coniferous

How To Use coniferous In A Sentence

• † Some Bible translations use the term cypress or cedar wood, a softwood from a coniferous tree. Modern Science in the Bible
• Her landscapes range from sweeping panoramas in oils of mountains, lakes and towering coniferous trees to tropical beaches with bold greens and spirited blues.
• 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
• 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. Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed
• 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)
• 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.
• 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)
• Habitats in tropical and subtropical mountain forest, coniferous forest, forest edge grass, bamboo forest or savanna.
• 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
• 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