Sentences with phrase «larger than trees»

The team of ecologists, based at the Mpala Research Center in Kenya, found that trees close to the edges of glades grew faster and were generally larger than trees elsewhere in the savanna.

Not exact matches

In a large review of studies published in the Journal of Nutrition, Purdue University scientists found that whole tree nuts and peanuts have roughly 15 % fewer calories than the figure calculated using the Atwater method.

And because of the materials he had, including his rock saw that he uses for the trenching, he was able to provide a more efficient and much cheaper service than others for the customers, who are usually large - ranch owners investing a lot of money to save their trees.

Despite more construction underway in Coffey Park, large sections of the Santa Rosa neighborhood remain little more than charred trees and empty lots, as residents face challenges working with their insurance companies.

In 2013, the city had more than 95,000 residents and is known as the «Druid City» for the large number of water oak trees plants along the downtown streets in the 19th century.

A book that is like your own larger - than - life Advent Calendar, opening up to 25 wondrous stories that tell the family tree of Jesus, from Creation to His Coming.

I do not suggest that the rights of a particular tree or mountain, field or stream will always prevail, any more than the wants of a particular person can always be honored when they stand against the needs of a larger society.

If the reason for using containers is to expand the size of the garden rather than eventually to bring the plants indoors, then size and appearance is not a problem and the gardener can use fairly large containers such as plastic trash cans, wooden boxes or barrels, styrofoam picnic coolers, and the large plastic, fiber, or metal pots used by greenhouses for shrubs and trees.

For example, 81 % of the coffee in Nicaragua and El Salvador grew under a shade canopy in 1996, and although recent surveys document declines in shade tree diversity since then, these declines mostly occurred on larger farms; in contrast, many smallholder cooperatives preserve high levels of biodiversity, including more than 100 species of shade trees on fewer than 30 farms (Méndez et al. 2010a).

When asked about his passion for the produce industry and he says, «What tastes better than a large red bing cherry, or what has an aroma better than a juicy tree ripened peach?

The sugar palm trees are different than coconut palms and while they do produce coconuts they aren't the same type - they have milk but a gelatinous flesh inside in small pockets verses the large cavity of white flesh found in meat coconuts.

Bellerin had more «bones» than that «large useless tree».

The service, branching off — if you will — from its famed family tree builder, claims five times more ethnic regions than the next leading test, and also bills itself as the largest DNA network in the world.

A mobile Christmas tree chipper that sounds louder than ten large haldron colliders operating at once parks outside your house and starts disposing of about three hundred trees (this actually happened)

Then look no further than this 5 piece Baby Aspen gift set which includes large plush owl that doubles as a rattle, crinkle tree toy, owl door hanger made from canvas, a beautiful brown blanket and a wicker basket.

In the Southern Tier and Hudson Valley regions, the Department has deployed more than 1,000 operators and supervisors, 388 large dump trucks, 23 chippers, three tree crew bucket trucks, 12 signal trucks, and 91 loaders.

The study, just published in the journal Atmospheric Environment, points out that low hedges reduce the impact of pollution from vehicles in cityscapes where there are large buildings close to roads, far more effectively than taller trees.

Considering only larger trees (≥ 10 centimeters in diameter), the pattern persisted, with most species being more aggregated than random.

Activists have stenciled the largest ones with spray paint: «This tree is more than 100 years old.»

FROM Riesling to Merlot, wine grapes from around the world are more closely related than expected, says the largest study so far to produce a family tree of grapes.

In central British Columbia, the insects have destroyed more than 14 million hectares of trees — an area the size of Connecticut — in the single largest outbreak the world has ever seen.

At 20 billion bases of DNA, the newly sequenced genome of the Norway spruce, a popular Christmas tree in Europe that can reach heights above 30 meters, is six times larger than the human genome.

The trees visited by the ants also had larger crowns than the trees without ants.

Furthermore, the study results indicate that larger bat colonies may provide more nutrients for the trees than small colonies.

