(1) My nearest forest, Dartmoor, was almost treeless in medieval times; like much of England, its woodland cover has increased dramatically over the last 80 years through natural regeneration and planting.
(2) This particular shovel is one of the largest shovels you can buy, and that is the largest truck you can buy.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Video: Look inside Peabody’s North Antelope Rochelle, the world’s biggest coalmine By Durgin’s rough estimate, the mine occupies 100 square miles of high treeless prairie, about the same size as Washington DC.
(3) The high northern latitudes are warming more rapidly than other parts of the Earth, with climate models predicting a northward shift of Arctic vegetation that will see the boreal biome (coniferous forest across North America and Eurasia) migrate into what is currently tundra (treeless plains of the Arctic).
(4) No one knows exactly how many thousands of tonnes of trees are lost a year, but at estimated present rates the reserve could be like much of the land between it and the coast – semi-desert, treeless and barren of animals – within 20 years.
(5) One of the few who can is LJ Turner, whose grandfather and father homesteaded on the high treeless plains nearly a century ago.
(6) The moors of north Lewis are desolate in midwinter, a treeless expanse of ochre grasses and rich black peat, pummelled by Arctic winds driving in from the north Atlantic.
(7) Jacobs' disciples would reclaim the treeless innercity spaces of Manhattan, Berlin, Glasgow and many others that had been demonised for decades.
(8) He watched crews load up a pickup truck with bolts of fabric from Pakistan and table-size boxes of cut flowers from the Netherlands, before the trucks headed off through the treeless mountains to Khasab port.
(9) Photograph: Ronald Reategui On the hardscrabble, treeless highland plain that joins Peru with Bolivia, farmers have eked out an existence for thousands of years amid bitter winters and the harsh sun, at 4,000 metres above sea level and higher.
(10) The signs of environmental stress grow as the world's population increases: worn-out farmlands, eroded hillsides, polluted water, parched grasslands, smoke-laden air, depleted ozone, and treeless ranges.
(11) The three heated wooden wigwams are the glamping option, built from sustainable sitka or Norway spruce grown in Scotland, and bedded into the treeless landscape.
(12) The loss of the treeless tundra will greatly reduce suitable habitat area for species such as the Siberian crane , which requires open ground to nest.
(13) It was a day of high emotion, both in the UK and on the bleak, treeless islands, as heads were bowed in memory of the 255 British military and merchant navy personnel, the three Falkland islanders and estimated 650 Argentinian soldiers who died during the 74-day war.
(14) The name Edge of the Cedars come from the park's location between the densely forested Manti-La Sal national forest and the treeless desert to the east, a prime habitat for early human settlement.
(15) Though their island – a treeless patch of Italy 70 miles off the African coast – has at times been turned into a refugee camp, most Lampedusans have reacted with generosity and tolerance towards the migrants.
Tundra
Definition:
(n.) A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Strains of the causative agent of tularemia were for the first time isolated by the authors from the objects of the external environment in the tundra zone of Eastern Taimir; this indicates a possibility of preservation of the microbe under conditions of the extreme north.
(2) Drainage melioration in the Polesye resulted in a sharp increase in the number of tundra vole (Microtus oeconomus Pall.)
(3) Mosquito-borne arboviruses are prevalent throughout subarctic regions of Canada and Alaska, principally in the boreal forest extending between latitudes 53 and 66 degrees N, but they have been identified in tundra regions as far north as 70 degrees N. All mosquito-borne agents have been bunyaviruses, comprising principally the snowshoe hare subtype of California encephalitis (CE) virus, but also Northway virus.
(4) The postoncospheral development and cycle of Taenia polyacantha Leuckart, 1856, an holarctic species of cestode, were investigated in the laboratory as well as in the tundra of northern Alaska.
(5) There were found 26 parasitic and nonparasitic species of Gamasoidea, 3 species of Ixodidae and 2 species of Trombiculidae, 10 species of Aphaniptera, 3 species of Anoplura but there was found no species specific only for the tundra vole.
(6) Tundra peregrine eggs contain an average of 889 parts of DDE per million (lipid basis); taiga peregrine eggs contain 673 parts per million; Aleutian peregrine eggs contain 167 parts per million; rough-legged hawk eggs contain 22.5 parts per million; and gyrfalcon eggs contain 3.88 parts per million.
(7) Although the coastal natives' diet was higher in calories and fats than tundra inhabitants'; it was rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, the main source of which was sea-animal meat.
(8) "That's why increasing tundra wildfires have the potential to accelerate the melting in Greenland," Box said.
(9) Temperature rises in excess of this may trigger a "tipping point" in places such as the Arctic tundra where permafrost would melt rapidly, releasing large amounts of methane which has a global warming effect eight times greater than CO2.
(10) Tundra and taiga peregrines have fledged progressively fewer young each year since 1966.
(11) Packers 7-6 49ers, 5:50, 2nd quarter Rodgers on the move - he's running to his right, and fires a strike to Nelson who MAKES THE CATCH and falls to the not-so-frozen tundra (they have sub-turf heating)!
(12) More than 1,000bn tonnes of carbon are stored in the soils beneath the Arctic tundra, double humanity’s emissions since the industrial revolution.
(13) Structural and functional features of plants from cold regions such as high mountain and tundra environments are characterized.
(14) Even though it has a great sense of smell - it can sniff a dog 35ft away - and can jump two feet to catch a beetle, and that a Russian hedgehog once found its way back home after it had been dropped 48 miles away across the tundra, the hedgehog is not, on the whole, a very clever creature.
(15) and Greyjoy fight one another while otherworldly ice demons rise in the northern tundra, and the Westerosi equivalent of nuclear weapons – dragons – are reaching maturity on a distant continent.
(16) The species was found in the rhizosphere of Vaccinum uliginosum and Arctous alpina from the mountain tundra of Kamchatka.
(17) The high northern latitudes are warming more rapidly than other parts of the Earth, with climate models predicting a northward shift of Arctic vegetation that will see the boreal biome (coniferous forest across North America and Eurasia) migrate into what is currently tundra (treeless plains of the Arctic).
(18) On land, shrubs are spreading across the lower Arctic because of a longer growing season, but other tundra plant types – such as moss and lichen – are declining.
(19) The mass radioisotope (32P) labelling of all tundra voles excreting Zeptospira, infected urine was carried out over the area of 1 ha, and the results of the experiment analyzed by the method of planar coherent graphs, showed the irregular (spotted) distribution of "infected spots", i. e. soil patches contaminated by Zeptospira.
(20) Speaking to a handful of journalists at Sporting’s training field yesterday (including one pale, bearded specimen huddled into the corner of his office nearest the baseboard heater), Vermes recalled playing in a game in freezing rain at the Rutgers Bowl, before airily gesturing at the tundra beyond his window and saying, “this is nothing.” I expect him to wear one of those t-shirts with a shirt and tie printed on it for the final.