How To Use Xeric In A Sentence
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Most soils are dominated by quartz sand, and are acidic, xeric, and have a very limited nutrient supply; they are coarser, drier, less fertile, and less suited to agriculture than the mesic soils of Ecoregion 84d.
Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
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deserts provide xeric environments
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Xeric and halophyte shrublands, grasslands, riverine shrublands, coastal lagoons.
Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands
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Communities range from xeric habitats such as scrub and scrubby flatwoods to hydric habitats such as floodplain forest and blackwater stream.
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The western and northern boundaries and are delineated by mangroves and the Atlantic Ocean, while the eastern boundary occurs along a precipitation gradient - bordering xeric scrub and scrublands in the north, llanos and wetlands in the central portions, and moist forests in the south.
Orinoco Delta swamp forests
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Alfisols, Entisols, Inceptisols, Mollisols, Ultisols and Vertisols in combination with thermic, isothermic or mesic soil temperature regimes and xeric, ustic or aquic soil moisture regimes.
Southern California Coast (Bailey)
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Xeric and halophyte shrublands, grasslands, riverine shrublands.
Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands
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At this elevation, the dominant plant communities are pine-oak-juniper scrub in xeric areas and sycamore-cottonwood-walnut forest along the mesic creek bottoms.
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Wildebeest and hartebeest, which spend the wetter months along the boundary between Ghanzi and Kgalagadi (in the Kalahari Xeric Savanna ecoregion), move northeast towards the Central Kalahari Game Reserve during the dry season.
Zambezian halophytics
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The broadly distributed woodlouse, Armadillidium vulgare is a common representative of mesic to mesic-xeric habitats.
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Although apogamy is an adaptation that enables reproduction in xeric environments, cheilanthoid ferns possess xeromorphic adaptations that explain their survival in xeric habitats.
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They are characterized by several community types: xeric shrublike woodlands, juniper woodlands, and mesophytic riparian forest.
Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe
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The broad, xeric intermontane Wyoming Basin (18) is punctuated by high hills and low mountains and dominated by grasslands and shrublands.
Ecoregions of Montana (EPA)
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Communities range from xeric habitats such as scrub and scrubby flatwoods to hydric habitats such as floodplain forest and blackwater stream.
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Another formation is the xeric alpine meadow dominated by chamaephytes, caespitose, and hemicryphytes.
Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests
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These dry forests form the transitional habitat between the caatinga xeric shrublands and cerrado ecoregions of eastern Brazil.
Atlantic dry forests
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Alfisols, Entisols, Inceptisols, Mollisols, Ultisols and Vertisols in combination with isomesic, mesic or thermic soil temperature regimes and xeric, udic, ustic or aquic soil moisture regimes.
Central California Coast (Bailey)
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Xeric oak scrub communities are pyrogenic, so their flora and fauna have developed adaptations to fire.
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Alfisols, Inceptisols, Mollisols, Spodosols (Pygmy Forest), Ultisols and Vertisols in combination with isomesic, mesic or thermic soil temperature regimes, and aquic, udic, ustic or xeric (moist end of range) soil moisture regimes.
Northern California Coast (Bailey)
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The southern transect spanned principally xeric habitats, whereas the eastern crossed mesic forest.
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The south-facing side of the range receives lower rainfall, greater solar exposure and consequently a xeric vegetation type, steppic grassland, which is typical of the central Valais.
Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland
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Soil temperature regimes are thermic, and soil moisture regimes are xeric.
Coastal Terraces (Bailey)
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Soil slightly hilled around a spiraling path of stone serves as raised flower beds to help encourage drainage -- a critical element in xeric garden design, so that roots of dryness-loving plants don't sit in water.
Giving Up On Grass
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Todies occupy virtually all forested habitats on the island of Puerto Rico, from the relatively cool rain forests of the northeastern mountains to the hot xeric scrub forests of the southwest coast.
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The southern transect spanned principally xeric habitats, whereas the eastern crossed mesic forest.
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The spray-forest is vulnerable to disturbance by trampling, which allows penetration by ruderal species such as Lantana camara, and when grossly disturbed the forest does not regenerate easily, giving way to xeric scrub.
Mosi-oa-Tunya Victoria Falls, Zambia
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Males are more common in harsher environments, such as xeric, nutrient-poor or shaded conditions.
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Given the pedological characteristics of this site, xeric morphological adaptation may be attributed to edaphic factors rather than climatic variables.
