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sandhill
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n. A dune.
Wikipedia
A sandhill is a type of ecological community or xeric wildfire-maintained ecosystem. It is not the same as a sand dune. It features very short fire return intervals, one to five years. Without fire, sandhills undergo ecological succession and become more oak dominated.
Entisols are the typical sandhill soil, deep well-drained and nutrient poor. In Florida, sandhills receive cm of rainfall per year, just like the more hydric ecosystems surrounding them. Sandhills are xeric because they have poor water holding capacity.
Dominant vegetation includes longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), American turkey oak ( Quercus laevis), and wiregrass ( Aristida stricta). A number of rare animals are typical of this habitat including the gopher tortoise ( Gopherus polyphemus), red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis), Sherman's fox squirrel ( Sciurus niger shermani), and striped newt ( Notophthalmus perstriatus). Invasive species that are a problem on sandhills include Cogongrass ( Imperata cylindrica), camphor laurels ( Cinnamomum camphora), and Natal grass (Melinis repens).
Usage examples of "sandhill".
Christian was rambling among the sandhills with his greyhound Luke--an English dog, with a cross of the coarser Irish breed.
Maudie Atkinson, bred and born in Cockaigne and the sound of Bow Bells, stood at eventide on a sandhill of the Oasis and gazed yearningly towards the setting sun.
They passed more launches and rivercraft, half-submerged under the drifting sandhills.
Far away the coast reached out, and melted into the morning, the tussocky sandhills seemed to sink to a level with the beach.
The way home was through a gap in the sandhills, and then along a raised grass road between two dykes.
As they stepped on to the highroad from their plank bridge, and looked round at the endless monotony of levels, the land a little darker than the sky, the sea sounding small beyond the sandhills, his heart filled strong with the sweeping relentlessness of life.
Far and wide the beach, the sandhills with their blue marrain, the shining water, glowed together in immense, unbroken solitude.
And in the evening they sat among the sandhills, looking at the black, heavy sea.
But when the long murmur of the distant ocean fell on their ears, the exhausted men forgot their fatigue, and ran up the sandhills with surprising agility.
Far into the South, hazy with afternoon light, a yellow succession of sandhills stretched away, spouting fire against the blue sky of an elder world, but now dead and barren of herbage.
THE PASSAGE OF THE RHINE Low among the swarthy sandhills behind the Abbey of Laach dropped the round red moon.
RAFI What wine do they grow in the desert of Meccah, or on the sandhills of Medina?
Cattle sometimes grazed through the barren sandhills beyond the barbed wire fences, but there were no neighbors.
Then the spoor led out of the ridges and scrub into another area of low orange-coloured sandhills and Johnny broke into a jog trot.
The Hotel Booze was built on a sandhill overlooking the lakeside town of Brrr.