Understory in a sentence

In a mature stage, the shady understory of the forest keeps things moist, and much of the debris consists of larger logs that are not easily ignited, so the “dead stuff” is less likely to serve as fuel for a fire.

I thought it was super fun to read about that and get inspired, because that is the understory.

It’s recommended that you wear pants as devils club is a spiny prickly plant that makes up the understory in these forests.

Solar-powered sensors, placed about one per hectare throughout the forest’s understory, detect wildfires in their early smouldering phase by ‘smelling’ tell-tale gases like hydrogen and carbon monoxide in microscopic quantities.

The little plants of the understory wilted.

In nature it is commonly a shade-tolerant understory tree, but it also thrives in full.

In these forests, light is structured on a vertical gradient, powerful at the canopy and increasingly weaker as it filters down to the darkest parts of the understory.

The Barred Owls preferred habitat is a mature forest with a clean understory to be able to hunt without dodging brush.

Ground-level flowers, like this purple coneflower, share space with Autumn Morn, an understory tree.

Mechanical treatments would include pruning ladder fuels, mastication, chipping and thinning to remove smaller diameter trees with the goal of protecting larger or older trees by removing understory and ladder fuels.

His company, Understory, designed sensors to prevent unnecessary repairs after severe hailstorms, something common in the US midwest.

The Spheres will be opened to Amazon employees starting Tuesday, January 30, while the public can have a fully immersive 360-degree experience of the science, engineering, and plants behind the project by going to the visitor center called The Understory.

Cacao trees are small, understory trees that need rich, well-drained soils.

Clearing open areas within forests to some extent may actually benefit deer populations by exposing the understory and allowing the types of grasses, weeds, and herbs to grow that deer like to eat.

Forest floors have a diverse set of understory shrubs and fungi.

In well-developed stands the larger trees exceed convert in height, there is a fairly continuous canopy at convert, and the shaded understory is moderately dense.

Many seedlings that will grow to the canopy level are present in the understory.

Only about 5% of the sunlight shining on the rainforest canopy reaches the understory.

Pawpaws are native to 26 states of the U.S. and to Ontario in Canada. citation citation The common pawpaw is a patch-forming (clonal) understory tree found in well-drained, deep, fertile bottomland and hilly upland habitat.

Red wolves re-introduced into northeastern North Carolina have utilized habitat types ranging from agricultural lands to forest/wetland mosaics characterized by an over story of pine and an understory of evergreen shrubs.