The warmer, drier climate has also helped cause massive outbreaks of spruce bark beetle and mountain pine beetle in the northern conifer forests. |
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Evening Grosbeaks breed in mixed conifer forests, but will used broadleaved trees for nesting and foraging. |
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In winter when these trees are needleless, you can really appreciate the whorled symmetry of conifer trees. |
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They emended the description of Behuninia as a conifer short shoot and added three new species, B. provoensis, B. bassii, and B. scottii. |
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The conifer habitat where they breed has suffered extensive deforestation in Washington during the past sixty years. |
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Investigators have suggested that these fossils represent new growth from cycads, deciduous trees, ginkgos and, most commonly, conifer trees. |
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A towering dawn redwood, planted in the 1940s, graces the Garden's oak and conifer knoll. |
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Only slightly larger than a sparrow, crossbills live exclusively in conifer forests where they feed on the seeds. |
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They undergo almost cyclical irruptions across portions of their winter range, which may be associated with conifer seed crops. |
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Nesting success is lower in conifer plantations that have fewer deciduous trees. |
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Astonishingly though, it's a conifer and is one of the oldest surviving tree species on earth. |
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They usually perch in the open at the very top of a conifer or snag or in a small tree. |
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Originally from China, it is one of the planet's oldest species and is a conifer despite its maidenhair fern-like leaves. |
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Tree nests are located on the branch of a mature conifer, up to 150 feet off the ground. |
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It contains narcissi and a slow-growing conifer, which will soon be too big. |
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Juniper is one of Britain's three native species of conifer and is evergreen with short spiny leaves. |
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The famous giant redwood is a large evergreen conifer, whereas, in contrast, the dawn redwood is a deciduous conifer. |
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Conifer cones, cone scales, cone seeds, and tiny scaly conifer stems are found at a number of short-shoot sites. |
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At the end of summer, squirrels store unopened conifer cones on hoarding sites located centrally on the territory. |
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With this interpretation, the entire axis of ovuliferous Cordaianthus can be modified without major rearrangement into the conifer seed cone. |
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Similar features have been seen in Permian and Triassic conifer trunks from Antarctica and North America. |
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Some conifer enthusiasts site their miniatures and dwarfs in sandy soils and water minimally. |
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The resulting hummock and hollow microtopography of the forest floor is characteristic of mixed conifer and cedar swamps in New York state. |
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As the road snakes up and over the cindery shoulder of Lassen Peak, it climbs through conifer forests to lake-dotted meadows. |
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The female builds the nest, which is located on a horizontal branch high up in a conifer tree. |
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Decorate a small conifer or other evergreen tree with garlands of unsalted popcorn and cranberries and grapes strung on heavy-duty thread. |
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A commercial Christmas tree starts out like any other conifer, but the tips of both its leader and lateral branches are clipped off. |
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The arsonist's trademark is to set light to conifer trees and wheelie bins, but lighted paper has also been pushed through a cat flap. |
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Soon the conifer area, which alone holds 1,000 species of spruce, and the hedge and shrub area become visible. |
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In some areas, Barley says, the beetle kill has caused a conversion from a mixed conifer forest to one dominated by hardwoods, most notably oaks. |
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Soil nutrients and nitrification appeared to vary more by land use in hardwood stands than in conifer stands. |
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The conifer collection is delightful mosaic of blues, grays, and greens, and the fragrance of wintersweet cannot be missed. |
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Typically built in a conifer, often near cones or knots or on an old cone base, the nest can easily be mistaken for a cone. |
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Juniper was a native conifer that thrived in the highlands of Scotland with a multitude of culinary and medicinal uses. |
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Modern Metasequoia has relatively low-density wood compared with other temperate conifer and hardwood species. |
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There are fragrant conifer forests, rich stands of hardwoods and rolling oak savannahs, pierced by glittering rivers. |
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The meandering path was littered with conifer branches and layered with a thick carpet of fresh golden straw. |
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These sites were chosen based on elevation, aspect, accessibility and presence of conifer canopy. |
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The ancient Ural mountains barely poke their summits above the taiga, Siberia's vast conifer forest. |
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The Cambrian mountains, almost overwhelmed by conifer plantations, are growing a new kind of forest. |
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If he finds these big structures, he probably has a broad-leaf tree such as a maple or oak instead of a pine or other conifer. |
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Embolism at conifer pits occurs when the torus is displaced from its sealing position at the pit porus. |
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Thousands of sporangia were also collected on a moss covered decaying conifer log on a ground site at night with the use of a flashlight. |
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The rotationally felled conifer plantation provides habitat for internationally important populations of nightjar, woodlark, and Dartford warbler. |
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Cycad fragments can be easily overlooked as petrified conifer wood. |
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This conifer, like the bald cypress and pond cypress of the southeastern United States, is deciduous, losing all of its short, soft needles in the autumn. |
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This method allows the cavitation resistance of the metastable liquid water in the lumen of tracheids in conifer sapwood sections to be estimated. |
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Shredded leaves, conifer boughs, or straw all work well as winter mulch. |
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The balance is conifer, which is a mixed bag of species that are common to the boreal forest region, including white spruce, black spruce and jack pine. |
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Other disasters include sorrel that grew well but attracted a nasty black beetle, valerian that soon dwarfed the conifer it was expected to complement, and strawberries. |
