Sentences with phrase «smaller than trees»

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It takes more than 15,000 Christmas - tree farms to produce that annual harvest, most of them small, family - owned businesses with longstanding ties to their land.

Xbox One S, a console that has a smaller and lighter design than the Xbox One, was introduced in 2016, and is also part of that family tree.

this just shows that the world is getting weirder by the day... the pope is right, the world is experiencing amnesia nowadays... people especially in the west tends to have this amnesia coz they believe that they can live without God... they believe that they do nt need Him coz, they still able to survive... BUT what they do nt realize what these are all temporary... just look at the crisis going on right now... maybe God is still a mystery coz only FAITH can conquer mystery... can anybody out there lead me to any person who can create simply a tree, a true living tree... we know for sure that there are some who can create furnitures out from a tree... im really bothered that the world will end sooner than later... GOD FORBIDS... history just keeps on repeating itself... what a pity for the small children and the coming generation...

They're smaller and stouter than regular dates, with deep red skin, and come from a tree belonging to the buckthorn family, thus they're quite nutritious.

The amount of trees in the Philippines used for the collection of sap is very small - less than 1 % of the total coconut trees in that country.

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.

«It's a public park in a very high - density neighborhood, where many homes have small yards or no yard at all,» said Plotkin, 32, a Chicago emergency room physician who, along with some of her neighbors and Friends of the Parks, is battling to preserve the park and its more than 60 trees.

By attaching small data - logging packs with motion sensors to the backs of four colugos, researchers found that it takes one - and - a-half times more energy for the animals to climb up a tree and glide from point A to B than it does for them to move the same distance through the trees.

In 2002 35 percent of the total area cleared of trees consisted of land swaths smaller than 0.5 square kilometer, whereas by 2010, the contribution of these small areas to the overall deforestation number increased to 80 percent.

The combination of selective logging and wildfires damages turns primary forests into a thick scrub full of smaller trees and vines, which stores 40 % less carbon than undisturbed forests.

«Intuitively, you might think that shrubs would use less water than trees because they're smaller, but field work from a related study has shown this isn't always true,» he explained.

For more than a million years their australopithecine predecessors — Lucy and her kind, who walked upright like us yet still possessed the stubby legs, tree - climbing hands and small brains of their ape forebears — had thrived in and around the continent's forests and woodlands.

The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation argued in the legal case that its plan to build roads and harvest trees would have minimal impact on grizzlies because it called for logging of small areas at different times rather than a full - scale clearing operation.

Bigger trees are more vulnerable to lightning strikes and damage from high winds, and they must consume more water than their smaller counterparts.

Rodriguez says the novelty - shaped pears are grown in China in an orchard that is no different than any other, and it's likely only a small portion of the trees are relegated to growing the novelty - shaped fruit.

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

Such edge fragments are also highly unstable, with one species replacing another in rapid succession, and the trees themselves remain generally smaller than their undisturbed, towering brethren in the interior.

In general, flowering trees have smaller pores than coniferous trees, suggesting that they may be able to filter out even smaller particles.

From evidence in tree rings, the researchers say, it looks like Earth suffered small superflares — 10 to 100 times bigger than normal — in 775 C.E. and 993 C.E..

Why trees can't grow taller than 100 metres The taller the tree, the smaller its leaves.

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.

Yet Archaefructus sinensis is a small, fleshy, aquatic plant that looks more like an herb than a flowering tree.

Understanding these pocket rain forests and how they sustain themselves in the middle of a rugged desert has become the life's work of a small cadre of scientists who are only now beginning to fully appreciate Fray Jorge's third and deepest surprise: The trees that grow here do more than just drink the fog.

We drove through small villages of not more than 10 to 25 huts, snuggling like nests at the foot of the towering tropical trees.

Ozone seemed to stunt the trees: Saplings in rural areas, where there was less pollution but more ozone, were smaller than urban trees, which experienced dirtier air and lower ozone levels.

Each of these ornaments was smaller than a golf ball and seemingly made of wood, which might make you think it was some healthy part of the tree.

«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.

The trees now survive only in scattered woodlands or in small groups, which cover less than 1 per cent of their original area.

«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.

Tiny spherical particles of gold and silver that are more than 100 million times smaller than the gold and silver baubles used to decorate seasonal fir trees...

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

They also need more water to survive than smaller trees.

If you buy an artificial tree, vow to use it for the next nine years (this is the magic number when using a fake tree usually starts to become less environmentally taxing than buying a real one every year), or consider an understated «wall tree» if you live in a smaller space.

While organic coconuts are generally smaller than their conventional counterparts, organically managed trees are more robust and drought - resistant, and their soil is more rich and moisture retentive.

Plus, the coconut palm tree has a smaller footprint than cane sugar, requiring 20 % of the resources while producing 50 - 75 % more per acre.

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.

Most of the trees listed here grow smaller than ornamental pears, but they are charming trees to use in the landscape.

You wont believe how hard it was to find a tree that was taller than three feet, but smaller than 6 feet.

(As a side note, I found my greatest enemies — more than the titans themselves — to be small trees, corners of buildings, or any other object capable of instantly breaking my anchor line, leaving me to impotently fall to the ground and having to start my attack run anew.)

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Whether you're navigating through traffic or in between backwoods trees, the new Cherokee offers a smaller turning diameter than the Escape with 36.7 feet compared to 38.8 feet from the Escape.

But eventually the first small groups of villagers trained other groups and over the next thirty years, more than thirty million trees were planted.

A relatively inexpensive reader, capable of reading multiple file formats, ebooks that are significantly cheaper than their print counterparts — with those elements in place, more people would use ebooks more often, and the publishers still would do print runs (smaller ones, probably) to accomodate that change (and save trees, as well as their own money).

The phrase can't see the wood for the trees is most often used in a reflective situation framed by the word «I didn't, or «we couldn't», rather than «we can't» or «we don't», because it's generally only after we mess something up beyond repair that we realise we were focussing on a small and perhaps unimportant element of a larger whole the entire time.

If you are taller than six feet, you don't want to get in the woods, hook a hammock to a couple of trees and then find it's impossible to get cozy in a hammock that's too small.

Smaller credit unions are less likely to use complex voicemail trees or use automated email than their competitors.

Buy your cat a toy, a climbing tree made specifically for cats, a new bag of cat food shipped to your home or anything that comes in a box the size of which is a bit smaller up to quite a bit larger than your cat.

Sometimes when people buy smaller cat tree (less than 4» tall), cats don't seem very interested in them.