Flies fairly plentiful in open country, with short grass interspersed with palms and stumpy trees, generally leafless.
Flies present in grass country with thin scattering of small thornless and almost leafless trees, but few seen.
The leafless period was defined as the time between the first census when a plant became leafless and the first census when it flushed again.
Trees were classed as dead if they were leafless and with a complete ring of dead cambium at breast height.
Country is fairly thickly covered with trees, but they are leafless at this time of the year.
Of these 90 seedlings, 26% were either uprooted completely or were represented by a leafless stem.
They never appear leafless during the entire year.
The leafless period for each species was calculated as the mean leafless duration of individuals.