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The trees were stately, an opulent mix of mature broadleaf and conifer marching alongside the water in an unruly column stretching to the end of Hillside Drive and beyond. |
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The project has so far cleared 120 hectares of scrub, 40 ha of broadleaved plantations and 40 ha of conifer plantations, and restored grazing to more than 2,000 ha. |
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This nest is usually in a spruce or other conifer and may be 4'40 feet up. |
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In severe winter weather turkeys will frequent conifer stands such as hemlock, spruce, and pines where the temperature and wind are more tolerable. |
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They take cutting material from it and produce completely fasciated plants, such as the Stags Horn Ash and the conifer Cryptomeria japonica fasciata. |
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One of our neighbours has had to have the tree men round to take down a big conifer as they were worried it was going to blown down onto the road. |
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A conifer plantation should not be less than 1 hectare is size. |
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This is the basic pattern of the internal cel structure of conifer tree rings. |
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Club question Last week, Gordon McPhee emailed in to ask when he should trim back his thuja conifer hedge. |
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Higher up the south western shoulder are conifer plantations, both along the Bleng and above the Irt. |
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They are specialist feeders on conifer cones, and the unusual bill shape is an adaptation to assist the extraction of the seeds from the cone. |
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Retene, a product of pyrolysis of conifer trees, is an indicator of forest fires. |
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In ancient times people used herbs and spices, such as almond, coriander, myrtle, conifer resin, and bergamot, as well as flowers. |
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During the 20th century there was some afforestation with conifer plantations. |
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Pine cones, the largest and most durable of all conifer cones, are craft favorites. |
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It is one of around 30 conifer species in seven genera in the family Taxaceae, which is placed in the order Pinales. |
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Taxus baccata is a conifer native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia. |
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The main components of the diterpenic fraction are acids indicating a resin from a plant belonging to the conifer family. |
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Cryptomeria, the Japanese cedar, is a conifer extensively grown for its timber. |
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The extinct Mesozoic conifer family Cheirolepidiaceae dominated low latitude vegetation, as did the shrubby Bennettitales. |
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The new tree is a dawn redwood, a deciduous conifer which will grow to 30 metres. |
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Dwarf fountain grass, bunny grass, and deer grass are beautiful, hardy companions to the conifer garden. |
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Wind and animals dispersals are two major mechanisms involved in the dispersal of conifer seeds. |
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These series, and spodosols in general, are associated with conifer forests such as are found today in these parts of Georgia and Florida. |
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As part of the project sitka spruce, a variety of conifer, and rhododendron bushes will be removed from bogland areas. |
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Formica obscuripes, preys not only on caterpillars, but also on conifer sawfly larvae. |
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California's forest management policies make the conifer encroachment problem even knottier. |
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Hart SC, Binkley D, Perry DA Influence of red alder on soil nitrogen transformations in two conifer forests of contrasting productivity. |
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To kill broadleaf vegetation, particularly red alder, that competes with conifer trees planted after clear-cutting. |
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Wood ants incorporate an antimicrobial resin from conifer trees into their nests, preventing microbial growth in the colony. |
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Sphagnum mosses occur mainly in the Northern Hemisphere in peat bogs, conifer forests and moist tundra areas. |
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There are some large areas of conifer plantation, mainly Scots Pine, on the infertile sandy areas. |
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While tropical rainforests have more biodiversity and turnover, the immense conifer forests of the world represent the largest terrestrial carbon sink. |
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The bald cypress, Taxodium dis-tichum, is a conifer and in the same family, Cupressaceae, as the giant sequoias and the redwood trees of the western United States. |
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In another study of Sierran mixed conifer forests Amacher et al. |
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The whole of Helvellyn, above the conifer plantations to the west and the intake walls surrounding the valleys of Glenridding and Grisedale to the east, is Open Access land. |
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The Late Triassic Compsostrobus may be an early pinaceous conifer. |
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Extant conifer families that flourished during the Jurassic included the Araucariaceae, Cephalotaxaceae, Pinaceae, Podocarpaceae, Taxaceae and Taxodiaceae. |
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Hogberg P, Johannisson C, Yarwood S, Callesen I, Nasholm T, Myrold DD, Hogberg MN Recovery of ectomycorrhiza after 'nitrogen saturation' of a conifer forest. |
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A track-mounted horizontal grinder was used to comminute forest residues, including limbs, chunks, tops, and small-diameter trees of mixed conifer and whole-tree hardwoods. |
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The bird family, Corvidae is the primary distributor of the conifer seeds. |
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The Commission received criticism for its reliance on conifers, particularly the uniform appearance of conifer forests and concerns over a lack of biodiversity. |
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Reasons for the decline include loss of heather due to overgrazing, creation of new conifer plantations and a decline in the number of upland gamekeepers. |
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The western capercaillie lives on a variety of food types, including buds, leaves, berries, insects, grasses and in the winter mostly conifer needles. |
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The resin, found to be that of an Araucaria conifer related to the 'monkey puzzle tree', was from a variety found only in Oceania and probably New Guinea. |
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The River Swale and its valley support a range of habitats including broadleaved, mixed and conifer woodland as well as hay meadows and grasslands. |
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To rejuvenate a conifer which has gone brown in the centre, remove the dead branches, cut off a few lower larger branches and underplant the conifer with ground-cover plants. |
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