Definitions

1. Vegetation is dominated by mosses, lichens, dwarf trees and scattered woody shrubs.
2. Vegetation is generally luxuriant throughout the islands, with giant fern forests in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
3. Vegetation is diverse, ranging from moist miombo woodland in the western hills, to dry savannah in the east with prominent thickets along the riverbanks.
4. Vegetation is very diffuse but fairly evenly distributed, with some interruptions of near sterile dunes.
5. Vegetation is herbaceous, with a low frequency of sand-binding species.

Thick Vegetation

1. Leiobunum daddy-long-legs are almost always present around trees, shrubs, or any thick vegetation in Kentucky during warm months. (Web site)
2. Meedhupparu Island Resort is in RAA atoll which spreads over 43 acres of land base, has a lush and thick vegetation all around.
3. The thick vegetation of the Periyar wildlife sanctuary provides both excellent cover and nourishment in the form of succulent shoots and grasses. (Web site)

Vegetation Cover

1. This points out the sensitivity of forest and vegetation cover in different regions of Iran.
2. The rocks formed at that time were stained red by iron oxides, the result of intense heating by the sun of a surface devoid of vegetation cover.
3. A general term for any poorly-drained, uncultivated tract, whatever its vegetation cover and soil.

Luxuriant Vegetation

1. Although the climate is rather dry, you'll find a luxuriant vegetation that made her the home of sugar cane and subsequently of rum distilling. (Web site)
2. It has been called as "the Garden of the Aegean" since this island has a luxuriant vegetation.
3. The Blue Mountains: A land of soaring peaks and deep valleys with luxuriant vegetation, the Blue Mountain range rises to the north of Kingston.

Dense Tropical Vegetation

1. A mature island with dense tropical vegetation and tall coconut palms, you can wander into the trees and loose yourself amongst them if you like.

Lush Green Vegetation

1. Kuramathi is an island with lush green vegetation.
2. The green color on the national flag of Vanuatu symbolizes the lush green vegetation and crop growing lands. (Web site)

Vegetation Type

1. The numerous field methods employed by vegetation scientists typically vary with vegetation type.

Vegetation Types

1. Grasses are one of the largest, most diverse families of plants, found worldwide in virtually all climatic regimes and vegetation types. (Web site)
2. Sumatra supports a wide range of vegetation types which are home to a rich variety of species, including 17 endemic genera of plants.
3. Hanson, H.C. 1953. Vegetation types in northwestern Alaska and comparisons with communities in other arctic regions. (Web site)

Decaying Vegetation

1. It grows and flourishes in decaying vegetation, soil, certain foods, dust, and water. (Web site)
2. These spores are found worldwide, especially around riverbanks, marshes, bogs, forests, and wherever there is wet or decaying vegetation. (Web site)
3. In addition, there is no doubt that decaying vegetation produces methane; it bubbles up in swamps.

Natural Ecosystems

1. Natural ecosystems also produce vegetation used directly by humans as food, timber, fuelwood, fiber, pharmaceuticals and industrial products.

Native Vegetation

1. Japanese knotweed spreads quickly to form dense thickets that exclude native vegetation and greatly alter natural ecosystems. (Web site)
2. One basis has been the presumed genesis of the soil; climate and native vegetation were given major emphasis.
3. Only about 10% of the area of Robinson Crusoe retains its native vegetation of evergreen trees, tree ferns, ferns, etc.

Coconut Palms

1. The island comprises of a thick vegetation of coconut palms a surrounded by powdery beach which extends to one side of the island.

Tropical Vegetation

1. The island is in a triangular shape with tropical vegetation and each side has a very different beach. (Web site)
2. The one-kilometre beach about 500 metres south of Pantai Cenang, follows a scenic coastline with a backdrop of lush, tropical vegetation.
3. Basse Casamance is famous for its tropical vegetation and a variety of wildlife, including rare antelopes and many species of monkeys.

