0 an area of land that is not used for growing crops, where grass and other small plants grow, but where there are few trees or bushes --
Soil of the heath stand consisted of coarse-textured sand that does not hold much water in dry periods.
This capacity is less likely in heath forests on shallow soils.
Characterising sclerophylly: some mechanical properties of leaves from heath and forest.
Places with ridge and heath vegetation are preferred foraging habitats.
The peat-swamp forest was relatively more intact than the heath forest that had often been disturbed by local logging activities.
Small pockets of kerangas (heath) forest also occur.
The heath plot was on coarse-textured bleached sand, whereas the peat-swamp plot was on the peat deposition of c. 7 m deep.
Both specific leaf area and area per leaf of heath forest seedlings were lower than those of peat-swamp forest seedlings.
