The phrase "a forest clearance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the act of clearing trees and vegetation from a forested area, often for agricultural or development purposes.
Example: "The government has approved a plan for a forest clearance to make way for new housing developments."
Alternatives: "a forest clearing" or "a woodland clearance".
"There are regulations that there shouldn't be any forest clearance when peatland areas are deeper than 3m, but it still happens," he said.
Two Roman roads were built across the region, and later Norse invasions resulted in a period of forest clearance.
Therefore, only a rough estimate can be given of the total number of species contained in these ecosystems, as well as the number that are becoming extinct as a result of forest clearance.
Reasons behind the extirpation of taxa are examined in detail, and include a combination of forest clearance and human activities, isolation of populations, lack of temporal continuity of habitats, edaphic and competition factors affecting distribution of host trees (particularly pine), lack of forest fires and a decline in open forest systems.
The Ankara palace also required a major exercise in forest clearance.
The formation of the current Picea abies forests started 400 years ago and spruce became the dominant forest species during the last two centuries as a result of selective forest clearance, intensive grazing, and more recently, plantations.
Writing in the journal Science, Robert Ewers and his co-authors reconstructed extinction rates from 1970 to 2008, and then forecast future extinction debts under four different scenarios, ranging from "business as usual" to a "strong reduction" in forest clearance, which required deforestation to slow down 80% by 2020.
The introduction of domesticated plants and animals 8000 years ago was the first documented intentional introduction of new species by humans and initiated a long history of forest clearance, habitat fragmentation, and new ecological relationships that resonate in current discussions of conservation and biodiversity.
Instead, after forest clearance, a woody succession takes place from M. divaricata through R. simplex to Metrosideros, the latter recovering mainly through sprouting from cut stumps which are still visible in the forest today.
Although Indonesia has announced a two-year moratorium on new forest clearance, which may represent a trend towards less forest conversion in the future, all concessions granted before this agreement will likely be allowed to proceed with extractive activities.