Lichens

1. In fact, lichens dominate the vegetation in some areas.

Fungus

1. Possible cause: Environmental pollutants; vegetation, fungus or algae; loss of granules due to age of shingles.
2. Fairy ring fungus thrives on dead vegetation under the surface of the grass including old tree stumps and thatch. (Web site)
3. In the wild, the fungus tends to grow on decaying vegetation and wood. (Web site)

Organic Matter

1. Woodlice are quite harmless and in fact beneficial in their proper habitat by promoting the breakdown of dead vegetation and organic matter in the soil. (Web site)
2. Slow combustion of vegetation and organic matter was widespread after the eruption in all the areas affected by Nyiragongo lava flows.
3. They are typically light in color as there is little vegetation to add organic matter to the soil profile.

Nutrients

1. The ashes from the burned vegetation provide nutrients to the soil (fertilize the soil) for the planting of both staple and cash crops. (Web site)

Berries

1. It also has one of the highest concentrations of brown bears, feeding on the salmon, as well as berries and other vegetation. (Web site)

Extinction

1. Introduced rabbits removed vegetation from Laysan Island, leading to the extinction of an endemic rail and two of the island's three songbirds.
2. The peregrine, which is threatened with extinction here, needs steep rock outcrops with little vegetation. (Web site)
3. Keith, DA (1996) Fire-driven mechanisms of extinction in vascular plants: a review of empirical and theoretical evidence in Australian vegetation.

Rain

1. Different kinds of vegetation lead to different infiltration rates of rain into the soil.

Barren Land

1. Examples include vegetation, exposed or barren land, water, snow, and ice.

Places

1. The island is pretty small but very steep in places and the vegetation is much springier and taller than on Skomer.
2. In most places the bedrock or superficial deposits are covered by a mantle of soil and vegetation and cannot be seen or examined closely. (Web site)
3. The Eastern Cape is the only province in South Africa, and one of the few places on Earth, where all seven biomes (major vegetation types) converge. (Web site)

Extent

1. He can also measure the extent of burned areas by using weather satellites to examine the die-back of vegetation.

Flowering Plants

1. Surrounding the beach is lush, dense tropical vegetation and flowering plants (it gets plenty of rain here). (Web site)

Vines

1. Size: 705 hectares of natural vegetation and 14 hectares of vines.

Dominican Republic

1. The Riu Merengue All Inclusive Resort in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, stands surrounded by mountains and 18,000 square yards of tropical vegetation. (Web site)

Adonis

1. Adonis, as a Dying God Archetype, represents the cycle of vegetation.

Herbivores

1. Nearly all Woodlice are herbivores and many feed on dead and rotting vegetation, or the microbial flora that infests such material. (Web site)

Predators

1. Judging from their local abundance, the lynx spiders are among the major predators of insects occurring in low shrubs and herbaceous vegetation.
2. Keep the shoreline of ponds free of emergent vegetation to minimize cover for adult frogs and allow predators to assist in control.

Snails

1. Crabs have diverse diets: some are scavengers; others are predators on clams and snails; and still others are herbivores, feeding on vegetation. (Web site)
2. Food: Vegetation and bottom living insect larvae, snails, crustaceans and worms.

Impacts

1. The refrigerant, which in this case is R134a, contributes significantly to photochemical ozone formation (impacts on vegetation).
2. The structure and composition of these vegetation types reflects the impacts of disturbance on the one hand, and of physiological stresses on the other.

Moist

1. Such vegetation grows in places where summers are hot and dry and winters are cool and moist.
2. The luxuriant vegetation of the moist, subtropical Black Sea shores is relatively close to the eternal snows of the mountain peaks.

Summit

1. Although the lower regions of Merapi Volcano are densely vegetated, the area around the summit is free of vegetation, thanks to recurring eruptions.
2. Note: Aerial and ground inspections of the summit at Lamington in 1991 showed a dense canopy of vegetation; with only a few scattered thermal areas.
3. As you travel west, you will pass Cerro Maravilla, its flanks carpeted with lush vegetation and a silvery forest of communication towers crowning its summit.

