Love them orhate them, mice are quite common in nature. In fact, there are over 1,100 species worldwide. Of those, 200 call North America home. Many of these have adapted to living among humans and may even be nesting somewhere in your home. Don’t worry, these critters are far less...
Stevens is also credited with chartering the first railroad in North America when the New Jersey Railroad Company was founded in 1815 (although not actually built until 1832), a future component of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The colonel's recognition did not end there; he also tested the ...
[1] Evapotranspiration is an important term of energy and water budgets in urban areas and is responsible for multiple ecosystem services provided by urban vegetation. The spatial heterogeneity of urban surface types with different seasonal water use patterns (e.g., trees and turfgrass lawns) compli...
Nonetheless, trees are unbiased estimators (Dietterich, 2000) and hence, on average, produce correct predictions. Because decisions taken at one node of the tree cannot change the decisions taken at previous nodes, the combined results of the optimal decisions at each node may not result in the...
The timing of this response is important in trees for growth and survival. Woody plants, such as dogwood (Cornus sericea L.) have evolved different ecotypes that are closely adapted to local climatic conditions, which are differentiated by irradiance, photoperiod and/or temperature. While short ...
These turtles aren’t brilliant swimmers, but can climb bushes, trees, and rocks. They use their large beaks to help when climbing. Big-headed turtles have unusually large heads with strong beaks and are unable to retract their heads into their shells. They resemble a small Snapping turtle ...
relief. Thus, for example, theAndesconstitutea mountain belt that borders the entire westcoastof South America; within it are both individual ranges, such as theCordillera Blancain which liesPeru’shighest peak, Huascarán, and the high plateau, the Altiplano, in southern Peru and western ...
Marsh, type of wetland ecosystem characterized by poorly drained mineral soils and by plant life dominated by grasses. The latter characteristic distinguishes a marsh from a swamp, whose plant life is dominated by trees. Learn about freshwater and salt m
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Summertime heat and humidity also help to fuel another sometimes-deadly weather phenomenon across the region -- thunderstorms. Though lightning and tornadoes may come to mind first, it's often the winds that are deadly with these storms, bringing down trees, ...