Sentences with phrase «stand of trees»

It also helps replenish fresh air, producing more oxygen than an equivalent stand of trees.

It seems that this particular stand of trees could be up to 4000 years old.

We view stands of trees not by looking up at them, but down to their reflections in a body of water.

The rest of the space is a mature stand of trees.

From the plane, Dr. Running pointed out huge scars where fires had destroyed stands of trees in recent years.

While the finding applies to individual trees, it may not hold true for stands of trees, the authors cautioned.

The twigs came from the «Weltwald» or «World Forest» near Freising, Germany, in which Bavarian state foresters have planted stands of trees from different climate regions.

Some mangroves had been completely uprooted and moved, and others were broken off at the trunk, but most affected stands of trees showed signs of regrowth.

The twigs came from the «Weltwald» or «World Forest» near Freising, in which Bavarian state foresters have planted stands of trees from different climate regions.

Ironically, suburban America — landscaped with small stands of trees and wide - open lawns — creates a rough approximation of Vera's mosaic of forest and field.

Before humans altered the landscape, it was a mosaic of grasslands and marshes dotted with stands of trees and the occasional isolated oak or lime tree, two species that need ample light to grow.

The few dwindling back roads of my hometown are darkened by thick stands of trees.

He loves Connecticut in spring and Vermont in the autumn; the architecture of spiralling firs; the way stands of trees cluster like sheep and cows pattern distant fields like scattered pebbles.

We can't spend life worrying about Bigfoot because a believer will claim he is hiding behind the next stand of trees.

The public can comprehend the devastation of a catastrophic wildfire that torches vast stands of trees, leaves a scorched forest floor littered with wildlife carcasses and turns dancing streams into oozes of mud and ash.

The measurements used by Luyssaert rely on the flux of CO2 levels over the forest, but this kind of metric can be skewed by young stands of trees within an old - growth forest or an increase in growth as a result of higher atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, according to forest ecologist Mark Harmon of Oregon State University in Corvallis, who was not involved in the study.

Rather than waiting decades to see the effect of a gradual rise in CO2, a handful of studies have immersed stands of trees in a continuous bath of extra CO2, several hundred parts per million above ambient levels of about 400 parts per million.

Mika McKinnon says the forest industry in Canada has «transformed native woodland into denser, more homogeneous stands of trees by...

By differentiating the financial gains of different conservation strategies — large but distant preserves versus small, local stands of trees — Karp thinks the study could provide a framework for introducing similar efforts in agricultural zones around the world.

Rather than the back of an airline seat or endless, identical rest stops on the interstate, I saw farmhouses in the middle of protective stands of trees, silos reaching for the sky, barns faded to the soft red of tomato soup.

And lift your eyes up as you enter the majestic stand of trees at the bottom; you'll understand why it is called Cathedral Grove.

Partially surrounding the lagoons is a Logwood savannah / swamp, the largest continuous stand of these trees remaining in.

Some of the walks wind their way through stands of trees, in one of New Zealand oldest exotic forests.

While driving across South Korea in November 2000, it was gratifying for me to see the luxuriant stands of trees on mountains that a generation ago were bare.

A neighboring tree might also cast just enough shade so that a seedling can not get enough light and warmth, and a too - dense stand of trees might reduce the overall soil temperature they themselves need for rooting and uptake of nutrients.

«Hollow» is conceived of as a meditative space, a miniature stand of trees populated with a myriad of silent stories covering millions of years, from petrified wood fossils to more recent and emergent tree species.

Bamboo is a swift growing, renewable fibre that is said to store four times more carbon dioxide (CO2) than a similar stand of trees while releasing 23 % more oxygen.

Bamboo plants absorb about 5 times the amount of carbon dioxide (a primary greenhouse gas) and produces about 35 % more oxygen than an equivalent stand of trees.»

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.

Even with my eyes closed, I could tell by the wind and the little patches of bracing coolness and the sudden bright sunshine and the smell of manure when we were passing a hay field, a long thick stand of trees, a stretch of clover, or a horse farm.

«Without confidence in Canada's regulatory processes — whether seeking a permit to start a small business, harvest a stand of trees or advance a large capital project - we need to have faith in the processes set out by our governments.

As the fields rolled by underneath the plane, the stands of trees began to look like stains of blood, splatters on a neatly ruled and tidy map.

On the morning of Jan. 3, six days before he would announce The Decision, Tennessee junior quarterback Heath Shuler was shifting about in a stand of trees, staring aimlessly into the north Alabama woods.

For the stand of the tree I used mini craft sticks and hot glued them together to support the main standing tree craft stick.

Cook shot Sweat as he fled toward a stand of trees.

Nearly 10 years after having half its trees removed in a salvage logging operation following the 2002 Cone Fire in California's Lassen National Forest, the amount and variety of naturally regenerated plant life in this stand of trees differed little from a similarly burned area that wasn't logged.

Past logging has razed more than a third of Białowieża Forest, but much old - growth — defined as a stand of trees in which at least 10 % are older than 100 years — survives on land managed by State Forests.

Every 100 years or so, a major fire would sweep through and kill a stand of trees.

Comparing the two stands of trees to each other showed similar results, indicating that what was happening in the Northern Old Black Spruce forest was happening elsewhere as well.

Since then, the stand of trees has gone through at least three dry periods, evident from very thin rings during those periods.

Adds Peter Milne, a program director in NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, «We can easily measure the greenhouse gas budget from a single smokestack, but somewhat less well for a stand of trees.

In addition, a bamboo grove releases some 35 percent more oxygen into the air than a similar - sized stand of trees, and it matures (and can be replanted) within seven years (compared to 30 - 50 years for a stand of trees), helping to improve soil conditions and prevent erosion along the way.

Nearby, he said, a stand of trees had begun to wither, their leaves turning crispy brown and falling to the ground.

A black and white WRX STI slingshots between two stands of trees, more sideways and carrying more speed than the Evolution before it, and like the earlier race car, it appears to be headed for Smith's breastbone.