| We had not previously examined this area because of the denseness of the understorey. |
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| Hardy brush box, native elm and tuckeroo tower on the ridge tops above the low understorey of palm-like burrawangs. |
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| Many vascular epiphytes share the understorey environment with terrestrial herbs, shrubs and tree seedlings. |
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| Post-harvest stands are often dominated by balsam fir, white birch, and pin cherry, with an understorey of balsam fir. |
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| The soil is fertilized in such a way that gradually an understorey appears with nutrient-hungry plants. |
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| That thins the forest understorey and increases visibility which, Dr Magle reckons, helps predators spot nests that denser vegetation would hide. |
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| Tropical forest is wetter and usually supports only knee-high fires that spread slowly through the understorey. |
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| The reverse would be true if protection from ultraviolet light were the answer, since the canopy is sunnier than the understorey. |
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| Pockets of calcareous, high-acidity soils in this ecodistrict support a remarkable diversity of understorey species. |
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| Characteristic understorey species in the Grand Lake Ecoregion tend to be associated with aquatic habitats or otherwise damp conditions. |
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| Now the slender spires of tamarack and balsam fir dominated a scraggly forest, while impenetrable-looking layers of hardy shrubs filled the understorey. |
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| These size classes represent successive stages of trees forming the forest: canopy, subcanopy and understorey. |
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| Dry-sclerophyll forests have a canopy between 10 metres and 30 metres tall, and generally have a hard-leaved understorey with wattles, peas and boronias. |
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| In the understorey are monsteras, warrigal greens, more Cape gooseberries, and numerous self-sown annuals and biennials, as well as many shade-loving ornamentals. |
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| The understorey in the ancient woodland is mainly hazel stools. |
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| Sheep laurel, Labrador-tea, and wintergreen are among the understorey species typical of nutrient-poor sites. |
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| Its understorey of dwarf rattlesnake-plantain and painted trillium creates a colourful forest quilt in spring. |
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| The understorey in the forest depends on the type of trees growing there. |
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| Vegetation plots were established to measure longer-term silvicultural implications of the partial cutting on tree growth, windthrow occurrence and understorey vegetation response. |
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| The inland forest is therefore made up of larger trees with a generally more open understorey likely to appeal to boreal owls in their hunt for small mammals. |
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| Indeed, studies of gorillas and elephants have shown that the disturbance caused by selective logging favours a rich understorey of plants that are a favourite food of both gorillas and elephants. |
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| The data collected include e.g. actual data on biodiversity or data on factors contributing to biodiversity, such as understorey vegetation, the range of species and the nutrient quality of soil. |
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| Most practical forestry has been almost entirely driven by measures to protect the growth and regeneration of commercial trees, but the understorey is a functionally integral part of the forest ecosystem. |
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| Another widespread understorey species in New Brunswick is the northern wild raisin, so named because it bears dark blue or black fruit that become slightly withered with the arrival of winter. |
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| Although invasion histories have not been described previously, A. rufinerve has been recently reported to invade the understorey of a 300 ha forest near the city of Mons in Belgium. |
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| Even so, these stands lack the characteristic understorey species found in more southerly locations including spring beauty, bellwort, trout lily, and Christmas fern. |
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| It is covered by sugar maple, red oak, hemlock, and mature white pine, with a rich understorey that includes roundleaved hepatica and several species of fern. |
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| This overview of the seven New Brunswick ecoregions has considered ecoregions at their broadest, continental scale, outlining the distribution of their tree and understorey species, wetland types, and some animal species. |
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| This silver maple swamp has a dense understorey of sensitive fern and the ostrich fern, more commonly known as the popular wild food, the fiddlehead. |
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| There, it grows as an understorey plant in the laurel forests so is happily adapted to shade and dry conditions. |
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| The importance of gallery forests in the tropical lowlands of Costa Rica for understorey forest birds. |
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| Differential survival of Euselasia apisaon Dahman pupae at understorey plants in the Eucalyptus plantations of Belo Oriente, MG, Brazil. |
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| Decreased of canopy cover, understorey, brown waste, also plant roots and microbial diversities are affected by forest use change into rubber and oil palm plantations. |
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| Bruce Zavitz, Pinevest's tree consultant, characterized most of the table land's hardwood understorey as unhealthy and not useful for wildlife habitat. |
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| In situ responses to elevated C02 in tropical forest understorey plants. |
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