Broadleaf forest. Broadleaf forests are the dominant habitat of the UK and most of temperate northern Europe. There's little left of Britain's ancient wildwood, but isolated pockets of oak, beech and mixed deciduous and evergreen woodlands are scattered across the continent, and dictate its biodiversity.
Engine pinging also refered to as pinking, detonation or knocking. Pinging can be anything from a loud knocking noise to a soft tinkling sound that is emitted from the engine. If an engine has a tendency to ping, it usually becomes first audible when operated in the lower rpm range and during acceleration.
Science and Technology. 1  Ping, a pulse of sound in active sonar. 2  Pinging, the noise indicative of improper combustion in internal combustion engines. 3  Ping (Chinese: åª), a Taiwanese measure of area.  Ping project, a project of the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet)