Removal of all overstory trees and other interfering growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference

All overstory growth 5 feet and over in height is then girdled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946] Reference

The primary overstory species are red oak, white oak, and hickory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ozark Broadleaf Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey)] Reference

When Mature overstory overstory overstory understory understory understory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 18] Reference

Suitability for suitable as overstory overstory middle middle strata low middle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 18] Reference

The primary overstory species are southern red oak, black oak, white oak, and hickories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ouachita Mixed Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey)] Reference

Streams typically have higher primary productivity than streams with a forest canopy overstory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)] Reference

In this flatwood like habitat, pines dominate the overstory with a well-developed woody understory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Piney Woods forests] Reference

The overstory of the ridge terrace is usually dominated by larger, densely distributed loblolly pine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Virginia] Reference

I use the blind in areas with a dense overstory or areas where there are no suitable trees for climbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ground Blinds or tree stands] Reference

Flora: Upland vegetation includes dense concentrations of tall shrubs interspersed with red cedar as overstory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island] Reference

By removing overstory competitors, the beavers also make way for trees that have been waiting in the understory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

Old-growth stands up to 120 years are a true mixture of pines and broadleafs, in the overstory as well as the understory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

Historical descriptions report that these areas grew cypress, gum, hickory, oak, and cedar as their major overstory components.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mississippi lowland forests] Reference

(Theobroma cacao) and tea (Camellia sinensis) are plantation crops often grown with an overstory of nitrogen fixing shade trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Sand Plain Fynbos has the typical fynbos structure, with proteoids in the overstory and an understory of ericoids and restioids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lowland fynbos and renosterveld] Reference

Blue patches of fog, fine and pale as powder, moved through the overstory of chestnut limbs and oak limbs clutching bright autumn leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain]

Rapid disintegration of the mantle of leafmold is prevented by the partial shading, which the dead or dying overstory, girdled trees cast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946] Reference

The amount of overstory foliage can vary depending on the season, affecting the amount of light that the understory species will intercept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 18] Reference

When mast-bearing broadleafs reach the overstory, they begin to produce even more than when they were in the understory: a boon to mast eaters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

The size and shape of the overstory species crown and the type of foliage will affect the amount of light that penetrates down into the understory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 18] Reference

Some overstory removal provides enough light for white fir regeneration, but also provides enough shade to prevent the regeneration of other species.    From Wordnik.com.  [White fir] Reference

Since the mid 1960's pine stands have been harvested, and hardwoods stands have taken their place, outcompeting juvenile pines for dominance in the overstory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southeastern mixed forests] Reference

The native rain forest has a diverse angiosperm canopy 20 m to 30 m tall, with an emergent overstory of Norfolk Island pines (Arauacaria heterophylla) up to 60 m tall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norfolk Island subtropical forests] Reference

Pocosins have a dense, fire adapted, shrub layer and an open overstory of pond pine (Pinus serotina); the endangered canebrake rattlesnake occurs here (Terwilliger and Tate, 1994).    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference

As a result, black sagebrush is more prevalent in the shrub overstory of Ecoregion 13v, and the more mesic understory species that are found farther north and east are largely absent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA)] Reference

In the hybrid test plots, the seedlings were planted under forest growth and the overstory trees were girdled; the seedlings were randomized in these plots, with spacing of 10 by 10 feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference

The region is characterized by the natural overstory dominance of brigalow (Acacia harpophylla) in many lowland woodlands of the region, although other eucalypt woodlands are also present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brigalow tropical savanna] Reference

As the girdled overstory trees die, they gradually yield the site to the planted chestnuts in transition that does not greatly disturb the ecological conditions, particularly of the forest floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946] Reference

The shrub wetland/forested wetland is characterized by a sparsely forested overstory dominated by young and/or stressed loblolly pine, red cedar and the occasional American holly and black cherry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Virginia] Reference

Post oaks and blackjack oaks have adapted to life in sandy soils and they dominate the overstory, with scattered honey mesquite and grasses, such as little bluestem and threeawn, growing beneath them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference

In its heyday, the towering tree not only formed a critical part of the Eastern hardwood forest - researchers think it made up as much as a quarter of the woods 'overstory - but also provided inspiration to poets and novelists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The mighty American chestnut tree, poised for a comeback] Reference

Vegetation is mostly mid and tall grasses such as seacoast bluestem, switchgrass, gulfdune paspalum, fringeleaf paspalum, sandbur, purple threeawn, pricklypear, and catclaw with an overstory of southern live oak and honey mesquite trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference

The five fire regimes on the scale are classified based upon the average number of years between fires, combined with the severity of the fire on the dominant overstory vegetation.    From Wordnik.com.  [News Review - Top Stories] Reference

The shrub wetland / forested wetland is characterized by a sparsely forested overstory dominated by young and / or stressed loblolly pine, red cedar and the occasional American holly and black cherry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

In its heyday, the towering tree not only formed a critical part of the Eastern hardwood forest - researchers think it made up as much as a quarter of the woods' overstory - but also provided inspiration to poets and novelists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference

Rapid disintegration of the mantle of leaf mold is prevented by the partial shading which the dead or dying overstory, girdled trees cast. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947] Reference

He says: "As the girdled overstory trees die they gradually yield the site to the planted chestnuts in a transition that does not greatly disturb the ecological conditions, particularly of the forest floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947] Reference

15, 2006) - Fuel reduction treatments should simultaneously take place in the overstory, understory, and on the ground to adequately reduce fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fuel treatments reduce wildfire severity, tree mortality in Washington forests] Reference

Today's words Word don't know: cryo, whiffled, planetfall, affectless, murfle, deadswitch, regrown, thorned, thornbrake, downclimbing, golds, ghosty, incandescents, overstory, floodlamps, spiderweb.    From Wordnik.com.  [letters from the earth] Reference