forest floors
- plural of forest floor.
Example Sentences
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Unlike their cousins that nest mostly in the detritus of forest floors, these ants live most of their lives high in tree canopies.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
Buildup of fallen pine needles and branches on forest floors coupled with fir trees that have crowded into more historically spread-out, ponderosa pine forests mean fires travel faster.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2023
“We called them gray ghosts,” the now 77-year-old retired forester says of the American chestnut tree scattered throughout his former North Carolina home and still towering over the forest floors.
From National Geographic ● Apr. 28, 2023
While wildfires once regularly simmered along the forest floors, today’s megafires are burning at high severity and searing some trees up to the top.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
The trees generate most of the humus themselves, as their canopies interlace tightly in mature forests, permitting relatively little undergrowth to flourish on the forest floors beneath them.
From Area Handbook for Albania by Elpern, Sarah Jane
