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Oldfield Brow
Oldfield, old field, old fields or oldfields may refer to: Old fields *Old field (ecology), land previously cultivated but now abandoned *Old field or Indian old field, abandoned Native American cultivated fields Places * Oldfield, Missouri, United States *Old Field, New York, a village in Suffolk County, New York, United States * Oldfield, Ontario, Canada * Oldfield River, Western Australia *Oldfields, a house and estate forming part of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, United States * Oldfields Ground, a former cricket ground in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England * Oldfields, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States * Old Fields, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, United States * Oldfield, West Yorkshire, England People *Oldfield (name), list of people called Oldfield Wildlife * Oldfieldia, a plant genus in the family Picrodendraceae * Oldfieldioideae, a former subfamily of Euphorbiaceae no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Field (ecology)
Old field is a term used in ecology to describe lands formerly cultivated or grazed but later abandoned. The dominant flora include perennial grasses, heaths and herbaceous plants. Old fields are canonically defined as an intermediate stage found in ecological succession in an ecosystem advancing towards its climax community, a concept which has been debated by contemporary ecologists for some time. Old field sites are often marginal lands with soil quality unsuitable for crops or pasture. Examples include abandoned farmlands in central Ontario, along the edge of the Canadian Shield. Stress tolerant species with wide seed dispersal ranges are able to colonize cultivated fields after their initial abandonment, usually followed by perennial grasses. The succession of old fields culminates in takeover by trees and shrubs, eventually leading to a climax forest stand. How old fields form Most old fields form as a result of agricultural land abandonment, the rate of which has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldfieldia
''Oldfieldia'' is a plant genus under the family Picrodendraceae, the only member of its subtribe (Paiveusinae). It was described as a genus in 1850. Oldfieldia is endemic to Africa. ;Species Oldfieldia is after Richard Albert Kearns Oldfield (R.A.K Oldfield) the British plant collector in Nigeria and Sierra Leone and surgeon on the 1832-1834 Niger River expedition with Laird and Lauder # ''Oldfieldia africana Oldfieldia africana, also known as the African oak, is a large tree which can grow to 36 metres or more in height. It is to be found across West Africa in such countries as Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Rep ...'' Benth. & Hook.f. - Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Republic # '' Oldfieldia dactylophylla'' (Welw. ex Oliv.) J.Léonard - Zaïre, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola # '' Oldfieldia macrocarpa'' J.Léonard - Zaïre # '' Oldfieldia somalensis'' (Chiov.) Milne-Redh - Somali, Ken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldfield School
Oldfield School is a secondary school, with a small sixth form, in Newbridge, Bath, England. Since February 2011, the school has had academy status, meaning that it operates outside the control of the local authority. Prior to 2012 the main school was for girls only, with a co-educational sixth form. In 2017, the school had 1036 students aged 11 to 18. History Oldfield School was founded in 1892 to serve the city of Bath; in 1959 the school moved from the city centre to agricultural land on the western outskirts of the city, overlooking the River Avon valley, and now attracts pupils from a wider area including the eastern outskirts of Bristol. Recent buildings include a drama studio, dance studio, sports hall, and a new teaching block for Mathematics and Humanities. Some expansion classroom blocks date from the 1970s and 1980s. The school has on-site playing fields. In the 1990s and early 2000s the school took an early opportunity to gain more independence from local authori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldfield Boys' School
Beechen Cliff School is a boys' secondary school in Bath, Somerset, England, with about 1,150 pupils. Its earliest predecessor school was founded in 1896. There are around 930 boys in years 7 to 11 and a co-educational sixth form of 402 pupils. The school offers the option of state boarding. It is located just south of the city centre near Alexandra Park, up a hill from Bear Flat on the A367, a major route from the south of the city into Bath. History The school began in 1896 as Bath City Secondary School in the Guildhall. It moved from the Guildhall Technical College to its present site at Beechen Cliff in 1932 when it was renamed the City of Bath Boys' School. It changed to its present name in 1970 when the City of Bath reorganised secondary education. The grammar school was amalgamated with Oldfield Boys' School, a local secondary modern school founded in 1903, to form a comprehensive school. On 7 August 1988, on a school climbing expedition in the Briançon region of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuttallanthus Canadensis
''Nuttallanthus canadensis'', the blue toadflax, Canada toadflax, or old-field toadflax, is a species of '' Nuttallanthus'' in the family Plantaginaceae, native to eastern North America from Ontario east to Nova Scotia and south to Texas and Florida.USDA Plants Profile''Nuttallanthus canadensis''/ref> Description It is an annual or biennial plant growing to 25–80 cm tall, with slender, erect flowering stems. The leaves are slender, 15–30 mm long and 1–2.5 mm broad. The flowers are purple to off-white, 10–15 mm long, appearing from mid spring to late summer.Huxley, A, ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Distribution and habitat It is grown as an ornamental plant in its native area. It has been introduced to western North America and Europe, and is now locally naturalized, from Washington south to California, and also in Russia. It typically grows in bare areas and grassland. Ecology The plant is a nectar source for bees and butterflies. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomasomys
