Sentences with phrase «forest floors»

Covering 103 square kilometres it primarily consists of temperate rainforests with loads of refreshingly cool waterfalls with ancient, massive eucalyptus trees towering over pleasantly cool, forest floors with carpets of ferns and all manner of flora and fauna.

They will then spend a year on land, foraging for small insects in mossy outcroppings and on forest floors.

He had lived in an apartment with books touching the ceilings, and rugs thick enough to hide dice; then in a room and a half with dirt floors; on forest floors, under unconcerned stars; under the floorboards of a Christian who, half a world and three - quarters of a century away, would have a tree planted to commemorate his righteousness; in a hole for so many days his knees would never wholly unbend; among Gypsies and partisans and half - decent Poles; in transit, refugee, and displaced persons camps; on a boat with a bottle with a boat that an insomniac agnostic had miraculously constructed inside it; on the other side of an ocean he would never wholly cross; above half a dozen grocery stores he killed himself fixing up and selling for small profits; beside a woman who rechecked the locks until she broke them, and died of old age at forty - two...

Extreme fires burn larger areas and their flames jump from forest floors to incinerate canopies, producing heavy black smoke and killing mature trees.

At the tail end of the Paleozoic Era, dragonflies with two - foot wingspans cruised through swamps, and five - foot - long millipedes crawled along the forest floors.

As the bright green fuzz on streamside rocks or the living carpet on forest floors, mosses revel in their relative simplicity, lacking the roots, seeds, and flowers typical of most land plants.

When they do emerge, salamanders can be spotted not only on forest floors but also up in trees and on other vegetation, oftentimes climbing as high as 8 feet up.

The burning process clears the underbrush and opens pine cones and drops their seeds on the newly cleared forest floors.»

In this article we'll use forest fire management policy as an analogy to discuss whether market forces should be allowed to burst speculative bubbles, «clean the forest floor,» and quickly return the market to a natural state, or if governments and central banks should try to «put fires out» in an effort to slowly deflate speculative bubbles which, if allowed to burst, might harm the broader economy.

Chuckles and Chad walking through the woods, they find a watch on the forest floor: @Chuckles «Nice watch, I needed one» Chad: «it belongs to someone, shouldn't we turn it in to lost and found?»

We like to sit there in the near - dark and watch them, swooping down to the forest floor, returning to rest on the branches of the trees with their prizes.

The big puffs of foam that form on the surface of the water aren't evidence of agricultural runoff, but rather the result of rainwater leeching through the forest floor.

There's shatteredness and brokenness and the wounding edges of all the things, and there's purple myrtle densely matting the forest floor, petals studding the dark green leaves.

They die and decompose and produce waste products, all of which go back to the forest floor to be decomposed by bacteria and fungi that turn them into minerals.

Have you ever felt the forest floor after a heavy rain?

Fallen moss and dirt add character to the forest floor.

Harvested from the fruit - fall of giant Bertholletia excelsa trees, Brazil nut extraction involves little more than collection of pods («cocos») from the forest floor, a practice which has been found to increase the abundance of Brazil nut trees across the landscape.

Like the wise old wanderer, this subtle, yet complex red is unassuming at first glance, but quickly revealed to be spirited and persuasive, with black raspberry, alpine strawberry, and forest floor flavors casting a spell over your palate, bringing you back sip after sip.

Elegant; strawberry, red cherry, and wet stone with a foundation of forest floor; medium acid and soft tannins.

We can add Merlot for cherry tones, Cabernet Franc for aromatics and hints of tea leaves and forest floor and Petit Verdot for deep color and tannin structure in the middle, but in each of these wines, Cabernet is king.

Cellaring Will drink well now and will develop complex aging characters of rich earth, leather and forest floor over the next 5 years.

What the deforesters do with the felled trees — either leaving them to rot on the forest floor or burning them — creates further emissions.

And while one place serves Thai - style street food and another makes dishes that look like an Instagram photo of the forest floor, they're all cut from the same cloth.

In this dish, the pigeon was fashioned to look like an animal found on the forest floor, complete with edible autumn leaves and tasty cocoa - dusted porcini «twigs.»

Moms who garden or have multiple pairs of Tevas will dig the forest floor scent, which will instantly transport her from the four walls of her home to a hike in the woods.

Young gestures at one of the dirt mounds that litter the forest floor.

For the next few hours she collected eucalyptus branches from the forest floor, gathering them into a thick bundle.

As soon as the leaves branch out completely, the forest floor is too dark to support these beauties.

Ferns are noted for their beautiful, lacy foliage on the forest floor, but there is a lot more to say about this interesting group of plants than their famous greenery.

The air is constantly filled with birdsong and the earthy clean smell of the forest floor.

Green or brown shaggy rugs can resemble the forest floor.

In the curving gallery's big floor - to - ceiling habitats you can see animals that live in the river, on the floodplain forest floor and even up in the canopy — together — in a portrayal of the most diverse and complex freshwater ecosystem in the world.

But when startups die, they're like trees falling to the forest floor, each to decay and release its nutrients back into the soil.

The seventh largest wildfire in state history started on Brookhaven National Laboratory's Upton property and, fueled by strong winds and dry tinder on the forest floor, quickly spread south and east into the Riverhead Town section of Manorville.

It is designed with a rugged bathtub style floor for maximum protection from the forest floor and from inclement weather.

Consequently, the findings strongly suggest that the fleshy fruit - bearing M. humile is considerably specialized for seed dispersal by adult cockroaches enabling the plant to steadily disperse minute seeds across the forest floor.

Furthermore, B. nipponica adults have intrinsic traits that may facilitate their actions as dispersal agents for this mycoheterotrophic herb: (1) their abundance in the plant habitat; (2) they are ground - dwelling, which means they defecate on the forest floor where M. humile's fungal partners, Russulaceae, reside; and (3) the long transit times of seeds through their gut (3 - 10 h) providing occasional long - distance seed dispersal.

No harm comes to the elk, they harvest them right off the forest floor.

«Cockroach gardeners: Spreading plant seeds across the forest floor: An azalea family plant relies on cockroaches for seed dispersal.»

Adult blacklegged ticks feed and mate on the ears and hide of deer, laying eggs that drop to the forest floor in late spring.

The ripe fruit has no distinctive scent, are dull white in color, and are inconspicuous against the litter layer of the shady forest floor.

In the first year, adult blacklegged ticks feed and mate on the ears and hide of deer, laying eggs that drop to the forest floor in late spring.

It will soon be searching for a place to become a chrysalis, so its color has shifted towards the hues of the forest floor.

It will ingest the seeds of the plant and disperse them later across the forest floor.

The remaining soil organic matter is not — as is frequently the case with forest soil — mostly present as «forest floor» in the surface layer, but lies deeper underground where it is better protected from humus - degrading microorganisms.

On the forest floor, the leaf litter vanishes as it is eaten up by the worms and turned into humus.

The species was thought to live mostly on land, but it may actually live in the canopy, high above the forest floor.

At sites 55 miles apart, the researchers collected recently deposited material from the forest floor, called litter, which is a primary fuel in these forests.

Non-photosynthesizing plants such as L. nigricans often grow on the dark forest floor, an environment that bees and butterflies rarely visit.

Some of the moisture drips off the redwood leaves, landing on the forest floor to water the trees and young saplings.