How To Use Conifer In A Sentence
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Evergreen plants, including dwarf conifers such as hemlocks, junipers, pines, and spruces, can form a backbone to anchor the design of a rock garden.
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It continues as an usual inland resort set in woodland of silver birches, rhododendrons and conifers.
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The only relief from this cold is that some of the trees in conifer forests seem to grow so close together that they encourage a microclimate, which usually has less extreme temperatures.
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The dominant conifers are Abies faxoniana, Picea asperata, P. wilsoni and purple-coned spruce P. purpurea (which is also being planted) with a sub-canopy of Betula albo-sinensisB. utilis, low Acer spp. and fountain bamboo Fargesia/Sinarundinaria nitida which suffered a major die-off after flowering in the 1970s and early 1980s, Fargesia denudata and F. chinensis.
Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area, China
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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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Many conifers produce oleoresin, a complex mixture of mono-, sesqui- and diterpenoids.
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† Some Bible translations use the term cypress or cedar wood, a softwood from a coniferous tree.
Modern Science in the Bible
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The plantation produces both conifers and deciduous trees for the Christmas tree and landscape markets.
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Her landscapes range from sweeping panoramas in oils of mountains, lakes and towering coniferous trees to tropical beaches with bold greens and spirited blues.
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The forests include such conifers as red spruce, black spruce, white spruce, balsam fir, red pine, jack pine, eastern white pine, tamarack, eastern white cedar, and eastern hemlock.
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Fire suppression has transformed open stands of old-growth species such as ponderosa pine to dense stands with understories of small-diameter conifers.
Beyond Old Growth~ Chapter 5
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Where Lowell lived, this consisted of low-lying conifers, alders, and gorsy thicket.
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The vegetation types of the mid-montane subzone are mixed mid-montane forest, Castanopsis forest, Nothofagus forest, coniferous forest, mid-montane swamp forest, mid-montane sedge-grass swamp, mid-montane Phragmites grass swamps, mid-montane Miscanthus grassland and succession on abandoned gardens.
Lorentz National Park, Indonesia
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In Germany huge swathes of the Black Forest died, leaving the stark outlines of leafless conifers in place of the formerly rich vegetation.
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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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The combination of warming temperatures and the fertilizing effect of increased carbon in the atmosphere could fuel a northward expansion of what is known as the boreal forest, the coniferous timber lands that run across the earth's northern latitudes and include forests in Canada, Finland, Russia and Sweden.
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A conifer plantation should not be less than 1 hectare is size.
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There are extensive conifer plantations and a nature reserve.
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Taxonomists can now say that the ferns' closest cousins are the seed plants - angiosperms (flowering plants) and gymnosperms (such as conifers).
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Cryic soils support mixed coniferous forests dominated by mountain hemlock, lodgepole pine, and Pacific silver fir; they are colder than the mesic and frigid soils of the Southern Cascades (4f).
Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
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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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On the whole, the best varieties of mushroom grow in wooded areas, whether deciduous, as for the cep and grisette, or coniferous, as for chanterelles and the Japanese matsutake and some kinds of boletus.
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The Northern Lakes and Forests is a region of nutrient poor glacial soils, coniferous and northern hardwood forests, undulating till plains, morainal hills, broad lacustrine basins, and extensive sandy outwash plains.
Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)
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Habitats in tropical and subtropical mountain forest, coniferous forest, forest edge grass, bamboo forest or savanna.
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The terrestrial flora around Padilla Bay, aside from the agricultural fields and diked areas, consists of second-growth forests of mixed conifers, broad leaf trees and occasional pastures.
Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington
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The preceding plants form a grade between the lineages considered in Lab 9 (conifers, Ginkgo and Cordaites) and the flowering plants and their kin.
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Older Palaeozoic rocks are represented by greenish grey slates from the sides of the Beardmore glacier and by radiolarian cherts; but the most widespread of the sedimentary rocks occurring in vast beds in the mountain faces is that named by Ferrar the Beacon sandstones, which in the far south Shackleton found to be banded with seams of shale and coal amongst which a fossil occurred which has been identified as coniferous wood and suggests that the place of the formation is Lower Carboniferous or perhaps Upper Devonian.
Perspective of Antarctica in 1911
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The most common forms included beech-like trees, poplars, willows, cattails, sumac, soapberry, and conifers such as pines, sequoias, and false cypress.
