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- noun A
longleaf pine , Pirus palustris, or the wood of this tree
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For forest species such as longleaf pine, higher CO2 levels improve water use efficiency, which may improve drought tolerance, by causing leaf pores or stomates to stay partially closed longer.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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For forest species such as longleaf pine, higher CO2 levels improve water use efficiency, which may improve drought tolerance, by causing leaf pores or stomates to stay partially closed longer.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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For forest species such as longleaf pine, higher CO2 levels improve water use efficiency, which may improve drought tolerance, by causing leaf pores or stomates to stay partially closed longer.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Ronnie's boss had sent him over to clear out some of the thick yaupon and gall berry bushes around the house to give our longleaf pines a fighting chance.
Tenderness Elizabeth Westmark 2011
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Since 2004, a partnership between NFWF and Southern Company, the Longleaf Legacy Program, has invested over $8.7 million into projects that will restore more than 82,000 acres of longleaf pine forest and the native species that rely on it.
Mike Smith: National Fish and Wildlife Earns Grant to Restore Long Leaf Pines Mike Smith 2011
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The longleaf pine ecosystem once encompassed more than 90 million acres of North America.
Mike Smith: National Fish and Wildlife Earns Grant to Restore Long Leaf Pines Mike Smith 2011
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Two of the additional objectives of the legacy program for longleaf pine are national defense and involvement of farmers and foresters.
Mike Smith: National Fish and Wildlife Earns Grant to Restore Long Leaf Pines Mike Smith 2011
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The last time, I left Remagen just days before the unit was scheduled to return home, to the longleaf pine forests of Fort Stewart, Georgia.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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The last time, I left Remagen just days before the unit was scheduled to return home, to the longleaf pine forests of Fort Stewart, Georgia.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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Upland vegetation cover is predominantly loblolly-shortleaf pine forests; it contrasts with longleaf-slash pine forests of the warmer Southern Coastal Plain (75) and the pine barrens of Ecoregion 84b.
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