Lava

1. The spareness of vegetation on the most recent lava flows on Anatahan indicate that they are of Holocene age (Meijer and Reagan 1981).
2. Many lava flows are still visible as few are rapidly recolonized by tropical vegetation on the island.
3. Lava flows An aa lava flow overruns vegetation during the 1984 eruption. (Web site)

Variety

1. The vegetation of the Dalrymple National Park is mainly woodlands including a variety of eucalypts.
2. The town's varying altitude shades it with a variety of vegetation that includes stately grooves of pines, deodars, oaks and flowering rhododendrowns. (Web site)
3. The lake has dense vegetation, which in turn supports a variety of birds. (Web site)

Feed

1. They feed on living microorganisms, such as bacteria and yeasts, as well as decaying vegetation. (Web site)
2. Later it blocks the entrance with soil and vegetation, and then digs to a new crater nearby to feed there. (Web site)
3. Most slugs, including Limax, Ariolimax, and Arion, are herbivorous and feed on a variety of vegetation.

Insects

1. The first foods steelhead will consume are usually plankton, crustaceans, vegetation, and insects. (Web site)
2. It takes insects such as ants, leafhoppers and wasps in the coral rubble and leaf litter, also taking some vegetation. (Web site)

Mangroves

1. The amazing shades of green of the vegetation that include mangroves, coconut palms, and paddy fields cover the verdant countryside. (Web site)
2. Vegetation types in the Sulu Archipelago originally included beach forest, lowland rain forest, scrub forest, and mangroves (Stattersfield et al.

Rivers

1. It also uses small potholes, sloughs, and beaver flowages near larger wooded lakes or rivers with submerged and emergent vegetation.
2. Located facing the Atlantic, Cabrera has one of the most beautiful beaches, rivers, exotic vegetation and many natural attractions. (Web site)
3. Chalakudy River is the one of very few rivers of Kerala, which is having relics of riparian vegetation in substantial level. (Web site)

Limestone

1. Bukit is basically a gigantic piece of limestone, which is why vegetation is sparse.
2. Terra Rossa - This usually occurs in depression s within the limestone or in Mediterranean areas where the vegetation is garrigue(eg. (Web site)
3. The smaller islands are coral, limestone, or sand cays, with small pockets of tropical vegetation.

Eggs

1. They also apparently ingest some plant material when living in estuaries, mangroves, and rivers including leaves, rice, and eggs deposited on vegetation.
2. Eggs are almost always laid in a body of water, although some frogs will lay eggs on vegetation which hangs over a river or other body of water. (Web site)
3. Preferred foods include crayfish, crabs, shellfish, reptiles, eggs (both bird and reptilian), and vegetation such as fruits, nuts, and berries.

Maldives

1. The tropical vegetation of Maldives comprises groves of breadfruit trees and coconut palms towering above dense scrub, shrubs, and flowers. (Web site)
2. The beaches are more pristine and the vegetation more lush than anywhere else in the Maldives.
3. Set on a remote island rich with vegetation and white sand, the Kanuhura Resort in Maldives is a private hideaway with nearby scuba diving.

Lagoon

1. The thick tropical vegetation grows generously and undisturbed in most parts of the island and the surrounding beaches and lagoon are in excellent condition.
2. Late morning you will continue to the province of Salta, returning to subtropical vegetation you will visit a tropical forest and lagoon.
3. Lush vegetation and simple living punctuate the lives of the lagoon. (Web site)

Ponds

1. Management Suggestions The Green Frog prefers ponds, floodplain swamps or marshy habitat with grassy edges and emergent vegetation.

Gardens

1. Although some land snails cause economic losses by destroying vegetation, even more harm is done to gardens by slugs.

Canary Islands

1. Compared to other areas of the Canary Islands, the peninsula has less vegetation. (Web site)

Dionysus

1. DIONYSUS was not the only Greek deity whose tragic story and ritual appear to reflect the decay and revival of vegetation. (Web site)

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