Sentences with phrase «giant sequoia»

From this study, we now know that leaves from the upper crown and lower crown in giant sequoia trees differ in toughness and succulence.

For six days, parents and their kids (3 and older) will walk to the top of granite domes, through giant sequoia groves, and around tourist - free glacial lakes.

Save the Redwoods League supports basic and applied scientific research on the biology and ecology of coast redwood and giant sequoia forest ecosystems.

Structures within leaves called transfusion tissue are surprisingly large in giant sequoia leaves and seem to promote water flow through the leaf.

Scientists reconstructed the 3,000 - year history of fire by dating fire scars on ancient giant sequoia trees, Sequoiadendron giganteum, in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park.

In view of the need to capture carbon and your report on rice plants growing five times larger when given a microbiotic fungus (28 July, p 8), what a temptation to use this on giant sequoia, even if it would be a long - term experiment.

As we left the shrubby foothills, where one could break a sweat standing still at 9 a.m., the temperature dropped 20 degrees, shadows painted the pavement, and giant sequoia appeared — the titans of the Sierra Nevada.Telling details that help us appreciate the environment changes as you go up in elevation.

The scientists make their way downfield past wood from South Africa, past 5,000 - year - old bristlecone pine, pale with spidery whorls, past giant sequoia, its slabs like the paws of defensive tackles.

Using samples from the stumps of giant sequoias logged in preceding centuries, the researchers will be able to push the record back even further.

From the smallest microbe to the largest dinosaurs and from the tiniest spore to the biggest giant sequoia, biological research continues to uncover weird and wonderful secrets of the creatures with whom we share the planet with — and could soon extend to the study of life on bodies in the solar system beyond our home.

The towering giant sequoias (thousands of years old, literally!)

«Giant sequoias become even more regal crowned in fresh snow, their cinnamon - coloured trunks and deep - green needles dusted in white.»

Regardless of how large they become, however, each of those businesses had to start somewhere, like the seeds that turn into tiny flowers and giant sequoias alike.

Under changing conditions, if the leaves can't change too, will giant sequoia groves and other old - growth conifer forests be at heightened risk of degradation?

Save the Redwoods League supports basic and applied scientific research on the biology and ecology of coast redwood and giant sequoia forest ecosystems.

Their analyses reveal that giant sequoia leaves do respond in patterned ways to environmental conditions and changes.

In its heyday, it was a popular stopover for people looking to see the Calaveras Big Trees, a recently discovered grove of giant sequoias that attracted tourists from all over.

Trips here might include a guided walking tour of the park's ancient giant sequoias and spectacular waterfalls.

Even in wet years, giant sequoia trees have the challenging task of conducting water up hundreds of feet, against gravity, to carry through processes for photosynthesis.

As we left the shrubby foothills, where one could break a sweat standing still at 9 a.m., the temperature dropped 20 degrees, shadows painted the pavement, and giant sequoia appeared — the titans of the Sierra Nevada.

That includes visits to World Record hot spots in the U.S. such as the World's Tallest Outdoor Rock - Climbing Wall in Reno, Nevada; Bowling Green, Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, which is home to the world's longest known cave system; the World's Largest Living Tree — a giant sequoia named General Sherman — in California's Sequoia National Park; and the volcanic - formed Crater Lake in Oregon, which at 1,943 feet is America's deepest lake.

Another experiences together the raptures of natural beauty — the sun sparkling on whitecaps; a grove of giant sequoia; the fury of a mountain storm; the tranquillity of a mountainside at sunset.

And others too who believe conservation is only for hunters or only for picnickers or only for the preservation of the giant sequoia forests.

At Calaveras, meanwhile, new possibilities are being mentioned, including 49ers (refers to Gold Rush history and being on Highway 49), Gold (strong singular name), Giants (refers to Giant Sequoias of Calaveras County) and Cavalry (unique and just sounds good).

A team of scientists in Hawaii has developed a way to chart the chronology of a turtle's life using the growth lines in its shell, much like the life span of a giant sequoia might be measured in tree rings.

In addition to being Earth's biggest tree, the giant sequoia takes the title of biggest plant.

Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) Height: 50 to 85 metres Diameter: 6 to 8 metres Big trees are not just spectacular sights — they also lock away carbon and create unique biological worlds.

As for plants, the largest of the large today is General Sherman, a giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park, California, which has a trunk volume of around 1500 cubic metres.

All of these traits enhance the giant sequoia's ability to grow large and tall through targeted investments to meet water - stress challenges.

Hundreds of feet above the ground, atop a giant sequoia tree, as many as 2 billion leaves vie for resources.

The giant sequoia's transfusion tissue effectively «stretches across» most of a leaf's width.

The threatened forests of California are home to the the giant sequoia, the planet's largest living organism, and its taller but less massive relative, the coastal redwood.

While it's common for tall conifers to have transfusion tissue in upper crown leaves, the cross-sections of upper crown giant sequoia leaves measured in this study have three times more transfusion tissue than the leaves of the giant sequoia's super-tall relative, Sequoia sempervirens, the coast redwood.

Chin and Sillett roped up to climb and gather samples from across the crowns of five giant sequoia trees.

The giant sequoia's leaf pores, or stomata, on the surface and undersides of upper crown leaves provide ample opportunity for the vapor to diffuse.

Like all giant sequoias, these five have a short growing season and depend on melting snowpack from the Sierra Nevada mountains for many months of the year.

The co-authors were «amazed» at this anatomy of the giant sequoia leaf that «indicates an ability to respond to local environmental signals» and furthers inquiry into the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems.

The giant sequoia's size — it's the most massive non-fungal organism on Earth — is possible in part because its leaves are responsive to environmental changes.

If you could take a cell from any organism — an alga, giant sequoia, condor, or your second cousin — and dive through its membrane into its clear liquid cytoplasm interior, you would find that all life as we know it shares the same building blocks.

I will also describe our plans to to use Oxford Nanopore sequencing as part of our strategy to assemble the very challenging mega-genomes of two of the largest trees on Earth: the giant sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum (11 Gb) and the Coast Redwood, Sequoia sempervirens (33 Gb).

Giant sequoia trees, redwood trees, and some varieties of pine trees can live thousands of years.

The Redwood Genome Project will develop modern forest inventory tools based on genetic sequences that can be used by forest managers for the conservation and restoration of coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) forests.