Eksempler på bamboo

• As regards making irrigation water available to farmers where and when it was wanted, the spread of the bamboo tubewell was a positive story.

• A bamboo-like reed which grows in tall separate stalks and which is used for thatching roofs and making baskets.

• Within each 10 x 10-m plot, all mature bamboo culms (those with ramified branches and leaves) were measured for diameter at breast height (dbh).

• An annual rate of downstream range expansion for bamboo was extrapolated.

• In laterite outcrops, where the influence of the rains is hardly felt, large expanses of small bamboos of stunted appearance are met with.

• The volume of timber decreased due to logging is derived from the production statistics of timber, fuelwood and bamboo for the year 1993-4.

• Plants were supported by bamboo canes as and when required.

• The economics of the bamboo tubewell: dispelling some myths about appropriate technology.

• It can do so when few species are present, or even only one, such as bamboo.

• These differences were accompanied by reduced tree basal area and tree density in the 5-29-cm-diameter size class in the presence of bamboo.

• Catastrophic disturbance has been proposed as an explanation for bamboo mono-dominance.

• In addition to the net income derived from damwater, resources like fodder, fuelwood, bamboo, and fiber grasses could be collected as well from the forest.

• Although bamboo was a frequently used microhabitat, it was not measured because it was patchy in abundance and was not present in the floristic plots.

• Mean growth rate of bamboo culms was 15.3 cm d-1.

• When women reach the age at which they start to wear hairpins, a bamboo lodge is built for them in a remote place.