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Tourism & Travel / Tourism | | Spanish term or phrase: piel de pantera | Web turística (España):
"Es obligado la visita al pico de Javalambre y sus alrededores, que son su típica vegetación de piel de pantera, es considerado por muchos botánicos como uno de los lugares más importantes de España por su composición y endemismos vegetales"
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| | | dappled | Explanation:
From a description of such a landscape:
Javalambre tiene un paisaje que los biólogos denominan de piel de pantera. Grandes manchas de sabina color verde oscuro salpican los pastizales más claros, creando un manto que bien merece tal nombre
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From another site. It seems to be a standard term for landscape where scattered clumps of different-colored vegetation show up like spots on a leopard.
* Clima semiárido: (índice xerotérmico entre 100 y 290) el manto de agua subterránea es temporal. Su vegetación climácica es una formación abierta de tipo estepario, es decir, plantas dispuestas en manchas aisladas ó \"piel de pantera\". Se incluirían ambos bordes del Sahara e incluso buena parte de las mediterráneas.
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Note added at 23 mins (2005-02-07 11:43:12 GMT)
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http://www.eca.uji.es/desierto.htm
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Hanmer Forest Park - Arthur\'s Pass National Park: Mountain-Bike ...
... the forest park is especially beautiful as the soft orange and gold hues of the poplars, birch, sycamore and rowan trees create a colourful dappled landscape. ...
www.newzealandnz.co.nz/forest-parks/hanmer.html - 43k - Feb 6, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages
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Joshua Tree NP: Old Dale Road/Gold Crown Road 4WD Expedition ...
... I noticed that the sandy soil here was dappled with yellow blooming tufts of ... In the
desert, no matter what month you visit, there is always something in bloom ...
www.desertusa.com/magdec97/offroad/dalerd_dec.html - 25k - Feb 6, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages |
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Daniel Burns
Local time: 00:33
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19 mins confidence: characteristic 'leopard-spot' vegetation (and explain)
Explanation:
I think you could use the term 'leopard-spot' in inverted commas perhaps and even explain that this is a combination of different kinds of vegetation, which produces a 'leopard-spot' pattern/landscape.
HTH
Sheila
Muchas de las plantas que se encuentran en las más altas estepas deben su prosperidad a la sabina rastrera, una planta que se ha ganado con su perseverancia el título de reina de las cumbres. A socaire de las grandes manchas de sabinas crecen hierbas y flores de pequeña altura. Javalambre tiene un paisaje que los biólogos denominan de piel de pantera. Grandes manchas de sabina color verde oscuro salpican los pastizales más claros, creando un manto que bien merece tal nombre. Especies primitivas sobreviven de pasadas eras glaciales, y un buen número de endemismos vegetales hacen de Javalambre lugar de cita para amantes de la biología.
http://personal.redestb.es/abel20/rutas interesantes.htm
Medios naturales desérticos
... Su vegetación climácica es una formación abierta de tipo estepario, es decir,
plantas dispuestas en manchas aisladas ó "piel de pantera". ...
www1.uji.es/eca/desierto.htm - 35k - Còpia en memòria - Pàgines semblants
Two days later we were up in the mists and cold of Sierra de Javalambre. This area of Valencia province, although a detached enclave between La Mancha and Teruel provinces, is proud to be the most ancient part of Valencia, captured from the Arabs early on in the Reconquista. The juniper forests themselves are a link with Spain’s legendary freedom fighter El Cid, for the open woodland allowed his cavalry both concealment and mobility. On the arid hillsides of Javalambre isolated trees or clumps of the upright Spanish Juniper (Juniperus thurifera) are often surrounded by prostrate thickets of Savin (J. sabina), producing a characteristic ‘leopard-spot’ vegetation.
http://www.plant-talk.org/stories/14micros.html
|   Sheila Hardie
Local time: 07:33
Works in field
Native speaker of:  English
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13 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 dappled
Explanation:
From a description of such a landscape:
Javalambre tiene un paisaje que los biólogos denominan de piel de pantera. Grandes manchas de sabina color verde oscuro salpican los pastizales más claros, creando un manto que bien merece tal nombre
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Note added at 22 mins (2005-02-07 11:42:20 GMT)
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From another site. It seems to be a standard term for landscape where scattered clumps of different-colored vegetation show up like spots on a leopard.
* Clima semiárido: (índice xerotérmico entre 100 y 290) el manto de agua subterránea es temporal. Su vegetación climácica es una formación abierta de tipo estepario, es decir, plantas dispuestas en manchas aisladas ó \"piel de pantera\". Se incluirían ambos bordes del Sahara e incluso buena parte de las mediterráneas.
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Note added at 23 mins (2005-02-07 11:43:12 GMT)
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http://www.eca.uji.es/desierto.htm
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Note added at 31 mins (2005-02-07 11:51:03 GMT)
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Hanmer Forest Park - Arthur\'s Pass National Park: Mountain-Bike ...
... the forest park is especially beautiful as the soft orange and gold hues of the poplars, birch, sycamore and rowan trees create a colourful dappled landscape. ...
www.newzealandnz.co.nz/forest-parks/hanmer.html - 43k - Feb 6, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages
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Note added at 36 mins (2005-02-07 11:55:44 GMT)
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Joshua Tree NP: Old Dale Road/Gold Crown Road 4WD Expedition ...
... I noticed that the sandy soil here was dappled with yellow blooming tufts of ... In the
desert, no matter what month you visit, there is always something in bloom ...
www.desertusa.com/magdec97/offroad/dalerd_dec.html - 25k - Feb 6, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages
| Daniel Burns
Local time: 00:33
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
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