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forest | American Dictionary

forest
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈfɔr·əst, ˈfɑr-/
a large area full of trees, usually wild:
[ U ]We camped out in a clearing in the forest.

Examples of forest

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An important example is the extraction (appropriation) of resource units from a renewable resource stock such as fish, rangelands, groundwater aquifers, or forests.
Smaller trees can fruit in logged dipterocarp forests.
Thus, the species ensemble was not completely sampled in any of the forests.
In two of these upland forests, mortality was restricted to particular understorey species.
Few natural forests are structurally as simple as the one sampled for this study.
In the floodplain forests the inundation phase is followed by a short dry season, when the rainfalls start late.
Four dipterocarp species were included because of their importance to the ecology of these forests.
What evidence suggests that tropical forests have received low 'propagule pressure'?
As previously mentioned, there are many examples of exotic species found in disturbed tropical forests, and a dearth of such examples from undisturbed tropical forests.
Most exotic plants are not shadetolerant, however, and depend on human disturbance to invade tropical forests successfully.
Gaps a caused by the mortality of big trees, and the local establishment of pioneer species, result in a more complex architecture to the forests.
Logged forests have large gaps in the canopy and fewer big trees.
In particular, we have examined impacts at the landscape- and stand-scales for rain forests with contrasting management histories.
All of the above observations were made in relatively mesic tropical forests.
The results are discussed in terms of the occurrence of the species in the mosaic climaxes of afromontane forests.
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Collocations withforest

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adjacent forest
A situation is studied where villagers can participate voluntarily in village organization for managing an adjacentforest.
ancient forest
Yes, logging an ancientforest may make likely an otherwise unlikely pathogen-vector match, but it may simultaneously make a much more likely match impossible.
bamboo forest
Timber forest: it comprises timber-producing forest and forest trees as well as bamboo forest producing bamboo products.
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