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Be ready to make a mercy dash after heavy snow, shaking it off the upward sweeping branches of conifers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Conifers tend to grow up straight, while broadleaves are more inclined to fork or produce multiple leaders stems.
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Woodland habitats are destroyed for agriculture or given over to beetle-browed conifers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vegetation dominated by low density stands of podocarp and taxodiod conifers grew on mobile braided alluvial plains where it was subject to regular catastrophic flooding events.
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A dozen native trees will be saved, including melaleucas, coolamons, conifers, a flame tree and a lilly pilly.
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The species are separated into the divisions Pteridophyta, Coniferophyta, and Magnoliophyta.
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Be ready to make a mercy dash after heavy snow, shaking it off the upward sweeping branches of conifers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of the existing wetlands are freshwater, coniferous scrub/shrub wetlands, with small palustrine forested wetland complexes as well as Atlantic White Cedar wetland complexes.
2009 March « Beachwood Historical Alliance
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There are graceful conifers such as the Kashmir cypress and great pines earning their keep as windbreaks.
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In "Crystal Palace" (2002, revised 2011), in what he calls an ode to "digital interlace," he disassembles a landscape of majestic snow-wreathed conifers at Lake Tahoe (and, briefly, a red house) into sharply differentiated parts and visual planes, isolating these elements in a way that brings to mind the individual layers of a paper diorama.
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There are both native woodland and conifer plantations which gives a rich mosaic of habitats for wildlife.
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Most conifers and a few hardwoods, such as sweetgum and tuliptree, have excurrent forms.
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The entrance to the house and gardens at this amazing attraction is a long winding road past mature stands of conifers and deciduous trees underplanted with flowering shrubs, ferns and wildflowers.
Your Happy Place « Fairegarden
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With their habitats gone these cannot survive, but the conifers and ferns do well in resisting environmental stress and will have an early boost in diversification.
EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
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On Sept. 10, 1994, a New South Wales naturalist named David Noble abseiled into one of the more than 500 canyons in Wollemi National Park -- some 60 miles east of the megalopolis of Sydney -- and discovered a stand of prehistoric coniferous Wollemi pines, representing the 110-million-year-old supercontinent of Gondwanaland.
Dr. Reese Halter: Climate Change and Australia's Living Pinosaur
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At ground level it comprises tracts of both dense and open-canopy forest dominated by conifers such as fir, larch, pine, and spruce, interleaved with boggy terrains.
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The sand here is stabilised by conifers but the suntrap path was illuminated by heavy bowers of broom and numerous orchids white to deepest purple.
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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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The charcoal consists entirely of pycnoxylic coniferopsid wood characterized by 30-40 m diameter tracheids with contiguous, oval, seriate, alternate, bordered pitting on their radial walls and blank tangential walls.
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It is a good time to buy and plant conifers and evergreens, summer-flowering bulbs and dahlia tubers.
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They emended the description of Behuninia as a conifer short shoot (instead of a seed) and added three new species, B. provoensis, B. bassii, and B. scottii.
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In the distance are several low wooden peasant houses, or izbas, and a dark strip of forest indicative of the vast coniferous taiga covering much of Russia.
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Woodland habitats are destroyed for agriculture or given over to beetle-browed conifers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Evergreen trees, including many conifers, support more leaf area than deciduous trees in the same environment.
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Deer with white rumps bounced over the road and bobbed up one flank and into conifers.
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Growing conifers is still important, but oaks, ash, and limes are now seen as a way of restoring ancient woodlands and promoting more diverse flora and fauna.
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A Your conifers are being attacked by cypress aphids, which cause brown patches of dead growth.
The Sun
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The result of investigation indicated that Pinus ponderosa has been introduced successfully with a promising features alien conifer. Its introduction could be extended in large.
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One damaged chestnut tree and five mature conifers had to be removed.
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Shards of pine palm and baby conifers added unwonted volume while steady backcombing against a succession of branches had created a Byzantine intricacy of form.
Archive 2007-03-01
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Leave the track here to the right and follow a wire fence which encloses a stand of conifers.
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At first it was just a dot in the valley below, perched on the topmost branch of a lightning-blasted conifer.
