Sentence examples for a gradient of forest from inspiring English sources

Field data were collected representing a gradient of forest degradation within a large-scale experimental landscape.

At the species level, Landsat showed a gradient of forest resilience to tropical cyclone winds that agreed with observational field studies.

The 128 studied stands represented four management stages: clear-cuts, retention cuts with solitary trees, mature commercial forests, and (as reference) old growth across a gradient of forest site-types.

Combining the approach used in landscape research with non-market valuation techniques, the aim of this study is to document human habitat selection for recreational purposes in a gradient of forest naturalness.

Our study examines the responses of aerial insect assemblages to a gradient of forest retention at the landscape scale, and provides an assessment of the conservation benefits of alternative versus traditional harvesting systems in lowland boreal forest.

In this paper we compare the suitability of three suites of ALS metrics to discriminate changes in vegetation structure across a gradient of forest harvest retention levels (100% retention (uncut control), 75%, 50 %, 20 %, 10 and 0% (cleandcut)) for four boreal forest stand types: conifer, deciduous, mixed, and deciduous with conifer understorey.

We tested these hypotheses by undertaking farmland bird censuses during two contrasting periods of agricultural policies and land-use (i.e. 1994 and 2004) in a farmland region covering a gradient of forest- to farmland-dominated landscapes in Sweden.

In this paper we address the following questions: How does A. dealbata perform across a gradient of native forest and invasive stands?

We sampled 22 fragmented landscapes dominated by sugarcane plantations along a wide gradient of forest cover (3% to 96%) in southeastern Brazil.

Mill).. Estimates of key fiber attributes (including wood density, coarseness, fiber length, and modulus of elasticity) were derived from measurements of wood cores taken from sample plots representing a wide structural gradient of forest stands.

We use morphological and behavioural traits to calculate a variety of functional diversity measures across a gradient of disturbance from primary forest through intensively logged forest to oil palm.