Sentences with phrase «many young trees»

There often comes to us the desire to put our arms around a young tree and feel the same surge of life as in ourselves or to read our own most special mystery in the eyes of a dumb animal.

A young tree set out in a city's park with an iron cage around it for support may well resent the humiliation of that external curb, but if all the freedom which the tree seeks is release from that encumbrance it will discover that the only freedom which it has achieved is freedom to fall over when the wind blows.

The earliest the first harvest can take place is eight years after planting, when young trees — like those pictured here — yield about 5 kgs (11 lbs) of dry cinnamon.

Young trees are planted in black, volcanic soil so new that it often seems the farmers are planting their seedlings in rock instead of soil.

By the way, the stringiness found in some avocados near the stem end is a result of a younger tree vigorously putting out fruit.

Buying a young tree is also very inexpensive.

There is one picnic table, and many young trees.

These simultaneous demands seem impossible to meet after high tree mortality, but Redmond said the fact that areas still meet these criteria means many young trees have a fighting chance to re-establish woodlands and escape their forbears more dismal fate.

Redmond's team compared pinyon seedlings and young trees from various areas to see how more sunlight affected their microsites and found an interesting result.

The new study shows that stochastic influences also play an important part in determining the location of young trees, i.e. the type of habitat in which they will grow, which again turns tree species into generalists.

Each year for the next five years, forest workers will return to check on their young trees and remove competing species, Reyes tells the group, even though the slow - growing mahoganies won't be large enough to cut for timber for another 75 years.

For example, a 7 - year - old tree, one of the youngest trees in the study, had 78 percent of its seeds germinate, while one of the oldest, a 104 - year - old tree, had 66 percent of its seeds germinate.

They brought the soils and seedlings back to UT and simulated the expected tree movements by growing young trees with soils collected from across their elevation ranges.

In a unique study of tropical tree roots at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute published in PLOS ONE, roots accounted for almost 30 percent of the total biomass of young trees.

In sum: The more harvesting, the fewer younger trees in the forest.

Like researchers studying other logged forests, she found evidence of an «edge effect»: the density of shade - tolerant seedlings decreased within several hundred meters of the fragment edge, where young trees are more exposed to sun, wind, and competition from invading species.

Young trees don't actually start to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxidefor 20 years, he says, and it takes a tree 100 years to remove a measly 3,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — assuming the tree survives drought, fire, flood, disease, and other afflictions.

Extensive harvesting of Brazil nuts has led to a dearth of young trees, threatening the future of this rainforest crop.

That's because as young trees grow up and run low on water, nutrients, and light, they may not be able to soak up all the extra gas.

It's already clear that young trees grown in partial enclosures respond to high CO2 with a growth spurt, stepping up photosynthesis and making more leaves and wood.

Cotton root rot, a long - established disease in much of the state, has been a problem for young trees, according to Stein.

Forest stands comprised of older, larger trees tended not to be very susceptible, while young trees are known not to be susceptible and were not sampled.

That said, we also found that dense vegetation was the most important predictor of nest survival, so harvest practices that reduce density of young trees, such as pre-commercial thinning, could potentially be detrimental,» says Buckley Luepold.

Old - growth ponderosa pines are characterized by their yellow bark (younger trees have black bark), flat tops and straight limbs.

Tree seedlings jumped from about 2 percent to about 13 percent of total plant cover, a finding that suggests when older trees die out, there will be younger trees to replace them, Jenkins said.

As the climate warms and some tree species shift toward cooler, more hospitable habitats, new research finds soil microbes could be playing a crucial role in determining where young trees can migrate and how well they survive when they arrive.

Still feeling guilty about ending a young tree's carbon - sequestering days?

Back in the car and up the road, Ripple points to a thicket of young trees and brush on a hillside to our left.

The net result is a loss of understory plants — the young trees, ferns and wildflowers that grow in the spaces between big trees.

Some young trees can be saved by severely pruning the infested parts and removing pine cones.

The successful bear families also use clear - cut areas, where young trees and shrubs are thick.

According to Dawson, «Changes in the frequency and amount of fog could have important impacts, not so much to the mature trees but to young trees and seedlings.

It became clear that young trees with more stored carbohydrates were able to maintain the vital water content in the stem for longer than those with fewer stored carbohydrates.

The analysis of the spatial genetic structure of the Parkia population revealed a significant genetic relationship of the plant embryos and young trees within a radius of 300 meters, which coincides with the distance within which most seeds are dispersed by the tamarins.

However, a new University of Minnesota study with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than scientists previously believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open - air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.

They sprout earlier, to the detriment of native species: Young trees for example, still low to the ground, may not receive the light they need to grow.

Three years later, the Japanese sent more than 2,000 young trees to be planted near the Potomac River as a symbol of the growing friendship between the two nations.

And when the wolves were reintroduced young trees appeared again because the wolves were eating the elk that would eat the young shoots of the trees when the trees would grow along the banks of the streams.

«These new airborne technologies, which are sensitive enough to discern saplings and young trees, may make the problem more tractable,» comments study co-author Flint Hughes of the US Forest Service.

Branch by branch (neuron by neuron) we create new knowledge... similar to how a young tree sapling turns into a 40 - foot tall tree.

In place of the old broken concrete, weeds and rusted poles — remnants of a basketball court — is a newly sodded football field and a newly planted arboretum full of skinny young trees.

It is home to double - and single - wide trailers and small houses tilting off their foundations, yards that have been overgrown for so long, the weeds are as tall as young trees.

It's an hour hike through the jungles of the Roaring Creek Valley; along the way Rudy points out the parallel scars raked on a young tree by a jaguar marking his territory and shows me a fat mother tarantula guarding an egg case.

The branches grow horizontally in a tier like manner on the trunk that give the young trees a layered look.

This tree is unusually symmetrical with the branches coming out in layers, best seen in young trees and at the tops of larger trees.

The young tree inside was real, the outside was casted in bronze from an existing one.

Piet Mondrian, «Polder Landscape with Silhouetted Young Tree», 1900 — 01 (detail).

Among these gestures was the work L'albero ricorderà il contatto del mio corpo (The Tree Will Remember the Contact), which consisted of the artist tightly hugging a tree, and Continuerà a crescere tranne che in quel punto (It Will Continue to Grow Except at This Point) which entailed inserting a steel cast of his hand and forearm into the trunk of a young tree.

For Asad Raza's project in the biennial, he filled a sun - struck sixth - floor gallery with young trees in planters and enlisted the help of strangers to care for them and to welcome visitors with personal tales and artifacts.

Sometime he uses heavy girders from a demolished building and reveals the young tree inside the strapping structure that held up a building for a century.