Sentences with phrase «dense stand of trees»

A neighboring tree might also cast just enough shade so that a seedling can not get enough light and warmth, and a too - dense stand of trees might reduce the overall soil temperature they themselves need for rooting and uptake of nutrients.

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Dense «dog - hair» stands (so - called because of the large number of short trees growing closely together, like the fur of a dog) are not usually valued, but they may play an important ecological role not previously recognized, Turner adds.

Forest Service scientists expect to see continued elevated levels of tree mortality during 2017 in dense forest stands, stands impacted by root diseases or other stress agents and in areas with higher levels of bark beetle activity.

Undaunted, Goodman entered stands of wet, green trees dense with tangled bushes and lianas.

The journey takes place over three hours and spans 8.9 miles of railroad as the track heads across creeks, canyons and dense stands of spruce and pine trees into the clouds.

The focus of Frank C. Peyraud's Summer Evening is a meandering stream that draws the eye from open meadows toward a dense stand of tall trees.

(i) Fire - free sites are those sites without charcoal macrofossils beneath, in, and on the current organic horizon (corresponding to 10 % of the surface of the study area) and with stands composed of a dense cover (generally > 40 %) of black spruce trees and shrubs — i.e. sites free of fire disturbance during a long period, but of unknown duration, of the Holocene.

(iii) Sites with charcoal macrofossils beneath the current organic horizon (corresponding to more than 20 % of the sites of the study area) are stands composed of a relatively dense cover (generally between 10 and 40 %) of black spruce trees and shrubs — i.e. sites burned probably more than twice since initial forest establishment with successful tree regeneration because they are currently forming woodlands and krummholz.