Sentences with phrase «into shrub»

California ground squirrels tunnel into the shrub - covered earth, feeding on meadow grass and bitterbrush.

We're seeing areas of formerly treeless, windswept tundra transition into shrub vegetation as the climate warms and different things grow.

When we stop, it jumps into the shrubs and stays there, we get a good look at it.

Not exact matches

Nor did the mustard plant grow into the greatest shrub on earth.

Much like the fashion world, the food world also dips into the past for inspiration and shrubs have been making a comeback.

At least 1,100 years ago, traders brought it across the Red Sea into Arabia (modern - day Yemen), where Muslim dervishes began cultivating the best kona from shrubs in their gardens.

Park district officials say much of the land they would receive, plus some they would be leased, will be developed into new parks and an urban nursery to grow trees and shrubs.

«Every time forest or shrub land is cleared for farming, the carbon that was tied up in the biomass is released and rapidly makes its way into the atmosphere,» said Burney, who is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford.

In late April, a company called Hi - Tech Pharmaceuticals filed a $ 200 million claim for damages against Cohen and two colleagues, after the researchers published a paper suggesting Hi - Tech and other companies were marketing supplements that contained an amphetaminelike stimulant, BMPEA, which they mislabeled as Acacia rigidula, a shrub that grows in Texas and south into Mexico.

New research shows that as taller shrubs expand into the tundra, nutrients in their leaf litter will either promote or reduce the nitrogen fixation, depending upon which shrub species that will dominate.

Alessio Mortelliti will study how seed predation may affect the successful dispersal of trees and shrubs and may limit their ability to expand into northern habitats in response to climate change.

Reclassifying a gardener's yard into a warmer area opens new options for planting flowers and shrubs that would probably not have survived local winters in the 1970s or 1980s.

«Before Europeans moved into the territory, fires regularly moved across the landscape, killing shrubs but not grasses, which had evolved to burn, but not die, during the process,» he says.

The beetles bore into the woody stems of dead shrubs and trees.

Shrub expansion into grassy areas could reduce soil carbon accumulation and the temperature sensitivity of carbon mineralization, such that these soils would more closely resemble the carbon storage and temperature sensitivity of shrub soil.&rShrub expansion into grassy areas could reduce soil carbon accumulation and the temperature sensitivity of carbon mineralization, such that these soils would more closely resemble the carbon storage and temperature sensitivity of shrub soil.&rshrub soil.»

Although carbon stocks may be the same with or without understory vegetation, by controlling competing vegetation, carbon is reallocated into the trees instead of shrubs; and carbon loss to wildfire is reduced.

A year - long study into the behaviour of over 450 blue tits and great tits found that a suburban neighbourhood with trees, shrubs and hedges between properties attract far more birds to their feeders than a Victorian urban terrace or manicured, modern housing estate.

If the Earth's temperature rises by 4 °C, flowering subalpine pastures could turn into desert scrubland dominated by sagebrush and other woody shrubs.

Then comes a second twist: As you leave your car and follow a rising path from the shrub into the forest, it suddenly starts to rain.

-- The Secretary shall establish and provide incentives for developers of housing for which any HUD financial assistance, as determined by the Secretary, is provided for development, maintenance, operation, or other costs, to enter into agreements and partnerships with tree - planting organizations, nurseries, and landscapers to certify that trees, shrubs, grasses, and other plants are planted in the proper manner, are provided adequate maintenance, and survive for at least 3 years after planting or are replaced.

«There is so much pollution going into the air from this place that there is no living piece of grass or shrub within 30 kilometers of the city,» Fuller says.

For example, plans are now in the works to plant some native shrubs on the bare hillsides above Devils Hole in hopes of increasing the amount of organic material that finds it way into the water.

Our favorite store - bought brand is Suja Drinking Vinegar because it kicks the traditional shrub up a notch with the inclusion of additional probiotics, using a special blend that makes it all the way through your digestive tract into your gut more effectively, where it can go to work.

Frankincense essential oil (Boswellia frereana, Boswellia carterii, and / or Boswellia sacra) is a tree or shrub that produces a gum or resin that can be steam distilled into an essential oil with HUGE health benefits.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

Turn the letter - writing event into a botany lesson by explaining to students that there are 18 species of holly and that this plant can be deciduous or evergreen and grow into trees, shrubs, or lianas.

