deciduous forest

collocation in English

meaningsofdeciduousandforest

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deciduous
adjective
uk
/dɪˈsɪdʒ.u.əs/
us
/dɪˈsɪdʒ.u.əs/
A deciduous tree loses its leaves in autumn and grows new ones in ...
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forest
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈfɒr.ɪst/
us
/ˈfɔːr.ɪst/
a large area of land covered with trees and plants, usually larger than a wood, or the trees and ...
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During the remainder of the year, the shade cloth was removed to simulate opendeciduousforestcanopy.
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Individual transects were distributed in space within each site sampling across several uplands indeciduousforest, while in riparian forest transects were across different streams.
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The peninsula contains different types of tropical vegetation such as tropicaldeciduousforest, thorn scrub, mangroves, grassland, marshlands and dunes.
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Factors influencing sapling composition in canopy gaps of a temperatedeciduousforest.
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It contains some 7550 ha of tropical drydeciduousforestinterspersed with areas of secondary growth, grazed grasslands, riparian forest, seasonal swamps and marshes.
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The vegetation in our study area was tall broadleafdeciduousforestrich in limeloving species adjoining cleared areas used in agriculture.
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Two possible ecological interactions may explain the incidence of galling insects and folivores on the same host leaves of the tropical drydeciduousforest.
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Similarly, 73% of respondents in thedeciduousforestzone reported that they used the same crop varieties regardless of the production system managed.
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Males disproportionately performed only three activities, of which none was in the moistdeciduousforestzone.
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Seed dispersal by ants in adeciduousforestecosystem.
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Therefore, more availability of younger leaves, during a short period of time, occurs in thedeciduousforestthan in the riparian evergreen forest in the wet season.
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