Collocations withvegetation
These are words often used in combination withvegetation.
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aquatic vegetation
In sites where visibility was too poor for observation of tadpoles, such as areas with submerged aquatic vegetation, microhabitats were sampled with a small dipnet.
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dead vegetation
The plants covered about 33 per cent, of the ground, there were 18 to the square metre and the weight of one square metre of dead vegetation was 765 gms.
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decaying vegetation
The tottering gravestones, overgrown with repulsively decaying vegetation, cast curious shadows over the fungus-strewn grass.
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dense vegetation
Most parts of the alluvial plain are cultivated and covered by dense vegetation.
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diverse vegetation
Overall arthropod diversity was higher among the four tree species than on any single species, indicating that more diverse vegetation supports more diverse arthropod communities.
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dominant vegetation
The dominant vegetation type is tall evergreen lowland rainforest.
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emergent vegetation
The males call from emergent vegetation with a high-pitched, short, pebble-like call which is repeated at an increasing rate.
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floating vegetation
Large and heavily infected snails are more frequently observed on the floating vegetation in the stream.
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green vegetation
Summer diets are high in green vegetation and insects, which are also important sources of moisture.
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heavy vegetation
This leads to forests that grow with heavy vegetation.
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herbaceous vegetation
Pastoral mobility is also a key strategy to protect the environment as herbaceous vegetation recovers to a marked degree following rainfall and protection from herbivory.
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lush vegetation
Here peat development is associated with lush vegetation.
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marsh vegetation
The effect of that has been to bring down the vegetation of that neighbourhood to a mere marsh vegetation within the lifetime of a single generation.
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natural vegetation
There are of course substitutes for natural vegetation as a factor of production.
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riparian vegetation
Streams bordered by remnant vegetation (riparian vegetation) cross pastures and agricultural lands.
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rotting vegetation
There are also vast areas of rotting vegetation.
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submerged vegetation
Submerged vegetation, especially eelgrass, is a preferred substrate for oviposition.
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surrounding vegetation
Furthermore, most of these species are anemochorous and may be re-introduced by dispersal from surrounding vegetation.
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terrestrial vegetation
The terrestrial vegetation depends on the rains and possibly the ground water.
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tropical vegetation
They were, nevertheless, clearly an important part of this tropical vegetation.
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variety of vegetation
There was no clear association of entomopathogenic nematodes with habitat type; both genera were recovered from a variety of vegetation types, both cultivated and uncultivated.
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vegetation cover
At this time vegetation cover and species composition was recorded in detail.
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vegetation management
This can be due to a number of biological and environmental factors, such as: seed production, seed longevity, predation, soil conditions and vegetation management.
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