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Well, not exactly off, but we at least had good starting points: Our Shrub short already had some colorful secondary characters (that could be fleshed into two solid subplots), some prickly - protagonist personality issues worthy of expansion, and nascent conflicts and tensions that could hit your head like the sour moonshine served in The Shrub.

Trees and shrubs provide an excellent cover for would - be burglars to sneak into your home unnoticed.

Copses of shrubs and small trees provided relief on the landscape as the gallery of onlookers moved down the path and handlers moved into position with their eager dogs.

Putting your giant schnauzer puppy out into the yard for exercise may provide you with a newly landscaped yard, replete with uprooted shrubs and yawning holes in your once - green lawn.

On sunny days Katie will move her patients into the gardens or a shady spot in the courtyard for a hyper - therapeutic rehab session among fragrant day lilies, decorative shrubs, towering pines and fulsome ferns.

Stepping in the footsteps of many a celebrity, you land from your private launch and are welcomed by liveried staff into lush gardens, filled with fragrant flowers and shrubs.

In the past few months, Boca del Rio Park has been revitalized with a new kids climbing frame, seating and parasol areas and many new shrubs to bring nature back into the area.

Durban is the epitome of East meets West, where a strong Indian influence translates into some of the finest curries in the country; where mosques stand alongside historical Victorian buildings, and all is united by a profusion of subtropical indigenous and exotic trees, shrubs and flowers that need little persuasion to grow effusively.

Designed by Peter Harradine and opened in 1998, each hole is uniquely landscaped with exotic trees, shrubs and original desert flora and also features a saltwater lake which comes into play on five holes.

For the past 15 years, Edna Harper has conjured a whimsical garden of the existing shrubs and greenery on the front yard into a living sculpture garden for the neighbors and everyone who visits to enjoy.

Soothing ripples originate from a water court, tiny islands support shrubs and lanterns, smooth stone is fashioned Palimanan into a square sun terrace and is furnished with a large chair canopied.

The property provides a view into Old Hawaii with hundreds of native shrubs and flowers, indigenous trees and an endangered Nene goose nursery.

Those are dense groups of trees and shrubs that literally grow out of the salt water on the coast, making direct access into the water nearly impossible.

The ability to transform Link into a Deku Shrub, Goron or Zora was just the delicious blocky polygonal icing on the cake.

This exhibition seeks to represent the many facets of Chamberlain's broad investigation into materiality as well as engage with the natural context of Inverleith House and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh where his sculptures, presented both inside the gallery and outdoors, resonate with the site's formal yet unwieldy natural elements of trees, flowers and shrubs, revealing the power and innovation of an artist completely beyond style or fashion.

And then there is a small painting on aluminium entitled Hollow Face, a portrait «read into» the negative space, a hole, or a clearing, in a hedge or some shrubs.

Anna Krivtsova's installation Scaffolding has transformed the facade of the main building of the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow into a green oasis of shrubs and trees.

Low tundra shrubs, many of which are willow and alder species, have rapidly grown into small trees over the last 50 years, according to the study, led by scientists from the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Oxford and the Arctic Center of the University of Lapland.

In the northernmost foothills of the Polar Ural mountains on the southern Yamal Peninsula in West Siberia, Russia, tundra shrubs are turning into small trees, with big implications.

In North America these coupled interactions set the stage for changes in ecological processes, already documented, consistent with a biome shift characterized by increased deciduous composition in the interior boreal forest and evergreen conifer migration into tundra areas that are, at the same time, experiencing increased shrub densification.

But as warming turns tundra shrubs, which can be covered by snow, into tall trees, researchers fear that less light will be bounced back creating a feedback loop that will worsen climate change.

Even as shrubs becomes trees in Siberia, researchers last year reported that boreal forests had begun shifting northward into the Alaskan tundra.

Globally at the time, humans were cutting down forests for agriculture, driving carbon into the atmosphere (vegetation stores carbon, so trees and shrubs are what scientists call «carbon sinks»).