Mesic

Word MESIC
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Definitions and meanings of "Mesic"

What do we mean by mesic?

Of, characterized by, or adapted to a moderately moist habitat. adjective

Moist. adjective

Adapted to a moist habitat. adjective

Of or pertaining to mesons; mesonic. adjective

Of or pertaining to a meson adjective

Having or characterized by moderate or a well-balanced supply of moisture adjective

(of a habitat) Moist.

(of an organism) Adapted to a moist habitat.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Mesic

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The word "mesic" in example sentences

One even finds small remnants of boreal pine forests, old growth forest, and mesic forest tucked away in Durango's high sierra region. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mexican mesic forest survives as one of the world's rarest and most endangered vegetation types. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cryic soils support mixed coniferous forests dominated by mountain hemlock, lodgepole pine, and Pacific silver fir; they are colder than the mesic and frigid soils of the Southern Cascades (4f). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Characteristic of islands, the flora is impoverished relative to continental areas, with greatest diversity in mesic and rain forest communities. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Feral goats have had an impact on dry and mesic park environments which extend from sea-level to the alpine zone by destroying shrubs and preventing regeneration of many native plant species. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fire cycles range from periodic (5-15 years) surface fires in dry and warm ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir types, to infrequent (more than 100 yrs and up to 900+ yrs) stand-replacement crown fires (greater than 1,00 square kilometers [km2]) in mesic and cool western redcedar (Thuja plicata), western hemlock, and cedar/spruce forest types. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The soil temperature regimes are mesic and thermic inland, mesic on the rolling hills between the Santa Rosa plain and the Pacific Ocean, and isomesic along the coast. ❋ Unknown (2009)

•Kuchler potential natural vegetation is northern cordgrass prairie; it is distinct from the northeastern oak-pine forest of xeric, fire-prone uplands in the Outer Coastal Plain of Ecoregion 84b, and the Appalachian oak forest of mesic uplands in the Inner Coastal Plain (84d). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Alfisols, Entisols, Inceptisols, Mollisols, Ultisols and Vertisols in combination with isomesic, mesic or thermic soil temperature regimes and xeric, udic, ustic or aquic soil moisture regimes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Vegetation community types in the ravines and gorges include mixed oak and chestnut oak on the upper slopes, more mesic forests on the middle and lower slopes (beech-tulip poplar, sugar maple-basswood-ash-buckeye), with hemlock along rocky streamsides and river birch along floodplain terraces. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Soils have frigid or cryic temperature regimes, in contrast to the mesic temperature regime of soils in Ecoregion 4a. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The park represents native subtropical rain forest and mesic forest communities, providing an excellent example of succession following dynamic volcanic activity, as well as habitats for several threatened and endemic species. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is distinct from the Appalachian oak forest that dominated the mesic uplands of Ecoregion 84d, and the northern cordgrass prairie that occurs along tidal channels in Ecoregion 84c. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Within these grasslands there are mesic habitats called "hammocks" that rise above the surrounding, usually wetter areas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

•Mixed oak forests and beech-oak forests are native to the mesic uplands of the Inner Coastal Plain (84d); sugar maple and red oak trees are rare or absent in these forests, but are common in the mesic upland forests of Ecoregions 58, 64, and 67. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The soil temperature regimes are mostly thermic, mesic at higher elevation, and some isomesic near the coast. ❋ Unknown (2009)

•Most soils are dominated by quartz sand, and are acidic, xeric, and have a very limited nutrient supply; they are coarser, drier, less fertile, and less suited to agriculture than the mesic soils of Ecoregion 84d. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Feral pigs affect mostly mesic and wet environments by damaging native vegetation, disturbing soil, and dispersing alien plant seeds. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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