0 past simple and past participle of coppice
1 to cut trees or bushes back in order to form a small, closely planted area
The difference in the numbers of nymphs on coppiced versus control trees was compared using a chi-square analysis.
However, some of the longer branches, reaching too far into the plot, were coppiced.
Eucalypts coppiced naturally by wild fire were found to carry significantly more nymphs than non-coppiced conspecific hosts.
They also did not show a preference for coppiced plants, as did the second instars (see below).
The live and dry weights of fifth instar nymphs collected from coppiced and control trees differed markedly (table 4).
While these results show that nymphs seem to prefer coppiced plants, they are ambiguous with regard to explaining the reason for this preference.
Dicymbe corymbosa trees that were not coppiced or had coppiced above the 1.3 m level were measured as a single trunk.
First instar nymphs were evenly distributed between short (coppiced) and tall (non-coppiced) plants.
