Sentences with phrase «by dense vegetation»

It is a volcanic axial zone oriented generally in a northwest - southeast direction, essentially defined by several spatter cones and lava flows and predominantly covered by dense vegetation and pasture - lands.

The long 10 km beach appears to be backed solely by dense vegetation and palm trees.

The volcano was dormant for hundreds of years and exhibited a single crater at its summit, with minor fumaroles activity, covered by dense vegetation.

The spaniels are trained to look for a piece in a rugged land or covered by dense vegetation.

Its location in the heart of an anomalous tropical desert means that unlike in the Amazon or the jungles of Central America, the fossils are not covered by dense vegetation.

When researchers finally arrived, they found solitary animals, high up in the forest canopy, screened from the ground by dense vegetation, and seldom descending.

Not exact matches

«We think the upper portion is used by peahens to locate peacocks in dense vegetation,» says Yorzinski.

Travelers should by physically fit and prepared for a fast - paced expedition with early mornings to optimize wildlife viewing and hikes at times through dense vegetation or over steep terrain.

La Villa, a member of Relais Chateaux and a beautiful Mediterranean Villa - style property of sun - blenched terracotta, sits on a hill with a stunning mountainous backdrop and is surrounded by typical gardens of dense, shrubby maquis vegetation.

The centre and highest point of the island is a small but dense jungle of tropical vegetation inhabited by parrots and tiny sunbirds.

Anacapa's prolific and dense vegetation was once dominated by the showy giant coreopsis (Leptosyne gigantea) previously named Coreopsis gigantea, an erect, shrubby perennial with a stout, succulent trunk growing to some 8 ft (2 m) tall.

After that, many buildings collapsed and the pyramids were gradually reclaimed, by dense tropical vegetation.

Crowned by majestic coconut palms which characterise the Maldives the vegetation on all islands are quite similar; rings of tropical vegetation adapting to a variety of environments salt resistant and hardy varieties closer to the beach - line giving way to shrubs and plants and more delicate and dense greenery towards the centre.

These types of crater lakes range in size from huge to tiny and are often surrounded by dense forest or vegetation that covers the inner crater walls down to the lake shore.

The resort is surrounded by dense tropical vegetation and the island has numerous private coves along the beach.

In contrast to the Pacific coast, the Caribbean beaches see more rainfall and are therefore flanked by thick vegetation and dense forestation which runs well inland covering all the lowland areas.

These sites are surrounded by wetlands colonized by dense spruce vegetation touched by fire.

These sites are surrounded by wetlands colonized by dense spruce vegetation, possibly untouched by fire during a long period of the Holocene.

These sites are surrounded by wetlands colonized by dense spruce vegetation, possibly untouched by fire during a long period of time of the Holocene.

By «ecosystem change», we mean changes in some or all of the following: the number and types of organisms present; the ecosystem's physical appearance (e.g., tall or short, open or dense vegetation); the functioning of the system and all its interactive parts, including the cycling of nutrients and productivity.

Two processes can disrupt this system and cause a transition to a less dense transitional forest or to fire - adapted vegetation: (1) damage to canopy trees by fires fueled by dry understory vegetation; or (2) depletion of deep stores of soil moisture.