Sentences with phrase «dominant plant type»
The shores of Lake Turkana, in Kenya, are dry and inhospitable, with grasses as the dominant plant type.
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New research by a US Forest Service scientist and partners suggests that the type of mycorrhizal fungi dominant in a forest influences vulnerability to non-native plant invasion.
Wetlands include swamps, marshes, bogs, riverbanks, mangroves, floodplains, rice fields — and anywhere else, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that saturation with water is the dominant factor determining the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal communities there.
Research published Dec. 1 in the online edition of the journal Ecology Letters suggests that the invasion of nonnative plants is strongly related to what type of mycorrhizal fungi are dominant in forest ecosystems.
The CO2 - fertilisation and warming effect of rising atmospheric CO2 have generally opposite effects on savanna - and grassland - dominant functional types, with CO2 - fertilisation favouring woody C3 plants (Ainsworth and Long, 2005), and warming favouring C4 herbaceous types (Epstein et al., 2002).