* The superhero / trickster figure of Uncle Sam in Robert Coover's The Public Burning ( 1977, New York, Grove Books ) is described in the following terms ( p. 7 ): " American Autolycus, they called him in the Gospels, referring to his cunning powers of conjuration, transmutation, and magical consumption ( he can play the shell game, not with a mere pea, but with whole tin mines, forests, oil fields, mountain ranges, and just before Thanksgiving this past year made an entire island disappear!

In the rain shadow, the forests disappear and the vegetation becomes open oak woodland, then transitions into the more familiar fire-tolerant California chaparral scrub.

Since the Pygmies rely on the forest for their physical as well as cultural survival, as these forests disappear, so do the Pygmy.

Villages and settlements lying next to the massive forests, should disappear from the face of the earth ".

When one reaches the drier rain shadow east of the mountains, the forests disappear, transitioning to the grassland ecoregions of Patagonia.

However, if people continue to use and abuse forests unregulated they will disappear and with them the Eld's deer and many other species.

How many of these plants still survive is unknown, but as the remaining primary forests of Borneo and Sumatra disappear, it can be assumed that their numbers are dwindling.

During the 17th century, the forests began to disappear ; at that time, Gothenburg had a great need for wood.

One superstition is that every so often, men would disappear into the forests of the mountain.

Some plants and animals thought to be extinct on surrounding islands can still be found in Dominica's forests.

It was probably used to convert closed forests into more open ecosystems favourable to game animals.

Either way, the trend is toward the modern Australian environment of highly flammable open sclerophyllous forests, woodlands and grasslands, none of which are suitable for large, slow-moving browsing animals — and either way, the changed microclimate produces substantially less rainfall.

Although forests are classified primarily by trees, the concept of a forest ecosystem includes additional species ( such as smaller plants, fungi, bacteria, and animals ) as well as physical and chemical processes such as energy flow and nutrient cycling.

The closest relatives of the archipelago's plants and animals are found in the Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregions of southern South America, including the Valdivian temperate rain forests, Magellanic subpolar forests, and Desventuradas Islands.

Expanding commercial exploitation of forests, plans for additional hydroelectric facilities, foreign demands for wild animals and nonwood forest products for food and traditional medicines, and a growing population have brought new and increasing attention to the forests.

* Biotic – Biotic resources are obtained from the biosphere ( living and organic material ), such as forests, animals, birds, and fish and the materials that can be obtained from them.

As forests spread over the land, forest animals were hunted with bows and arrows.

For instance, his late essay, " The Succession of Forest Trees ," shows that he used experimentation and analysis to explain how forests regenerate after fire or human destruction, through dispersal by seed-bearing winds or animals.

Other animals living in forests have acquired some or all of these properties through convergent evolution, including members of the mongoose, civet, cat, and bear families.

Thus, rather than being a pest, mistletoe can have a positive effect on biodiversity, providing high quality food and habitat for a broad range of animals in forests and woodlands worldwide.

Gilgamesh delivers a lamentation for Enkidu, in which he calls upon mountains, forests, fields, rivers, wild animals, and all of Uruk to mourn for his friend.

The sea was known to the Novgorod people since at least the 11th century and was rapidly explored because of its commercial significance for navigation and coastal forests rich in fur animals.

Q ' uq ' umatz soon realized that their first attempt at the creation of beings was a failure as they could not give them praise and so they condemned the animals to live in the forests and ravines.

With the help of the moon goddess Arasy, Tupa descended upon the Earth in a location specified as a hill in the region of Aregúa, Paraguay, and from that location created all that is found upon the face of the earth, including the ocean, forests, and the animals.

In Hinduism, Aranyani is a goddess of the forests and the animals that dwell within them.

The park protects a wide range of biomes, including semi-arid woodland, subalpine heath, and eucalypt forests, and provides a habitat for a range of animals, including bats, birds, wallabies, quolls, and the unique red triangle slug ( Triboniophorus graeffei ), which is known to appear after rainfall.

The plateau has a more temperate, local climate than the surrounding plains, supporting open forests, heath, ferns, and a variety of plants and animals, several of which are not found anywhere else.

The park ’ s forests and montane heath provide habitat for many animals, including the Eastern Bristlebird, Coxen's Fig-Parrot, Black-breasted Buttonquail, all of which are threatened by extinction.

Diets often consisted of homegrown vegetables and animals that could be caught in the area ( at that time there were many dense forests, so deer meat was not an abundant food source ).

The municipality also has substantial forests with animals such as elk, deer, fox, bear and lynx.

As forests get destroyed, so does the habitat for millions of animals.

Bombax or silk-cotton trees attain gigantic proportions in the forests, which are the home of the India rubber-producing plants and of many valuable kinds of timber trees, such as odum ( Chlorophora excelsa ), ebony, mahogany ( Khaya senegalensis ), Oldfieldia ( Oldfieldia africana ) and camwood ( Baphia nitida ).

The climbing plants in the tropical forests are exceedingly luxuriant and the undergrowth or " bush " is extremely dense.

It is usually solitary, living in lowland forests and wetlands, browsing on plants and understory.

The manifestations of the earth element are found in plants, trees, mountains, forests, caves and gardens.

Since large vertebrate terrestrial herbivores had not yet appeared, free-sporing vascular plants began to spread across dry land, forming extensive forests which covered the continents.

The forests are rich in mushrooms and berries, as well as a variety of plants.

Most of the niche occupied by sub plants on land is actually occupied by macroscopic algae in the ocean, such as Sargassum and kelp, which are commonly known as seaweeds that creates kelp forests.

Great forests of primitive plants covered the continents, many of which formed the coal beds of Europe and eastern North America.

The rain forests also offer prime habitat for more than 500 species of birds, including the Philippine eagle ( or monkey-eating eagle ), some 800 species of orchids, and some 8, 500 species of flowering plants.

Puerto Rican dry forests are dominated by plants in the families Rubiaceae, Euphorbiaceae, and Myrtaceae.

This can be seen by the success of seed plants ( both gymnosperms and angiosperms ) in dominating biological niches on land, from forests to grasslands both in hot and cold climates.

Most occur in heathlands or low woodlands ; of the eastern species, B. integrifolia and B. marginata occur in forests ; many south-western species such as B. grandis, B. sphaerocarpa, B. sessilis, B. nobilis and B. dallanneyi grow as understorey plants in Jarrah ( Eucalyptus marginata ), Wandoo ( E. wandoo ) and Karri ( E. diversicolor ) forests, with B. seminuda being one of the forest trees in suitable habitat.

rural forests and to protect communities and the environment from wildland fires, insects, disease, and invasive plants.

The plants thrive best in hot, damp and humid locations, such as the clearings of forests ; but the leaves most preferred are obtained in drier areas, on the hillsides.

Blueberry plants are commonly found in oak-heath forests in eastern North America.

Accordingly, these plants can be found in the Andean highlands, from northern Chile to Colombia, in the Sechura Desert of coastal Peru, in the cloud forests of Central and South America, in southern United States from southern Virginia to Florida to Texas, and in far southern Arizona.

In comparison with lower tropical moist forests, cloud forests show a reduced tree stature combined with increased stem density and generally the lower diversity of woody plants.

The pygmy hippo is herbivorous, feeding on ferns, broad-leaved plants, grasses and fruits it finds in the forests.