boschi relittuali
English translation: relict forests
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| 17:59 Mar 15, 2011 |
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|  Selected response from: K Donnelly United States Local time: 02:16 | ||||||
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| 4 +2 | relict forests |
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| 4 | vestigial stands |
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| 3 | relict woods/forest |
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| 2 | relictual woods |
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relictual woods Explanation: - -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 10 min (2011-03-15 18:09:28 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- accelerated erosion, sedimentation of streams, etc.). Overall, with unstable soils and relictual forests with unique flora and fauna, the ... www.legacy-tlc.org/reports/ARD/ARD.pdf - |
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vestigial stands Explanation: Relitto means relic - in other words, it used to be much bigger, but there are only bits of it left. A stand is an area of trees. You could also say woods, but I don't think you can describe a wood as being part of a forest. Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://www.seriemanaturetours.com/region_argentina_sub_05.ht... Reference: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/stand |
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22 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2relict forests Explanation: relict community A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | MICHAEL ALLABY | © A Dictionary of Ecology 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. (Hide copyright information) Copyright relict community A community that formerly had a much wider distribution but now occurs only very locally. Such contraction can be caused by various factors including climatic change (e.g. glaciation). Communities widespread during glacial times may now be restricted to mountain tops (e.g. Upper Teesdale (England) contains an isolated flora characteristic of much of lowland Britain during glacial periods). http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/relict_community.aspx These relict forests are critically important for maintaining ongoing ecological processes necessary for the survival of Madagascar’s unique biodiversity, which reflects the island’s geological history. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1257 We find that PiFl is recruiting abundantly and unexpectedly at low to high elevations in the White Mtns in diverse habitats, including cool ravines at low elevations, into sagebrush meadows at mid-elevations, and extending above upper treeline in areas of relict bristlecone pine forests. http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/millar/posters/millar_... Leaf gas exchange of understory spruce-fir saplings in relict cloud forests, southern Appalachian Mountains, USA. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17938120 |
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