Sentence examples for biodiversity tree from inspiring English sources

Aside from destroying biodiversity, tree plantations have dried up river catchments, caused soil erosion when the land is ploughed for planting (meaning loss of soil carbon), exhausted nutrients and required so many pesticides that the run-off has poisoned marine fisheries.

Fig. 3 Spatial distributions of tree biodiversity, tree stand age and wildfires.

Whitfield looks beyond the literature: he goes off to the forests of Costa Rica with a research team to measure biodiversity and tree size to see if there is some logic to forest structure.

Local biodiversity of tree species in Northwestern Russia is determined by a set of environmental and anthropogenic factors.

Society increasingly asks forestry agencies to consider maintenance of biodiversity alongside tree growth and wood supply when managing forests.

As species richness and PCS are not equivalent, the question of how plantations change PCS and thus the evolutionary history conserved in the associated understorey community is important to fully assess the biodiversity of tree species introductions.

Our findings demonstrate that heathland farming needs to be considered as a "historical site factor" when analysing forest ecosystem processes, since soil legacies resulting from heathland farming may still impact present-day patterns of biodiversity and tree growth in lowland forest ecosystems.

Tree species diversity is the determinant of total forest biodiversity as trees provide resources as well as habitats for almost all other forest species (Haung et al. 2003).

Quantifying the loss of native forest cover is important because, when it comes to conserving biodiversity, all trees are not equal.

To evaluate competing mechanisms influencing urban vegetation cover and tree biodiversity, we collected data from 350 plots in the City of Los Angeles, CA. Alpha and beta tree biodiversity were quantified using sample based rarefaction curves.

This area is typical natural secondary forest with high biodiversity and abundant tree cover.