vegetation

Example Sentences

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A nonprofit proposes to eliminate Catalina Island’s deer population using contracted hunters, saying the nonnative animals heighten wildfire risk by eating native vegetation.

From Los Angeles Times

Roger del Moral, another ecologist, remembered a hike he took only four months after the eruption: “… far from any visible vegetation, I discovered an isolated, yet active ant nest.”

From Literature

The fire agencies take measurements of vegetation moisture in the field and forward the results to the weather service every two to four weeks.

From Los Angeles Times

Their goal was to reconstruct what kinds of vegetation existed there in the past.

From Science Daily

"We researched the vegetation. We looked for what kinds of trees grow along the Mediterranean coast, what kinds of rock," so viewers will be convinced by the visual effects, he said.

From Barron's