Sentences with phrase «growing thicket»

Now, Graham and colleagues are waiting to see whether the species becomes a permanent resident, perhaps encouraged by declining coastal water quality and a growing thicket of offshore oil drilling platforms, which may provide the perfect hard substrate for a bottom - dwelling life stage.

Not exact matches

These corals grow in dense thickets, some of them 30 feet tall, off the coasts of Scotland, Norway, Alaska's Aleutian Islands, and many other places.

Introduced to North America by Botanical Gardens in the 1890s, Amur honeysuckle — referred to by Conover as public enemy number one — has formed dense thickets in the local forest sub-canopies, choking out native species everywhere it grows.

A database of stem cell - related patents is also urgently needed, the group says, to help scientists deal with the thorny thicket of intellectual property that has grown along with the hot field.

Wild yam is typically found in either moist open woods, within thickets, or growing along roadsides.

Because of this thicket of laws, which has grown during the past 40 years, Internet companies almost need lawyers more than they need programmers.

The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses, sometimes carved into blackened chambers, hollowed out by fire, called «fire caves.»

But much of the Avalon is tundra, known locally as barrens — an open, windswept land home to flocks of ptarmigan and the southernmost wild caribou herd in the world, where the trees, if they grow at all, cower in dense, waist - high thickets known as tuckamore.

This popular evergreen can grow up to two meters and develop into a huge thicket after a few years.

Often starting with an excerpt of text, a totem, a gesture, or all three at once, Natasha Bowdoin's drawings grow instinctively, sprawling across a wall or tightening into a thicket of words and imagery contained by the paper's edge.

In its spiky avidity, «Wheel House» might even read as a rejoinder to the edge - to - edge lyricism of Brice Marden's loopy abstractions, though Arnoldi's picture clearly grew out of his own earlier work such as the 1986 example here - an actual thicket of painted sticks attached to painted plywood.

Finally, the culture of special interests has grown so pervasive that many Americans feel like it's a hopeless situation in Congress — there's a sense that it's impossible for the common man to get heard through the thicket of lobbyists and campaign financiers.

This is both a thicket of technological problems — i.e. what problems are the most interesting / tractable / impactful — but also a thicket of business questions — i.e. what does the community need in order to continue growing.

Partly because of this, a thicket of laws has grown up around employment intended to ensure fair access to jobs for everyone who wants one without discrimination against anyone for being a member of a protected class.