How To Use Crowberry In A Sentence
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This is a diverse community of ferns, sedges, grasses, angiosperms and mosses and is dominated by B. palmiforme, crowberry Empetrum rumbrum, grasses and sedges.
Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom
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The sweet-scented geranium abounded and so did the crowberry, which is a finer and sweeter kind than that which grows nearer the settlement.
Three Years in Tristan da Cunha
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The dwarf scrub communities are dominated by crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) and include other ericads (Vaccinium spp.), arctic willow (Salix arctica), and white mountain-avens (Dryas octopetala).
Alaska Peninsula montane taiga
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Bog whortleberry (or bog bilberry – '' Vaccinium uliginosum ''), lingonberry, and mountain crowberry showed increases in leaf ice nucleation temperature exceeding 2.5 °C whereas bilberry showed no significant effect, as in another study [99].
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
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In contrast, K. Taulavuori et al. [115], found decreased frost resistance in bilberry in response to elevated UV-B radiation levels and Beerling et al. [116] showed decreased frost resistance in bog whortleberry, lingonberry, and mountain crowberry.
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
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Wet meadows have abundant grasses, sedges, and rushes, while low-growing shrubs include black crowberry, mountain cranberry, shrubby cinquefoil, and three dwarf willows.
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It comprised mostly subalpine ground with tallish heather, blaeberry, and crowberry, with some patches of short heath.
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A faint track through the crowberry scrub led to a rightwards sloping ramp of black slabs which seemed to give way to a series of zig-zags amongst some large blocks.
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Laine [60] showed that the reproduction of bilberry ( '' Vaccinium myrtillus '') depended to some extent on the climate in the previous years (see section 14.7.3 for examples of this in trees), whereas Shevtsova et al. [61] showed no such response for co-occurring lingonberry and crowberry ( '' Empetrum nigrum '').
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
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It consists chiefly of low mats of such herbaceous and shrubby species as dwarf arctic birch, crowberry, Labrador-tea, arctic willow, resin birch, and dwarf blueberry.
Brooks Range Tundra - Polar Desert Province (Bailey)
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A faint track through the crowberry scrub led to a rightwards sloping ramp of black slabs which seemed to give way to a series of zig-zags amongst some large blocks.
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Who needs rest? A couple of bears who'll beat the other bears to Crowberry Ridge.
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Four dwarf shrubs were studied over the first three years of the experiment; one, the deciduous bilberry, showed increased annual stem growth (length) in the first year whereas two other evergreen dwarf shrubs (mountain crowberry – '' Empetrum hermaphroditum '' and lingonberry) showed reduced growth.
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
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The dwarf scrub communities are dominated by crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) and include other ericads (Vaccinium spp.), arctic willow (Salix arctica), and white mountain-avens (Dryas octopetala).
Alaska Peninsula montane taiga
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Mountain crowberry and lingonberry showed no responses to enhanced UV-B radiation levels after seven years of exposure whereas bog whortleberry and bilberry showed few responses (Table 7.6).
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
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Juniper berries, which were particularly good with meat if they didn't use too many, were prevalent; rose hips were more sporadic, but usually plentiful when found, and always sweeter after freezing; creeping crowberry, with a needlelike evergreen foliage, had small shiny black berries that often persisted through the winter, as did blue bearberries and red lingonberries.
The Plains of Passage
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Typical species are dwarf birch Betula nana, Arctic crowberry Empetrum nigrum ssp. hermaphroditum and Arctic blueberry Vaccinium uliginosum ssp. microphyllum.
Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland
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Rarest and most unexpected of those are broom crowberry, a wiry shrub with crowded, quarter-inch-long leaves and black berries, and curly grass, a fern that has small curly leaves that look like immature grass.
