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pouca cobertura arbórea.

English translation: small canopies.

19:59 Feb 24, 2010
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Botany
Portuguese term or phrase: pouca cobertura arbórea.
contexto: plantas de porte herbáceo e pouca cobertura arbórea.
Andre Damasceno
Brazil
Local time: 11:39
English translation:small canopies.
Explanation:
canopy: In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant community or crop, formed by plant crowns.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_(biology)
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Lumen (X)
Brazil
Local time: 11:39
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +4small canopies.
Lumen (X)
4 +3little tree coverage
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
4 +2little arboreal coverage
Marlene Curtis
4 +1low tree cover
Enza Longo
3leafy and full
Donovan Libring


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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
small canopies.


Explanation:
canopy: In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant community or crop, formed by plant crowns.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_(biology)

Lumen (X)
Brazil
Local time: 11:39
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
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Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: Yes, this is the correct answer (I've been studying ornamental horticulture for 3 yeaers).
2 hrs
  -> Many thanks. I have been working with the scientists at the School of Agronomy of the Federal University of Goiás for some years now.
agree  Mary Palmer
4 hrs
  -> Thanks, Mary.
agree  Christina Paiva
8 hrs
agree  Evans (X): since it is talking about the trees or plants themselves, this is the right answer
13 hrs
neutral  Enza Longo: As far as I know, cobertura is cover and copa (das árvores) is canopy in my experience translating these types of texts
16 hrs
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
little tree coverage


Explanation:
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The temperature there was 95 degrees with little tree coverage. The warm breezes that would occasionally blow were a godsend. We took a brief tour of Love A ...
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Fairly open with little tree coverage.” Report This. Was this review helpful to you? → YES / NO. Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other ...
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Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Local time: 16:39
Native speaker of: Native in NorwegianNorwegian, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  suesimons
5 mins
  -> Obrigado
agree  R. Alex Jenkins
2 hrs
  -> Obrigado
agree  Rachel Fell: herbaceous plants with little tree cover
23 days
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
little arboreal coverage


Explanation:
Land use systems in grassland dominated regions: proceedings of ... - Google Books Result
D. Suter - 2004 - Business & Economics - 1231 pages
Forage value and the number of species were negatively correlated to arboreal and shrubby cover (Figure 1). However, a low arboreal coverage (< 20 %) did ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=3728129402... -

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Note added at 7 mins (2010-02-24 20:07:06 GMT)
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Progetto Habio - Provincia di Prato
The coverage formed by the pine - forest, especially when excessively dense, ... the disappearance of heather, plants which are in great need of sunlight. ... suffers from the excessive shading caused by the arboreal coverage which ...
habio.provincia.prato.it/habio9en.htm

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 10:39
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 15

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  suesimons: Not used in general speech, more technical. Hi Marlene, didnt realise it was a technical doc. my apologies.
5 mins
  -> The subject is technical, it's Botany./The Portuguese word "arbóreo" is only used in a technical context.
agree  Francis Kastalski: I would say so.
6 mins
  -> Thanks!
agree  Verginia Ophof: not much/sparse arboreal coverage, instead of little ?
1 hr
  -> That sounds nice!
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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
leafy and full


Explanation:
this would be my description

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Note added at 19 mins (2010-02-24 20:19:40 GMT)
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however, more context would be nice

Donovan Libring
Local time: 16:39
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
low tree cover


Explanation:
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Patterns of animal diversity in different forms of tree cover in ...
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... and abundance of these four animal taxa in riparian and secondary forest, forest fallows, live fences, and pastures with high and low tree cover. ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17069389 - Similar
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Trees : Parks, Recreation & Cultural Resources : Arlington, Virginia
Areas with "Low Tree Cover" have less than 20% of the area covered by tree canopy. During the past 3 decades, the proportion of the County classified as ...
www.arlingtonva.us/.../ParksRecreationScriptsParksTrees.asp... - Cached - Similar
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Tree and Tundra Cover Anomalies in the Subarctic Forest-Tundra of ...
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of low tree cover are frequently underlain by acidic granitic ..... (223 ± 46 m) than areas of low tree cover (mean elevation 296 ...
pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic48-1-13.pdf - Similar

Enza Longo
Canada
Local time: 10:39
Works in field
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Henrique Serra: Tree cover, definitely! But I would use a different adjective: little, reduced, insufficient.
15 hrs
  -> Thanks, Henrique. I debated which adjective would be the more correct in this case. Your suggestions are definitely valid.
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