overstory
the uppermost layer of foliage in a forest, forming the canopy.
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How to use overstory in a sentence
Powers’s previous novel, The overstory, won a Pulitzer Prize, and now Bewilderment has been longlisted for the National Book Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
On many parts of tribal land, most of the trees in the overstory survived.
Prescribed burns can keep wildfires in check. So why are politicians standing in the way? | Madeline Ostrander/Undark | October 27, 2021 | Popular-ScienceComparisons to The overstory are inevitable, both because that book was enormously successful and influential, and because it was also a call to action for the health of our planet.
Richard Powers’s New Book Tries to Get Us to Care About the Climate Crisis | lwhelan | October 5, 2021 | Outside OnlineRichard Powers’ 2018 novel The overstory, which won that year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, followed decades of the MacArthur Fellow’s work investigating the intersections of culture, the environment, science and technology.
Richard Powers on His Latest Book, Bewilderment—And Why Children Are the Ones to Call Out Climate Change Evasion | Elijah Wolfson | September 23, 2021 | TimeThe dominant and codominant plants in the overstory (trees or shrubs) were noted at each station.
One shows associations of dominant overstory and understory plants.
Artemisia tridentata and Artemisia nova form the overstory in unit F and part of G.
The trapping areas in the first three mentioned had heavy growths of grass and an overstory of shrubs.
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