mes·o·phyte

(mĕz′ə-fīt′, mĕs′-)

A land plant that grows in an environment having a moderate amount of moisture.

mes′o·phyt′ic (-fĭt′ĭk) adj.

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Adj.

mesophytic - being or growing in or adapted to a moderately moist environment; "mesophytic habitats"; "mesophytic plants"

mesic - having or characterized by moderate or a well-balanced supply of moisture; "mesic habitats"

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Occurrence of moths among habitats in a mixed mesophytic forest: implications for management of forest bats.

A Comparison of Bat Activity in a Managed Central Hardwood Forest

Gap-phase regeneration in a semideciduous mesophytic forest, south-eastern Brazil.

Trema micrantha (L.) Blume. IN PLANTATIONS FOR ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION: EARLY DEVELOPMENT IN THE BRAZILIAN SUBTROPICAL FOREST/Trema micrantha (L.) Blume. EM PLANTACOES PARA RESTAURACAO ECOLOGICA: DESENVOLVIMENTO INICIAL NA FLORESTA SUBTROPICAL BRASILEIRA

These circumstances would not have excluded the occurrence of other, possibly more mesophytic graminoid-dominated communities or the scattered occurrences of species such as C.

Summer Climatic Moisture Balances for Yukon Xerophytic Grassland Slopes and Their Late-Wisconsinan Counterparts: Are Present-Day Grasslands Beringian Relicts?

Indeed, Areas of Permanent Preservation (riparian forests) and Legal Reservations (fragments of mesophytic forests) serve as ecological passageways and are used by forest species because most of the area around MT-358 is composed of grain crops, and small areas of sensu stricto cerrado, with low, sparse vegetation.

Effects of roads on the vertebrates diversity of the Indigenous Territory Paresi and its surrounding/Efeitos das rodovias MT 235 e 358 sob a diversidade de vertebrados no sudoeste de Mato Grosso

This plant occurs widely throughout the tropical regions of the world, and the most common species in this family (Cochlospermaceae) are either mesophytic or xerophytic, growing primarily in drier climates.

Antidiabetic and Antidyslipidemic Activities of the Aqueous Extract of Cochlospermum planchonii Leaves in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats

Computed tomography (CT) scan showed a left renal 5.3 x 4.7 x 4.5 cm mesophytic interpolar well-circumscribed mass.

Response of renal cell carcinoma to ibrutinib, a bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor, in a patient treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Effects of temperature on spore germination in some fern species from semideciduous mesophytic forest.

Germinacion y frecuencia de esporofitos de dos especies simpatricas de Blechnum (Blechnaceae)

tarsata in a eucalyptus plantation and a mesophytic forest area.

Habito de nidificacion de Centris (Hemisiella) dichrootricha (Hymenoptera: Apidae) en el Cerrado Norte de Brasil

While blue gum does not economize in the use of water, it has deep and extensive root systems and can extract water from the soil at higher soil moisture tensions than most mesophytic (terrestrial plants that are not adapted to very wet or very dry conditions) plants (Florence 1996; Pryor 1976).

Management of blue gum eucalyptus in California requires region-specific consideration

This evergreen forest (mesophytic) has a canopy layer with 24 species of trees (average samples), it is from 12 to 25 m high and its covert is dense (90-100%).

Forest typology of broadleaf forests from Sierra Maestra, Eastern Cuba/Tipologia forestal de los bosques latifolios de la Sierra Maestra, Cuba Oriental

Analysis of virgin mixed mesophytic forests in Savage Gulf, Tennessee.

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