New research shows that an area larger than the land area of Maryland — more than 11,500 square miles — was completely stripped of trees, grasses and shrubs to make way for more than 50,000 new oil and gas wells that were developed each year between 2000 and 2012.

By producing such a large data set, we hope that our evolutionary tree for Paleocene mammals is more robust and reliable than any of the previous ones.

This is because large animals disperse large seeded plant species often associated with large trees and high wood density — which are more effective at capturing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than smaller trees.

Assistant Professor Yuzo Miyazaki of Hokkaido University, who led the research, said «In recent years, some studies have pointed out that the amount of organics emitted from the forest floor is similar to, or even larger than, that emitted from tree leaves in cool - temperate or other higher - latitude forested areas.

Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human - induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture.

The area now is closed to recreation and commercial logging, but more than 80 percent of the land was logged during the early 20th century, and a large swath of dense, second - growth trees grows there now.

Playing the role of Cupid in this long - distance love affair is the tiny fig wasp — no larger than a flea — that's born inside a fig fruit, eats its way out, and buzzes on to a new tree to lay its eggs inside a flower and die.

The finding, reported in today's Nature, suggests that although fig trees may require a relatively large area to reproduce successfully, they also may be better than other trees at coping with isolation or habitat fragmentation.

Rather than the tree laying down one growth ring under the bark every year, each of the hundreds of individual strands were growing their own rings, like a large collection of mini trees.

«The work clearly shows that, despite their size, small rodents play a much larger role in seed dispersal for some tree species than previously recognized,» says Joshua Plotkin, a population biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who mathematically models evolutionary and ecological questions.

Specifically, smaller stands of trees — roughly the size of a few football fields — situated throughout crop fields provided better levels of beetle protection than the much larger forest preserves set on the outskirts of farms.

However, because dinosaurs lived across a larger geographical area than catarrhines and most of the initial studies took place in Europe and North America, the later addition of dinosaur fossils from Asia and South America has changed the shape of the dinosaur family tree more.

«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally.»

«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nate McDowell, a renowned forest ecologist and plant physiologist who coauthored a paper in the journal Nature Plants highlighting this research.

In a study, which appears in the December 22 issue of the journal Nature, the team constructed an evolutionary tree of more than 32,000 species of flowering plants - the largest time - scaled evolutionary tree to date.

For more than a century, scientists have debated the family tree of the arthropods, the largest and most diverse division of the animal kingdom.

Tree rings and many other chemical and biological climate proxy records, by their nature, tend not to record very large short - term fluctuations, and for this reason they are likely to show less variability than actually exists in the climate record.»

Cell culture holds the potential for an environmentally friendly, less capital intensive and more reliable method of production that can generate large quantities of paclitaxel and taxane intermediates at costs significantly lower than those of current tree - harvest methods.

Rather, larger and older trees accumulate carbon more rapidly than do younger, smaller ones.

Beyond local impacts like bad air quality and ecological issues, wildfires also emit large amounts of carbon dioxide, rather than those trees sucking carbon out of the air.

Yes, it involves a trip to the forest, but you won't be stripping down and jumping into a serene lake surrounded by larger - than - life trees.

The sugar palm trees are different than coconut palms and while they do produce coconuts they aren't the same type - they have milk but a gelatinous flesh inside in small pockets verses the large cavity of white flesh found in meat coconuts.

I love everything from the giant wreaths, to the large red bows on the lampposts, to the beautiful, larger - than - life trees.

The Luellings did indeed make it to Oregon and prosper along with their trees, but Hopkinson spices up their saga with larger - than - life drama narrated in the wonderful voice of one of the pioneer daughters, whom she aptly gives the name of Delicious.

Yes the first iteration of the Mirasol e-reader device may handily fit into the average breast pocket, but haven't Qualcomm noticed that most of us are not that inconvenienced by the typical book or magazine, which dead - tree - product manufacturers consistently bring out in dimensions larger than the average breast pocket — possibly because most of us get on with them better that size?

It would mean the dead - tree books are a bit larger — BOS takes up more space in a given point size than BA, which takes up more than TNR.