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Dominic Della Sala: "Denmark fits within a bioregion, an eco-region known as the Klamath-Siskyou, which is considered world-class by a number of ecological measures, the conifer richness, the uniqueness of place and the unusual number of species known nowhere else on Earth.
All Today's News - Sightline Daily
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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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Insects like Asian long-horned beetles and coniferous nematodes, says the website for Cherry's Industrial Equipment Corp., of Elk Grove, Ill., which sells plastic pallets.
Loaded Issue: Pallet Makers Sling Mud Over Who's Greenest
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Nests are usually built in deciduous trees, such as aspen, alder, cottonwood, or willow, but they may also be in firs or other conifers.
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He found that 300 coniferous tree stumps had not been treated with urea, which was the normal practice.
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Among the remnants are rare fragments of land life that survived the same period, including part of a conifer plant and the tooth of an archosaur reptile.
Fossil hunters uncover complete 252m year-old underwater world
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A Your conifers are being attacked by cypress aphids, which cause brown patches of dead growth.
The Sun
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Other conifers produce pollen with a single bladder.
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In Germany huge swathes of the Black Forest died, leaving the stark outlines of leafless conifers in place of the formerly rich vegetation.
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The ecoregion represents a southernmost latitudinal belt within the subzone of southern taiga in West Siberia which include mixed small-leaf-coniferous, small-leaf and coniferous grass forests.
West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests
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From the Monterey pine belt to bristlecone country, conifers yield cones whose tawny beauty is worth celebrating.
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The trees were tall conifers, and the ground was carpeted with soft brown needles.
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The Rocky Mountains in the west of the State are brown and arid during the summer months with sprinklings of coniferous trees on their parched slopes.
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Liverworts, hornworts, mosses, clubmosses, resurrection plants, quillworts, horsetails, ferns, cycads, ginkgos, conifers, and flowering plants are all plants.
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They do not need a wall and are happy to scramble over heathers, conifers, trees or hedges.
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The nursery offers other conifers, including Colorado blue spruce, deodar cedar, Douglas fir, and coast redwood.
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In marked contrast, needles of a variety of conifers are frequently abundant in peat and lake deposits.
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Nesting success is lower in conifer plantations that have fewer deciduous trees.
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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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They usually perch in the open at the very top of a conifer or snag or in a small tree.
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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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The square, brick-built house is hidden behind bank of conifers.
The Sun
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Greater anis live in tropical coniferous forests, where trees don't shed leaves.
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Sardar said only around 200 herding reindeer are left in the Mongolian taiga (northern coniferous forest) today.
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the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil
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They'd passed beyond the deciduous woods, and the trees on either side were conifers - larch, spruce and pine.
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The focal point of the park is the now defunct fountain, surrounded by conifers, oaks, planes, jacarandas, and tipiana trees dropping their yellow blossoms.
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Glades of beech and conifers provide deep cover.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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The subject dinosaurs tentatively identified as members of Maiasaura certainly had a peculiar diet: their coprolites were composed mostly of "fragmented conifer wood".
Archive 2008-12-01
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A brook gurgled by peacefully and there, nestled against the coniferous trees, was a hut.
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Blue mountain crests soar above dark realms of virgin forest, where the sombre conifers exude the precious _damar_, which glues itself to the red trunks in shining lumps often of twenty pounds 'weight, or sinks deeply into the soft soil, from whence the solidified gum needs excavation.
Through the Malay Archipelago
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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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Canids and, to a lesser extent, felids are present in the Tundran, Coniferan, and Deciduan subregions always as continuous carnivores.
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Mr. Quekett, having kindly examined some specimens, finds that it is “silicified CONIFEROUS WOOD of the ARAUCARIAN type; and the nearest allied wood that he knows of is that found, also in a fossil state, in New South Wales.”
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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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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Shredded leaves, conifer boughs, or straw all work well as winter mulch.
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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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In conifers, for example, the diterpene content of resin has a direct influence on the rate of resin crystallization.
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One damaged chestnut tree and five mature conifers had to be removed.
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It claims the world's only parasitic conifer and nearly two-thirds off the world's species of Araucaria trees, all of which are endemic.
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When Northwest coniferous forests are clear-cut, hardwoods are often the first trees to grow in their place.
