chances of having success stories to bring back to their donors.
Forest soils across New England will store fewer nutrients and metals — some beneficial, some harmful — as climate change prompts maples and other deciduous trees to replace the region's iconic evergreen conifers, a Dartmouth College study finds.
In the «business as usual» case, all of southern Spain turns into desert, deciduous forests invade most of the mountains, and shrubland vegetation replaces most of the deciduous forests in a large part of the Mediterranean basin.
At another, a patch of tall deciduous trees known as the jungle provides cover for covert sexual coupling.
Research published online today in Science shows that deciduous tree leaves, such as those from the maple, aspen, and poplar, suck up far more atmospheric pollutants than previously thought.
An additional 10 to 48 percent of land would see its climate zones disappear, replaced by patterns of temperature and precipitation now occurring elsewhere, such as rain forest becoming savanna or evergreen forest becoming deciduous.
Over the next 100 years, Minnesota's iconic boreal forest and deep snow may change into a deciduous forest with winters warm enough for some precipitation to fall as rain, according to a new U.S. Forest Service assessment of the vulnerability of Minnesota forests to climate change.
Deciduous forests in temperate zones were also thought to photosynthesize less and less efficiently as the summer goes on, similar to what happens as leaves age in some other plants like cotton.
However, the new study confirmed that temperate deciduous trees are different: The forest consumes CO2 just as well when the leaves are old as when they are new.
It parasitises the mycelium of Russula fungi, which in turn parasitise the roots of deciduous trees such as beech.
These five types of stem cells are described in the Discovery database as a general dental pulp stem cell population, which includes the following stem cell types: dental pulp stem cell (DPSCs), stem cells from exfoliated deciduous teeth (SHED), periodontal ligament stem cells (PDLSCs), stem cells from apical papilla (SCAP), and dental follicle progenitor cells (DFPCs).
Chronic water stress could potentially reduce the carbon sink of deciduous forests in the U.S. by as much as 17 percent in coming decades, leading to a decrease in carbon capture that translates to an additional one to three days of global carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning each year, according to the paper, «Chronic water stress reduces tree growth and the carbon sink of deciduous hardwood forests.»
With Fall equinox just around the corner, we can already see the leaves beginning to turn as the incredible deciduous trees begin to put on their annual artful display.
September and October are the best times to visit the East Side: Traffic is light, weather is mild, and the many patches of aspens and other deciduous trees light up as if they think they're in New England.
CHANGING EACH SEASON Help children understand that deciduous trees change as the seasons pass.
Objectives covered: Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals Identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals including pets) Identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties Observe changes across the 4 seasons Observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies ALSO ADDED: Individual assessments for ALL science objectives for ALL year groups are available for purchase as are individual year group, KS1, KS2 or complete Primary packs.
These needle - sharp teeth won't be around for long; indeed, puppy milk teeth are deciduous, meaning that just as those in human children, they're temporary and will eventually fall off.
Deciduous teeth with complicated crown fractures require extraction as soon as the fractured teeth are noticed.
A retained deciduous tooth should be extracted as soon as an adult tooth is found in the same area as the baby tooth.
What to Look for as Adult Teeth Come In Animals that do not lose their baby teeth have a condition called retained deciduous teeth.
The IG should be monitored as the adult teeth erupt (4 ‐ 7 months), and if a permanent tooth erupts and the corresponding deciduous tooth remains, the deciduous tooth should be extracted by a veterinarian.
The first set of teeth, sometimes called «baby» teeth are also called deciduous teeth because these teeth are present early in life, and then are shed as the developing permanent teeth erupt into position.
If the deciduous tooth is not shed in a timely manner, we refer to them as «retained».
Deciduous teeth are typically lost or shed as the roots of these teeth are resorbed and the crown becomes loose.
There are 26 deciduous teeth, also known as their primary, baby, milk, or kitten teeth, and 30 permanent teeth, also known as their adult teeth.
There are 28 deciduous teeth, also known as their primary, baby, milk, or puppy teeth, and 42 permanent teeth, also known as their adult teeth.
If there are retained deciduous canines or the patient is base narrow with its deciduous dentition, interceptive orthodontics should be performed as soon as possible to hopefully avoid the problem.
The best course of action is to remove the deciduous tooth as soon as possible to avoid an abnormal displacement of the permanent tooth.
As the permanent tooth moves toward the surface the deciduous tooth undergoes a resorption of its root, a breaking of the soft tissue attachments and an expulsion from the mouth.
If the deciduous teeth remain after the permanent tooth has completely erupted, food, hair and other debris will become trapped between the teeth as well as in the gum tissues resulting in significant periodontal disease.
In certain small breeds, such as the Yorkshire Terrier, Toy and Miniature Poodle, Maltese and others for example, the deciduous teeth will remain in the mouth long after the permanent has erupted.
The new biological corridor in Belize will allow animals such as pumas, tapirs, and jaguars to freely travel between the wetter, more tropical forests of the Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve on the coast and the drier, deciduous forests of the Shipstern Nature Reserve further inland.
Warming temperatures have benefited not only white spruce, the dominant treeline species in northwestern North America, but also woody deciduous shrubs on the tundra, which have begun shading out other plants as they expand their range.
Deciduous shrubs like dwarf birch and green alder are displacing ground cover such as lichen and moss.
Gradual changes in composition resulting from decreased evergreen conifer productivity and increased mortality, as well as increased deciduous species productivity, can be facilitated by more rapid shifts associated with fire disturbance where it can occur.
As the latitude increases deciduous forest transition to mixed and coniferous forests.
Later, mixed evergreen and deciduous forests prevailed in Eurasia, more deciduous toward the south, just as today.
According to the IPCC's Table 4.1 (cited three times in the excerpt above), the Malcolm paper, which discusses vegetation only, estimates that different kinds of ecosystems — such as tundra, scrubland, and deciduous forest — could lose between 2 and 47 % of their current area.
During the warm Bølling - Allerød (BA) interstadial (a warmer time period) about 15,000 to 13,000 years ago, the climate was temperate and mesic, as evidenced by the appearance of pollen of temperate deciduous oak (Quercus spp.) and pollen and macrofossils of the moisture - loving balsam fir (Abies balsamea).
As a slight variant on this, some deciduous trees that grow at high latitudes are not quite so dark and have bigger water fluxes.
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