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- noun Plural form of
graminoid .
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Examples
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In arctic Alaska, for example, a trend toward reduced abundance of graminoids and deciduous shrubs during the 1980s was reversed in the 1990s [71].
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In unproductive snowbeds, which are favored winter habitats of the lemming Lemmus lemmus, between 90 and 100% of the moss and graminoids present during winter may have been removed.
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This, in combination with the staging of snow geese in La Pérouse Bay, Manitoba, because of bad weather further north, leads to increasing foraging for roots and rhizomes of the graminoids Puccinellia phryganodes and Carex subspathacea [108].
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In unproductive snow beds, which are favored winter habitats of the Norway lemming [101], up to 90 – 100% of the mosses and graminoids present during the winter may be removed [102].
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Inhibition of growth, and effects on nutrient uptake on Arctic graminoids by leaf extracts – allelopathy or resource competition between plants and microbes?
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The diet of Lemmus consists mainly of mosses and graminoids, while Dicrostonyx prefers herbs and dwarf shrubs [99].
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Phosphate absorption: adaptation of tundra graminoids to a low temperature, low phosphorus environment.
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Turf graminoids dominate these formations, primarily species in the genus Stipa.
Kazakh steppe 2008
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Moist depressions within these dunes are dominated by Baeckia frutescens (Myrtaceae), Melaleuca leucadendron, and diverse graminoids.
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These forests vary according to the number of epiphytes and whether or not there are bamboos and graminoids in the herbaceous strata.
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