Sentences with phrase «host tree species»
Because the beetles have co-evolved with their host tree species, they have developed mechanisms for overcoming tree defenses (Franceschi et al. [2005]-RRB-.
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Ship Canal Commons is host to recreational activities like fishing and hiking and also includes bike and walking trails, over 400 native tree species and a foot bridge that spans 200 linear feet over the Union Ship Canal.
On Barro Colorado Island this rain forest hosts more than 300 tree and shrub species.
More tree species grow in a single hectare of Yasuni than in all of North America and the reserve hosts an indigenous group still living in isolation.
The researchers compared the HSV - 1 and HSV - 2 gene sequences to the family tree of simplex viruses from eight monkey and ape host species.
The tree trunks host rich tapestries of diverse mosses and liverworts, from the deep red Taylor's flapwort (Mylia taylorii) and dark green featherworts (Plagiochila species) to bright green splashes of greater whipwort (Bazzania trilobata).
This study expands the understanding of that fact by looking at whether that lower per tree diversity is magnified further by non-natives hosting more similar communities across trees species and locations.
An international team of scientists recently discovered that seeds of a tropical tree species, which regularly hosts bats in large hollows, contain nutrients from bat excreta.
More than 50 tree species there are reproductive hosts for the insect, making them vulnerable to the lethal fungus it transmits.
This highlights the value of investigating host — microbe relationships from all branches of the tree of life, including those in which only a single symbiotic species is involved.
The horses had picked up the disease while feeding beneath trees inhabited by fruit bats, which are Hendra's natural host species.
It's a fig tree from the strangler fig species, which grow upon and «strangle» a host tree with their areal roots that drop to the ground to feed.
El Yunque hosts a number of unique plant and animal species such as the endangered Puerto Rican parrot and the tiny coquis, an indigenous tree frog.
Encompassing thirteen vegetation types including montane and cloud forests and palm and mangrove swamps, Corcovado is home to more than 500 tree species, and an astonishing host of wildlife, such as: two and three toed sloths, the endangered squirrel monkey, white faced capuchin and mantled howler monkeys, and several jungle felines, including jaguar and puma.
The area hosts more than 375 bird species, a fourth of Costa Rica's tree species and more than 4000 - 5000 vascular plant species, many of which are found nowhere else on earth.
My home used to host a view of the mountains, and that view is now blocked by birch & white spruce trees, species which don't like their feet to get wet.
The mean width of the tree ring is a function of many variables, including the tree species, tree age, soil nutrient availability, and a whole host of climatic factors (Bradley, 1985).
Variations in tree - ring widths from one year to the next have long been recognized as an important source of chronological and climatic information... The mean width of a ring in any one tree is a function of many variables, including the tree species, its age, the availability of stored nutrients in the tree and surrounding soil, and a host of climatic factors, including temperature, precipitation and availability of sunlight.