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The leaf man trough, meant to be a nice deep round hypertufa but most of the sides fell off from being unmolded too soon, is now home to miniature conifers, Juniperus horizontalis ‘Blue Pygmy’, Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Nana lutea’, silver Thymus ‘Heigh-Ho Silver’ and Armeria ‘Nifty Thrifty’.
December Foliage « Fairegarden
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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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Tolerant of cold winds and frost, its height makes it an ideal pot plant in a mixed bed of carpeting heathers and ground-covering conifers.
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Of course, they were all mixed up with other conifers and deciduous flowering plants, but they were often the dominant group.
EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
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Groves of golden aspen, flowery meadows, ponds, and outcrops of limestone break up the dominance of the regal coniferous forest.
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From an intrusive overlying wacke in the neighborhood of Linlithgow I have derived for my collection pieces of carbonized wood in so complete a state of keeping, that under the microscope they exhibit unbroken all the characteristic reticulations of the coniferæ of the Coal Measures.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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The most common forms included beech-like trees, poplars, willows, cattails, sumac, soapberry, and conifers such as pines, sequoias, and false cypress.
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Victoria Land consists of a vast, ancient complex of crystalline schists and granitic rocks, large extents of which are covered by a sandstone formation (“Beacon Sandstone,” Ferrar), on the whole horizontally bedded, which is at least 1,500 feet thick, and in which Shackleton found seams of coal and fossil wood (a coniferous tree).
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912
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This walk follows a circular route around an irregularly shaped tarn, through broadleaf woodland and shady conifers and across grassy knolls nibbled by sheep.
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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 employment creation potential of broadleaves exceeds that of conifers given the greater range of end use applications that can be serviced by hardwoods.
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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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This piece of woodland contrasts dramatically with the conifer plantation on the other side of the bridge.
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Cycad fragments can be easily overlooked as petrified conifer wood.
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‘If you want to plant a tree along a motorway, a coniferous variety will obviously be a better choice,’ he explains.
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They look great planted with dwarf conifers, especially when a variety of shapes, colors and textures are used.
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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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Crossbills and squirrels both feed on the seeds of conifer cones - a dietary triangle that sets the stage for intriguing evolutionary interactions.
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Originally classified as a conifer, scientists later argued that it was instead a lichen, various types of algae or a fungus.
Archive 2007-04-01
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Although I have no idea where this is, the image recalls distinctly Canadian memories of coniferous forests that have shed all its needles, creating a soft rust-coloured bed of them.
Friday Photography « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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A number of other invertebrate species, including beetles, harvestman, spiders, millipedes, and freshwater mussels are specialists on habitats modified by old Redwood and other conifer forests and maintain very local distributions.
Northern California coastal forests
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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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The destination is Al-Bustan or ‘garden’: a Palestinian neighbourhood in the pit of the Silwan valley, covering 64 dunams, crested by a mosque, decked by conifer trees and home to 1,000 Palestinians.
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Across the tracks we bought honey, walked the woods by the river and climbed through conifers to top out at wild grasslands with swallows, yellowhammers and smooth views over an eternity of wheat.
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The consultation is silent, too, on the need to preserve programmes to replant former ancient woodlands, now under conifer, with broadleaf trees.
Forestry Commission: Facing the chop | Editorial
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These conifers form stands of large tall trees that are interspaced with more classical broadleafed evergreen forests that are dominated by oaks (Quercus).
Central American montane forests
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They take us on a journey of discovery through the park—from the magnificent stands of tall trees to the low alpine boronias and conifers of the snow fields and the crystal clear lakes providing water for Hobart.
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On land, the vegetation generally consisted of conifers, cycads, ginkgos, ferns and horsetails.
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Since plant communities could influence soil processes, the plots were stratified into two broad vegetation classes: conifer and hardwood.
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The coniferous forests of the taiga make up 27 percent of the world's forests.
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Evergreen trees, including many conifers, support more leaf area than deciduous trees in the same environment.
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Conifers are very useful for architectural shape, for a piney scent on a sunny day, for playing hide and seek around, and for a surprising variety of green, from dark bottle to turquoise.
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We looked specifically for evidence of such movement in Western Tanagers because, as coniferous forest breeders, up-slope movements would take them to more productive habitats in the same biome.
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Between 10,000 and 6000 feet are woods of the beautiful and charming conifer called the Himalayan cedar, which is allied to the cedar of Lebanon.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
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All are supplied from his exotic collection of hundreds of different bamboos plus palms, tree ferns, grasses, unusual evergreens and rare conifers.
