Sentences with phrase «young trees»

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.

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

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.

There is a growth phase as young trees approach maturity.

There is one picnic table, and many young trees.

The grand old tree also leaves behind fertile earth upon which the new young trees are able to set deep roots.

So the study is comparing young trees with the old trees that were best - adapted to survive — and may have been particularly fast growing.

For what it's worth I can think of no better closing gift for a client than a good healthy young tree ready to give a lifetime of comfort.

It seems to me that young trees grow more quickly that older trees, thereby absorbing more energy per plant.

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.

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.

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.

Perhaps one day in the distant future we'll be able to go 3D - print an apple tree, or build an internet - connected modular maple tree from a kit, or have access to hyper - trees that grow at 10X the normal rate, but until that day arrives (and probably for long after), we'll need to keep buying young trees, planting seeds, and taking cuttings the old - fashioned way, which is actually much simpler and cheaper than any tech solution to anything.

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

In tropical rainforests, most young trees grow spatially independent from their parent trees.

Amphibian researcher Matthias Stöck refers to the fact that gene flow between these two young tree frog species is not completely interrupted, yet, which is typical of such young species.

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.

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.

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.

There are historic accounts of roosting pigeons bending the crowns of young trees down to the forest floor under their combined weight.

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.

History: Bill is a very handsome young Tree Walking Coonhound mix who needed help from an unfortunate situation down in the south.

This is followed by proposals to log the Tongass National Forest of Alaska (which the Bush administration approved in late 2003), and all other old - growth trees on public lands (with a flip suggestion that replacing «decadent» old trees with carbon - dioxide - absorbing young tree farms will reduce global warming).

A problem that can occur when using trees at a single site is that the trees might have been affected by some local event, such as an insect attack, or young trees breaking through the forest canopy and growing with little constraint.

The problem is, the very trees that the logging companies take — the oldest, largest, tallest ones — are also 1) the most resistant to fire, and 2) the ones that provide a thick canopy, blocking sunlight and reducing the volume of highly - flammable shrubs, herbs, and young trees at ground level.

They are more likely to be net absorber of CO2 annually while they are young (so maybe young trees will be defined as an «Allowable Solution»!)

Most have heard of the various ecological costs of replacing tropical rainforest with regenerating young trees.

Nor is there any guarantee that the end of a drought will permit young trees to recolonise the burnt, parched and blighted landscape: fast - growing grass and shrub species will get there first and block any regrowth.

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

Seeds fail, saplings wither, young trees don't make the vault to the canopy.

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.