Sentences with phrase «types of trees found»

The Oak tree is one of the most common types of trees found in North America.

This is also true of the titles of Frankenthaler's final woodcuts, which refer to different types of trees found and observed through the seasons on her property in Darien, Connecticut.

Not exact matches

I am hard pressed to decide which I find more fascinating, the vibrant beauty of the bird and the majestic stature of the tree, or the realization that my own human brain is simultaneously taking in the scene while reading and typing on the computer.

Usually I do some type of hummus or avocado - based dip, but for this campaign, I decided to experiment cooking with Dreaming Tree wine... and I think I found two new favorites in the process!

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.

A research project funded by the European Union found that the diversity of landscape and farming systems was greater in organic farms, regarding land use types, crops, livestock, plantings (hedges, solitary shrubs, trees) and flora.

Lastly, found on The House That Lars Built, I just love how you can slip foliage (think a sprig from your tree or a bit of holly), cards or even smaller stocking stuffer - type gifts under the knot of the cloth to up your presentation.

Engineers at the University of Maryland have found that porous types of wood from trees like poplar and pine can greatly increase the efficiency of water - to - steam conversion under sunlight.

Co-author Dr Rachel McInnes, Senior Climate Impacts Scientist at the Met Office, added: «This finding that the effects of different types of vegetation — green space and gardens, and tree cover — differ at both very high and very low air pollution levels is particularly relevant for public health and urban planning policies.

When they tested chemicals from the type of cypress tree that was used to construct the building they found that some are so repellant that rodents will not gnaw anything coated with them (Journal of Chemical Ecology», vol 21, p 263).

These bursts were found in phylogenetic trees created for 22 microbial communities, chosen to represent a breadth of habitat types: plant, marine, and human gut and skin.

The new family tree can also help researchers examine related groups, such as the types of plagues that currently affect only rodents (such as Microtus strains and those that have been found in Chinese marmots)-- and what genetic changes might need to occur to allow them to infect humans.

This fieldwork piggybacks on a recent finding by Jessica Lundquist, a UW associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and her lab that shows that tree cover actually causes snow to melt more quickly on the western slopes of the Pacific Northwest's Cascade Mountains and other warm, Mediterranean - type climates around the world.

Once they used clusters of dates to track patterns of population growth and decline at archaeological sites in Europe, they calibrated their method by studying patterns in the types and dates of pollen found at the sites, which reflect when farmers cleared land of trees to grow crops.

The image of the growing metallic tree can be found in another type of experiment, one that Starkey, Boyle, and very likely Newton all conducted: the attempt to synthesize the Philosophers» Stone.

In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the team describes their sequencing study of three types of plants and the comparisons they made with other plants that had been previously sequenced, and why they believe that what they found might help such trees survive as the planet warms.

Methods: In this new approach, the team began with an atmospheric aerosol sample that contains thousands of molecules formed in the reactions of ozone, a common atmospheric oxidant, with limonene, a molecule emitted by various types of trees, which is responsible for the citrus scent found walking among the orange 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.

Almond butter has been used as an alternative to peanut butter for years for those who have peanut allergies, but research is finding that almond butter, along with almonds and other types of tree nuts, contain monounsaturated fats, the kind that is good for the heart.

I had been wanting to find some type of trees or topiaries for each side of our fireplace for a while.

Instead, we find a spot in the city, ask (yet again) which type of tree smells the best (it's Balsam if you're wondering!)

While it can refer to many different types of trees, you can read about the ironwood tree found in the U.S. here: http://www.pima.gov/cmo/sdcp/species/iw/illus.html

In addition Sillett et al have found various types of huckleberry bushes (related to blueberries), rhododendrons, a sprawling shrub called salal, currant bushes, elderberry bushes and even bonsai versions of other trees such as laurel, Douglas - fir, tan - oak and buckthorn.

And the market has room for all types of natural litters, including but not limited to the wheat - based sWheat Scoop offered by Pet Care Systems of Detroit Lakes, Minn.; the recycled paper formula found in the Good Mews products manufactured by Stutzman Environmental Products of Canby, Ore.; the corn - based formulas offered by World's Best Cat Litter, and the newest wood - based formulations offered by Next Gen made from a type of cypress tree called hinoki.

What kind of clown would actually recommend going out into your yard and picking up all the sticks, tree limbs, branches and any other type of wood that could be found so that your dog will not grab it and start eating?

Its dens have been found in various types of locations including, but not limited to, beneath shrubs, open grasslands, rocky slopes, and beneath the roots of large trees.

In your villas guests will find elevated wood lounges which are incredibly spacious, beautifully furnished, and artistically designed whilst overlooking the frangipani trees at the same time which allows you to benefit from this natural type of aromatherapy.

This area has many orchids and ancient trees, but I could only find a single specimen of this type.

April 16 (Sunday)-- Easter - find all the Easter eggs, collect one of all six types (Tree, Underground, Rock, Sky, Fish and Deep sea) to receive an Easter Basket from the Easter Bunny, eat the eggs to find Candy, Prize Ticket, Grand Prize Ticket and exchange prize tickets for Egg Furniture and the Easter Bunny's Picture (06:00 - 05:59).

Ten years after the survey's findings, Melbourne was a remarkably different place thanks to sidewalk widenings, copious tree plantings, a burgeoning cafe culture, and various types of car restrictions on some streets.

Koalas love of Manna Gum, and their intolerance to a rapid change in diet, results in them staying in bare trees rather than moving to another tree type, such as those found in the neighboring Great Otway National Park.

In other shocking news, officials in Kuwait have announced that about 90 % of corals in their territorial waters are dead or dying; the first Hourglass Dolphin found in more than 150 years has washed up on the shores of New Zealand; Poison - laced mice are being airdropped into Guam to kill a rampant, invasive species of tree snake — there's a video, after the jump — , and in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, an old oil - drilling rig has been turned into a hotel catering to snorkelers and scuba divers — the type of project proposed by Morris Architects for the (pre-BP spill) Gulf of Mexico.

As you can see, they found that tree density was significantly higher (in eight of nine forest types) in the current era of high carbon dioxide, when compared to the early period when concentrations were around 306 ppm, only about 10 percent above the pre-industrial background.

You can find similar types of droughts in the tree ring records during the 1100s and 1200s when most of Western North America was really arid.

For these reasons, investigators have increasingly found tree - ring data most useful when supplemented by other types of proxy information in «multi-proxy» estimates of past temperature change...»

For these reasons, investigators have increasingly found tree - ring data most useful when supplemented by other types of proxy information in «multi-proxy» estimates of past temperature change (Overpeck et al., 1997; Jones et al., 1998; Mann et al., 1998; 1999; 2000a; 2000b; Crowley and Lowery, 2000).

Traditional cork, carved from the bark of a type of oak tree found mostly in Portugal and the Mediterranean, have about 150 years of life in them but can only be harvested every 9 — 12 years.

In fact, some types of trees actively consume certain types of air pollution.Looking at oxygenated volatile organic compounds (oVOCs)-- which are emitted from both manmade and non-manmade sources and can have serious effects on the health of the environment and humans — the team found that deciduous plants take up oVOCs as much as four times more rapidly than previously thought.