Sentences with phrase «than the tall grasses»

The short grasses that grow in the Sahel during the rainy season are more nutritious than the tall grasses of the tropical savanna to the south, Hanan pointed out.

My only gripe was non interactive water and most of the scenery other than the tall grass.

Not exact matches

But Keasling has estimated in the past that a mere 40.5 million hectares of Miscanthus giganteus — a more than three - meter tall Asian grass — chewed up by specially engineered microbes, like the E. coli here, could produce enough fuel to meet all U.S. transportation needs.

Taller, warm - season grasses thrived on the burnt, nitrogen - rich plots, but plants that prefer cooler digs were decimated, leaving these plots with roughly 5.6 species per 10 square meters — 66 % fewer than the control plot.

The most common wetland plants — common reed and smooth cord grass — both grow more than a meter tall, so they should stay above a slick, unless strong winds bat them down.

Rather, they seem to appear more or less at their final size, acquiring the tall perimeter of grass in less than 5 years.

He stopped at the edge of a Midwestern prairie, a thicket of tall flowers and grasses more frightening to farmers than any horror movie madman lurking in a barn with a chain saw.

Rather than take on all three of them at once, I huddled into some nearby tall grass, and lured one over to me by firing specialized ammo which removed some of the robot's components.

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Rather than take on all three of them at once, I huddled into some nearby tall grass, and lured one over to me by firing specialized ammo which removed some of the robot's components.

You could try to run from place to place — and sometimes breaking down or running out of fuel may necessitate such a move — but the swaths of zombies hiding in the tall grass will overrun you, and getting anywhere in this vast environment that is bigger than either of the main game's zones would take forever.

Increased rainfall variability was more significant than rainfall amount for tall - grass prairie productivity (Fay et al., 2000, 2002), with a 50 % increase in dry - spell duration causing 10 % reduction in NPP (Fay et al., 2003) and a 13 % reduction in soil respiration (Harper et al., 2005).

And no, it doesn't look like the orginal Palouse prairie any more than Iowa looks like the original tall grass prairie.

For example, the natural tall grass prairie may well be more productive than even monoculture corn or switchgrass.

Fine fescues with greater cold and shade tolerance than tall fescue grasses also excel.