Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of low, heath-like shrubs, of 2 species, the type of the natural order Empetraceæ; the crowberry or crakeberry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A genus of heathlike shrubs including the crowberry (
Empetrum nigrum ).
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- noun crowberries
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Examples
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Growth response of subarctic dwarf shrubs, '' Empetrum nigrum '' and '' Vaccinium vitis-ideae '', to manipulated environmental conditions and species removal.
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009
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Allelopathic effects by Empetrum hermaphroditum on seed germination of two boreal tree species.
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Four dwarf shrubs were studied over the first three years of the experiment; one, the deciduous bilberry, showed increased annual stem growth (length) in the first year whereas two other evergreen dwarf shrubs (mountain crowberry – '' Empetrum hermaphroditum '' and lingonberry) showed reduced growth.
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009
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Growth response of subarctic dwarf shrubs, Empetrum nigrum and Vaccinium vitis-ideae, to manipulated environmental conditions and species removal.
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'' Racomitrium ''/'' Empetrum '' heath in Iceland showing erosion.
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Laine [60] showed that the reproduction of bilberry ( '' Vaccinium myrtillus '') depended to some extent on the climate in the previous years (see section 14.7.3 for examples of this in trees), whereas Shevtsova et al. [61] showed no such response for co-occurring lingonberry and crowberry ( '' Empetrum nigrum '').
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009
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The dwarf scrub communities are dominated by crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) and include other ericads (Vaccinium spp.), arctic willow (Salix arctica), and white mountain-avens (Dryas octopetala).
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This is a diverse community of ferns, sedges, grasses, angiosperms and mosses and is dominated by B. palmiforme, crowberry Empetrum rumbrum, grasses and sedges.
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In frost pockets a heath dominated by Empetrum and Bolax is found.
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Typical species are dwarf birch Betula nana, Arctic crowberry Empetrum nigrum ssp. hermaphroditum and Arctic blueberry Vaccinium uliginosum ssp. microphyllum.
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