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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"junipers"”.
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Seed dispersal of western and Utah junipers: the role of scatter-hoarding rodents.
… to frugivores, both avian and mammalian. Junipers produce female cones with a husk enclosing the seeds that closely resemble fruit, thus they are often referred to as berries. These cones differ among juniper species with some species producing very fleshy, resinous cones such as those of …
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Dendrochronological Potential of Bermuda Cedar
… from a common ancestor of mainland and Caribbean junipers, the Bermuda cedar thrives in the limestone soil and breaks the salty Atlantic wind for less hardy flora. From the time of its establishment on the isolated archipelago until the 15th century, no mammals treaded beneath the Bermuda cedar …
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Habitat selection by the elegant trogon (Trogon elegans) at multiple scales.
… associated with variables describing sycamores, junipers, pines, and oaks, indicating that these trees were important to elegant trogon habitat use in Arizona. In Chapter 2, I discussed the behavior and phenology of nesting elegant trogons in the Chiricahua, Huachuca, and Santa Rita mountains in …
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Evaluating biomass water storage and sap flux in three semi-arid tree species in central Texas
… On an individual tree scale, we found junipers are neither transpiring at higher rates nor storing more wood water than either oak or pine. Current policies suggest removal of woody brush such as juniper, will lead to an increase in water yield. Our results show that this may only be …
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Composition of the woody plant understory of plateau live oak (Quercus virginiana var fusiformis) clusters in a central Texas savanna
… and that of other woody species suggesting that junipers were not competitively excluding other woody plants from these clusters. These results indicate that asymmetry in woody plant composition does exist around these live oak nurse plants though it is more subtle than the asymmetry documented …
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Archaeological seeds and local varieties of edible fruits: morphology through time
… grapes and other fruits, as plums, sloes, and junipers, which may have played a role in meat preservation. Other fruits and nuts found in the same contexts, such as watermelon, bottle gourd, hazelnuts, walnuts, pine nuts, almonds and olives were probably related to food trade. [CHAPTER 3] …
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Review of Chemical Properties of Cedrene
No abstract prepared.