''Thomasomys'' is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae, named after British zoologist Oldfield Thomas. Nuclear DNA sequence analysis has indicated that it is a sister taxon to '' Rhagomys''. It contains the following species: * Anderson's Oldfield mouse (''Thomasomys andersoni'') * Antonio Brack's Oldfield mouse (''Thomasomys antoniobracki'') * Apeco Oldfield mouse (''Thomasomys apeco'') * Golden Oldfield mouse (''Thomasomys aureus'') * Beady-eyed mouse (''Thomasomys baeops'') * Silky Oldfield mouse The silky Oldfield mouse (''Thomasomys bombycinus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions ... (''Thomasomys bombycinus'') * Burneo’s Oldfield mouse (''Thomasomys burneoi'') * White-tipped Oldfield mouse (''Thomasomys caudivarius'') * Ashy-bellied Oldfield mouse (''Thomasomys cinereiventer'') * Ash-colored Oldfie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricetidae
The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. It includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and New World rats and mice. At almost 608 species, it is the second-largest family of mammals, and has members throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Characteristics The cricetids are small mammals, ranging from just in length and in weight in the New World pygmy mouse up to and in the muskrat. The length of their tails varies greatly in relation to their bodies, and they may be either furred or sparsely haired. The fur of most species is brownish in colour, often with a white underbelly, but many other patterns exist, especially in the cricetine and arvicoline subfamilies. Like the Old World mice, cricetids are adapted to a wide range of habitats, from the high Arctic to tropical rainforests and hot deserts. Some are arboreal, with long balancing tails and other adaptations for climbing, while others are semiaquatic, with w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldfield Mouse
The oldfield mouse or beach mouse (''Peromyscus polionotus''), is a nocturnal species of rodent in the family Cricetidae and primarily eats seeds. It lives in holes throughout the Southeastern United States in beaches and sandy fields. Predators to these mice include birds and mammals. In 2010, these mice were in the least concern category on the IUCN Red List with certain subspecies classified as extinct or near threatened. Distribution and habitat The oldfield mouse occurs only in the southeastern United States, ranging from Florida to Tennessee. They primarily live in beaches and sandy fields.Whitaker 1998, p. 308 Description The mouse has fawn-colored upperparts and grey to white underparts through most of its range, but on white sandy beaches, the mouse is light or even white. Inland populations are darker and smaller with shorter tails that are dusky above and white below. General body and tail color may vary slightly depending upon geographical location. Behavior The mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trifolium Arvense
''Trifolium arvense'', commonly known as the hare's-foot clover, rabbitfoot clover, stone clover or oldfield clover, is a flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae. This species of clover is native to most of Europe, excluding the Arctic zone, and western Asia, in plain or mid-mountain habitats up to altitude. It grows in dry sandy soils, both acidic and alkaline, soil with dry-mesic conditions and is typically found at the edge of fields, in wastelands, at the side of roads, on sand dunes, and opportunistically in vineyards and orchards when they are not irrigated. Description ''Trifolium arvense'' is a small erect herbaceous annual or biennial plant, growing to 10–40 cm tall. Like all clovers, its leaves are trifoliate, divided into three slender, sessile leaflets 1–2 cm long and 3–5 mm broad, sometimes edged with small hairs and finely serrated. The leaves have a pair of stipules at the base, often tipped in red. The flowers are grouped in a dense ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euphorbiaceae
Euphorbiaceae, the spurge family, is a large family of flowering plants. In English, they are also commonly called euphorbias, which is also the name of a genus in the family. Most spurges, such as '' Euphorbia paralias'', are herbs, but some, especially in the tropics, are shrubs or trees, such as ''Hevea brasiliensis''. Some, such as ''Euphorbia canariensis'', are succulent and resemble cacti because of convergent evolution. This family has a cosmopolitan global distribution. The greatest diversity of species is in the tropics, however, the Euphorbiaceae also have many species in nontropical areas of all continents except Antarctica. Description The leaves are alternate, seldom opposite, with stipules. They are mainly simple, but where compound, are always palmate, never pinnate. Stipules may be reduced to hairs, glands, or spines, or in succulent species are sometimes absent. The plants can be monoecious or dioecious. The radially symmetrical flowers are unisexual, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picrodendraceae
Picrodendraceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 80 species in 24 genera.Stephens, P.F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008. http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/ These are subtropical to tropical and found in New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, Madagascar, continental Africa, and tropical America. Its closest relatives are Phyllanthaceae. This family used to be known as the subfamily Oldfieldioideae of the Euphorbiaceae. Taxonomy The family contains about 80 species organised into three tribes, ten subtribes and 24 genera. Genera * ''Androstachys'' * '' Aristogeitonia'' * ''Austrobuxus'' * '' Celaenodendron'' * ''Choriceras'' * '' Dissiliaria'' * '' Hyaenanche'' * ''Kairothamnus'' * ''Longetia'' * ''Micrantheum'' * ''Mischodon'' * ''Neoroepera'' * ''Oldfieldia'' * ''Paradrypetes'' * ''Parodiodendron'' * '' Petalostigma'' * '' Picrodendron'' * '' Piranhea'' * '' Podocalyx'' * ''Pseudanthus'' * ''Scagea ''Scagea'' is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldfield (name)
Oldfield is a surname, and occasionally a given name. Given name *Oldfield Thomas, British zoologist Surname *Anne Oldfield, 18th century English actress * Audrey Oldfield, Australian children's writer and historian * Augustus Frederick Oldfield, 18th century botanist *Barney Oldfield, early American automobile racer *Bert Oldfield, Australian cricket player *Brian Oldfield, American track and field athlete * Bruce Oldfield, British fashion designer *Buddy Oldfield, British cricket player and umpire * Christopher Oldfield, English cricketer and British Army officer * Clarence Oldfield, South African runner and Olympic medalist * Claude Houghton Oldfield, British novelist who published as Claude Houghton *David Oldfield (politician), Australian politician *David Oldfield (footballer), English football player and manager * Edmund L. Oldfield (1863–1938), American politician *Eric Oldfield, Australian actor * George Oldfield (police officer), a British police detective involved in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
