Sentences with phrase «large number of trees»

Insects like beetles kill and feed on large number of trees.

When large numbers of trees are relatively uniform on the landscape, a sudden or even a chronic stress such as old age can make a sizeable forest resource available to beetle populations all at once.

Extreme droughts that kill large numbers of trees can temporarily turn a sink into a carbon source.

It's estimated that over one million trees were planted that day across the Cornhusker State, with prizes offered to the counties and individuals who properly planted the largest number of trees that day.

It turned out, however, that these changes — unlike those in most unprotected areas — were not primarily the result of human activity, but rather the work of elephants, which bring down a large number of trees.

Paul Keim, a plant geneticist at Northern Arizona University, says that without sampling a larger number of trees, it is impossible to be sure of the DNA patterns in the population at large.

Don Davis, professor of plant pathology, Penn State, said that in 2003, he noticed a large number of tree - of - heaven deaths in a southwestern Pennsylvania forest.

I feel seriously guilty about the large number of trees that die to make my manga habit possible!

It is surrounded by a large number of trees of almost equal size.

Levels are full of a large number of trees, there is a dust under wheels.

In several places, large numbers of trees and shrubs are cut to provide fuel with grave consequences that include soil erosion and desertification.

«To make rayon, you have to harvest a large number of trees or bamboo, shred and churn them into tiny pieces, dissolve the wood bits in a soup of carbon disulfide, then send these vats of viscous glop to a factory to be spun into semi-synthetic fibers.

Prizes were offered to counties and individuals for planting properly the largest number of trees on that day.