Sentence examples for Selective harvesting from inspiring English sources

Selective harvesting of tawa may be of interest to forest owners wishing to restore conifer-broadleaved forests by offering the opportunity for some immediate revenue that can support restoration and potentially aid conifer regeneration (Carswell et al. [2007]).

Selective harvesting of pines was replaced by clearcutting of all lumber in a tract.

Small areas of selectively cut forests were also present, with selective harvesting of single trees and irregular forest use.

In some areas, forest managers may be able to benefit from loggers with experience in selective harvesting in other settings, such as exploitation cuttings that selectively removed only the highest value trees.

The selective harvesting was repeated again when 50% of the randomly selected fish were mature.

She said that smaller yields were the result of selective harvesting methods ushered in after a 1994 European Union ban on industrial-scale coral dredging.

There is now mounting evidence that artificial selection such as size-selective harvesting reduces the average viability in some populations (Fenberg and Roy 2008).

Finally, small-selected fish did not perform well when random harvesting (with respect to body size) or dome-shaped size-selective harvesting (representing large-selection with a harvest slot-length limit) was operating (Table 5, Supporting Information S7; Fig. S3).

The weak response of juvenile growth rate of small-selected fish after five generations of size-selective harvesting is in contrast to a groundbreaking experimental study on harvest-induced selection in Atlantic silversides by Conover and Munch (2002), who reported a steep decline in (juvenile) growth rate after four generations of size-selective harvesting.

We assessed a range of life-history, physiological, and behavioral traits expected to change in response to size selection after five generations of size-selective harvesting.

To study the growth differences among the selection lines after five generations of size-selective harvesting, we used replicate boxes (each stocked with 10 fish) for each of the experimental populations and their replicate lines (altogether 48 rearing boxes).