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It is a good time to buy and plant conifers and evergreens, summer-flowering bulbs and dahlia tubers.
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It has been known that the self - sterility of conifers results from embryo collapse after self - fertilization.
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Some areas were planted with alien conifers but these are slowly being replaced by native broadleaf trees that would have historically been found in the forest.
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Now the conifers are being felled and replaced by deciduous woodland, but woodland birds and butterflies have not yet arrived.
Times, Sunday Times
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According to the investigations of these expeditions, South Victoria Land consists of a vast, ancient complex of crystalline schists and granitic rocks, large extents of which are covered by a sandstone formation ( "Beacon Sandstone," Ferrar), on the whole horizontally bedded, which is at least 1,500 feet thick, and in which Shackleton found seams of coal and fossil wood (a coniferous tree).
The South Pole~ Fram Expedition Geology
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Now we were driving through bleak glens with stunted conifers, gushing ice-melt streams and mist snagged in tattered veils on the crags like the wraiths of lost warriors.
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Now the hop trade has dwindled and chestnuts are being replaced by conifers.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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The Berber thuya is one of only two Mediterranean conifer species that can be transformed into coppice woodlands (the Canary pine species (Pinus canariensis), endemic to some Macronesian Atlantic islands is the other).
Mediterranean woodlands and forests
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Conifers resemble monocots rather than dicots in leaf development.
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Most species of Metagentiana are herbaceous local endemics growing in alpine scrub, meadows and coniferous forests.
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The most common forms included beech-like trees, poplars, willows, cattails, sumac, soapberry, and conifers such as pines, sequoias, and false cypress.
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In Washington, these are often located at openings within coniferous forests, clear-cuts, wetlands, rivers, and along brushy hillsides, at low to middle elevations.
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The conifers were felled on the 12 hectare site after it became a hotspot for 'dogging' - where people have sex with strangers while being watched.
P2pnet news
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For those who prefer ‘tailored’, a smart alternative would be pots planted with clipped evergreens, box, bay or conifers.
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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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You can grow dwarf conifers in pots on the patio.
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Study on soil ecological process is helpful to deeply reveal the function of forest ecosystem, and is one of the most challenging fields in all ecological processes of subalpine coniferous forests.
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Climbing the steep pastures beyond Steps Farm, aiming for the dark fringe of conifers that rim the top of Revidge, the dominant flowers were yarrow, alias milfoil or "thousand leaves" because of the tiny segments into which these are divided.
Country diary
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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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It contains narcissi and a slow-growing conifer, which will soon be too big.
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Deer with white rumps bounced over the road and bobbed up one flank and into conifers.
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Conifers had suffered the most damage, while oak and silver birch were also badly affected.
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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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Even in dense broadleaf forest away from dark conifers and shrubs "moldy oak" will silhouette like hell.
The Best Camo for Hunting Away from Home
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Conifers are seed plants; they include pines, firs, yew, redwood, and many other large trees.
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Although they are classified as coniferous forests, it is important to understand that these forests also include deciduous broad-leaved trees that may form a lower canopy through which the conifers emerge.
Qionglai-Minshan conifer forests
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Winter Wrens breed in moist coniferous forests and nest in dense brush especially along stream banks.
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Conservationists are unhappy about the prospect of conifer plantations taking over more wilderness areas of Britain.
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After a long traverse the path turns right and enters a stand of conifers.
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Based on their data, the authors make several broad conclusions with management implications: Our data show that postfire logging, by removing naturally seeded conifers and increasing surface fuel loads, can be counter-productive to goals of forest regeneration and fuel reduction.
Archive 2006-01-01
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He found that he was whistling tunelessly as the endless forests beneath the van slowly changed from blackwort and devilwood to the local conifer-equivalents: iceroot, creeping willow, _hierba_.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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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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Heidiphyllum elongatum was probably a relatively low-growing shrubby voltzialean conifer that formed dominant to monospecific thickets in areas of higher water table on a floodplain, or on sandbars within the braided river channels.
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If you go to other parts of the planet at similar latitudes and with similar climates, you may find different species of conifers or lycopodia or seed-eating birds, but you'll find _similar_ species making up an ecosystem overall so much like the other that an untrained observer may not notice the difference.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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Voice over Imaculate conifers dominate this garden.
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Many modern conifers produce saccate pollen.
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Beginning with the cryptogams, the system proceeds from the monocotyledon to the dicotyledon, and closes with the coniferæ.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Mountain Chickadees are typically found in dry coniferous forests, especially Ponderosa and lodgepole pines.
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Boreal forests occupy the subarctic zone and are generally evergreen and coniferous.
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Trough gardens are ideal places to display tiny horticultural treasures: dwarf conifers, alpines, miniature succulents, and other precious little plants.
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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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Even the slowest growing of trees eventually reach a large size - only truly dwarf conifers will remain small.
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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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Nests are usually built in deciduous trees, such as aspen, alder, cottonwood, or willow, but they may also be in firs or other conifers.
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The Berber thuya is a very old and endemic North African conifer species, whose closest relatives (Callitris sp.) are currently found in South Africa and Australia.
Mediterranean woodlands and forests
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The huge evergreen family includes botanicals such as European mistletoe, rosemary, cloves, allspice and holly, as well as conifers, including pines, cedars and cypress.
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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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Very early spring is one of the best times to visit the garden - not only are the snowdrops and cyclamen flowering, but the foliage of certain conifers is more golden than at other times of year.
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Here, within the same geographical limits of the north temperate zone, and with the far simpler scheme of surface relief which characterizes the New World, we have civilizations as different as those of the Eskimo, the Algonkin peoples of the coniferous forests, the Huron and Iroquois of the deciduous hardwoods, horticultural Muscogeans in the south-east, buffalo-hunting Sioux on the prairie, predatory Apaches and
The Unity of Civilization
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What you will need to make the night bearable is some conifer boughs from another tree to use as bedding.
What is the best kind of shelter for a snowy environment?
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Second, adults and juveniles of species that mainly breed in high elevation western coniferous forests are not expected to move to the Mexican monsoon region for their fall molts.
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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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She has found that air pollution has significantly weakened conifers such as ponderosa pines and Jeffrey pines, making them more susceptible to drought and bark-beetle attacks, and less resistant to fire (see the abstract "Air Pollution Increases Forest Susceptibility to Wildfires: A Case Study in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California" by Grulke, Minnich et al).
Chris McGowan: A Clockwork Apocalypse: The Southern California Wildfire
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The greatest changes in albedo are likely to occur after increases in area relative to tundra vegetation of the following vegetation types (in decreasing order of effect): dark, evergreen boreal trees such as pine and spruce, deciduous conifer trees such as larch, deciduous angiosperm trees such as birch, and low shrubs such as willows and dwarf birch.
Effects of climate change on landscape and regional processes and feedbacks to the climate system in the Arctic
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It doesn't feel like it did half an hour ago, before we found the pile of dung, shafts of light coming through the spaces between maples and conifers and filtered sun dappling the ground.
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Conifers predominate in the forests of Canada, and amongst those conifers spruce is by far the most abundant growth.
The Forest Wealth of Canada
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On the other hand the upper reaches of the river that are covered by larch, dark coniferous and stone birch forests, provide refuge for capercaillie Tetrao parvirostris and Siberian spruce grouse Falcipennis falcipennis*.
Central Sikhote-Alin, Russian Federation
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Dogwoods and conifers were carefully planted to create a dramatic, modern Scottish garden with a pretty waterfall at the bottom.
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On the opener spots beneath the trees the ground is covered to a depth of two or three feet with mosses of indescribable freshness and beauty, a few dwarf conifers often planted on their rich furred bosses, together with pyrola, coptis, and Solomon's-seal.
Travels in Alaska
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Evergreen plants, including dwarf conifers such as hemlocks, junipers, pines, and spruces, can form a backbone to anchor the design of a rock garden.
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The site is reached today by helicopter or on foot through swamps, bogs and hilly taiga (a northern region of vast coniferous forests composed of spruce, larch and fir.)
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At the end of summer, squirrels store unopened conifer cones on hoarding sites (called middens) located centrally on the territory.
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This is beautifully landscaped and laid out so the customer can see what the heathers, conifers and shrubs he is planning to buy will look like in a garden.
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They range from mature broadleaf forests, which are considered ideal settings for medieval Robin Hood-type productions, to coniferous woodlands which can pass for North American settings.
