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  • noun the edge of the habitat at which trees are capable of growing; the timberline

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Examples

  • Till I camped above the tree-line – drifted snow and naked boulders –

    Eastern Europe 2009

  • I've been scouting the area, and it seems the deer come out of the corn well away from the tree-line, and visit the apples on the ground for a tasty treat. then they continue on past the house, and then cross the road into the neighbor's field.

    This is an ethics question. I hunt a tree line for the most part. 2009

  • I walked out to the beach to get away from the tree-line

    Lake Erie on a Monday Night Anthony M. Powers 2010

  • Furthermore there are so many other proxies of climate change, from decadal worldwide ocean wave height increases, lake temperature rises (check Lake Biakal's 60 year record or Superior for that matter), Australia drought patterns, tree-line migration, wild-life migrations, rising snowlines throughout the cryosphere, world wide wild-fire intensity, and all the diminishing glaciers (where no dumb errors of simple division were repeated in print.)

    Scientist Discusses Latest Report of Rising Global Temperatures | Universe Today 2010

  • The bottom of the tundra zone is typically marked as the top of the boreal forest tree-line.

    Arctic 2010

  • With the caution of a hunter, Brian approached the diminutive figure standing by the dark tree-line of firs.

    CLOSER TO THE TRUTH • by Oonah V Joslin 2008

  • But at Gettysburg, just south of the town and west of the Emmitsburg Road near the tree-line from which 12-15,000 Confederate soldiers emerged on the third day of battle to attack the United States army on Cemetery Ridge, stands a tall marble and bronze statue of General Robert E. Lee, commanding general of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

    Bob Cesca: Ground Zero Mosque Opponents Have a Lot of Work to Do 2010

  • But at Gettysburg, just south of the town and west of the Emmitsburg Road near the tree-line from which 12-15,000 Confederate soldiers emerged on the third day of battle to attack the United States army on Cemetery Ridge, stands a tall marble and bronze statue of General Robert E. Lee, commanding general of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

    Bob Cesca: Ground Zero Mosque Opponents Have A Lot of Work To Do 2010

  • Ethan stepped to the edge of the path and looked down on the baseball field on the other side of the tree-line.

    Brown-Eyed Girl Mariah Stewart 2010

  • Holocene vegetational and limnological changes in the Fennoscandian tree-line area as documented by pollen and diatom records from Lake Tsuolbmajavri, Finland.

    Effects of climate change on hydro-ecology of contributing basins in the Arctic 2009

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