Vegetation in arid climate regions can include sparse grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands.

This is a bird of open but shady mature woodlands, such as beech and sessile oak, with some sparse ground cover for nesting.

The town is surrounded by sparse countryside and there are several woodlands in or in close proximity to the town, for example, Bird's Marsh, Vincients Wood and Briars Wood.

It commonly occurs in association with Quercus douglasii, and " Oak / Foothill Pine vegetation " ( also known as " Oak / Gray Pine vegetation ") is used as a description of a type of habitat characteristic within the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion in California, providing a sparse overstory above a canopy of the oak woodland.

Typical habitat is along trails and roadsides, embankments, hillsides, stone-and gravel-laid paths and roads, meadows, young woodlands, sparse forest, woodland edges, and clearings.

Infants born with phocomelia will normally have a petite head with “ sparse hair ” that may appear “ silvery-blonde .” Hemangioma, the abnormal buildup of blood vessels, will possibly develop around the facial area at birth and the eyes may be set widely apart, a condition known as orbital hypertelorism.

A few snowshoe hares were noted in adjacent virgin forest plots ; they represented widely scattered, sparse populations.

This gradual erosion of the originally sparse texture, reflected in the hyphenated title ( meaning " Against Points "), complements three parallel processes already present in the first version: ( 1 ) the heterogeneous timbres of the full ensemble are gradually reduced to the " monochrome " of the solo piano ; ( 2 ) widely fluctuating durations reduce to similar values ; ( 3 ) wide-ranging dynamics reduce to a generally soft level.

This idea ( Barker, 1992 ) is now widely ( if not universally ) accepted and is a source of concern for societies undergoing a transition from sparse to better nutrition ( Robinson, 2001 ).

In addition to the movie's famous theme music, there are also a number of sparse, brooding passages of music scattered throughout, including several played on a synthesizer.

Others claim that counties with a scattered and sparse population situated far away from the central administration should have a stronger representation in the Parliament.

The lake is deep and nutrient poor ; there is very little vegetation except for sparse shrubs, some dense patches of growth and scattered Ziziphus trees.

It is native to the cool and warm waters of the Old World in Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia, with a sparse, scattered distribution ; in Europe, it is reported from Ireland, Great Britain, Germany, and the Baltic States, and in Australia from Northern Territory, Queensland, and New South Wales.

These factors limited surpluses and kept populations sparse and scattered.

Beyond Neptune, the Solar System continues into the Kuiper belt, the scattered disc, and the Oort cloud, three sparse populations of small icy bodies thought to be the points of origin for most observed comets.

Since then, the sparse group has scattered over a region about 30 by 18 light-years, whose center is currently some 80 light-years away, making it the closest cluster-like object to Earth.

From earliest times the area had a sparse and scattered population eking out a living from the common and wood and farmlands owned by the church including Burscough Priory, Cockersand Abbey and the Knights Hospitallers until the Dissolution of the Monasteries from 1536 and that of the local gentry included Sir Adam Banastre, Lord of the Manor in 1288 and the Standish, Catterall, Stanley, Rigby, Hulton, Dicconson and Hesketh families-the last being the last Lord of the Manor in 1798.

Cultivation is sparse in the northern mountains, the southern deserts, and the western plateaus, but the Indus River basin in Punjab and northern Sindh has fertile soil that enables Pakistan to feed its population under usual climatic conditions.

Bur oak and quaking aspen, though native to North Dakota, are sparse in western North Dakota, with Dunn County being a notable exception.

This population and a few other settlements in the area constituted the sparse concentration of white settlers to be found in the isolated western wilderness.

The plant is found in southern and western Europe, often growing on shady walls or in damp rock crevices that are sparse in other plant growth ( thus, " wall " pennywort ), where its succulent leaves develop in rosettes.

The center of the island is mountainous, and the western end is barren and vegetation is sparse.

Although most of the mountainous western region is forested, most of the remaining areas of the parish are populated with smaller species of herbaceous bushes, trees and pasturelands, until the Ponta de São Lourenço where vegetation is limited to sparse low-lying grasses.

The western part of the island is more forested while the eastern two-thirds is more sparse in trees.

70 mph ( 110 km / h ) gusts were reported as far east as Boyeros Airport in the capital of Havana, along with a lowest recorded pressure of 979 mbar ( hPa ); however, no information on wind speeds in far western Cuba was available due to the relatively small size of the storm and the sparse population of the region.

A sparse human population in the western reaches of the Galapagos Islands means that volcanic activity is not always observed or reported as soon as it starts.

However, due to sparse population in western Kansas, schools in the same league are often separated by distances of more than 100 miles, and in a few cases, schools are almost 200 miles apart.

Firm details of specific rites are sparse, as members were sworn under the penalty of death not to reveal anything about the Mysteries to non-initiates.

Universities that offer dental education in the UK are sparse, with just seven colleges.

Information can be found in the Britannica by following the cross-references in the Micropædia and Macropædia ; however, these are sparse, averaging one cross-reference per page.

At high latitudes, north of the main zone of boreal forest or taiga, growing conditions are not adequate to maintain a continuous closed forest cover, so tree cover is both sparse and discontinuous.

Conversely, if the data are sparse — that is, if only K out of N Fourier coefficients are nonzero — then the complexity can be reduced to O ( K log N log ( N / K )), and this has been demonstrated to lead to practical speedups compared to an ordinary FFT for N / K > 32 in a large-N example ( N = 2 < sup > 22 </ sup >) using a probabilistic approximate algorithm ( which estimates the largest K coefficients to several decimal places ).

List structures are often preferred for sparse graphs as they have smaller memory requirements.

Public transport services in Northern Ireland are sparse in comparison with those of the rest of Ireland or Great Britain.

Its sparse bunch grass, prostrate vines and low-growing shrubs are primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat for seabirds, shorebirds, and marine wildlife.

Most everyday files are relatively ' sparse ' in an information entropy sense, and thus, most lossless algorithms a layperson is likely to apply on regular files compress them relatively well.

Arrays: are created dynamically, stored as B-trees, are sparse ( i. e. use almost no space for missing nodes ), can use any number of subscripts, and subscripts can be strings or numeric ( including floating point ).

In all cases, palatable tall grasses such as orchard grass are sparse or non-existent.

The body cilia are fused to form polykinetids called cirri in some, and are sparse to absent in others.

Forms with sparse or absent body cilia tend to be smaller and are mostly marine, but a few are common in freshwater.

The other type is the lichen woodland or sparse taiga, with trees that are farther-spaced and lichen ground cover ; the latter is common in the northernmost taiga.

In the northernmost taiga the forest cover is not only more sparse, but often stunted in growth form ; moreover, ice pruned asymmetric Black Spruce ( in North America ) are often seen, with diminished foliage on the windward side.

These electrodes are referred to as grids as they are not solid electrodes but sparse elements through which electrons can pass on their way to the plate.

Historical sources for the 7th century are relatively sparse.

While the fibrous components are sparse, making the lamina propria structure loose, the hyaluronic acid ( HA ) content is high.

Turing has shown that almost all numbers are non-computable, which means that there is no possible algorithm, so the set of points on a trajectory is sparse.

Although historical records of sea otter in the San Juan Islands are sparse, there is a sea otter specimen collected in 1897 in the " Strait of Fuca " in the National Museum of Natural History.