Sentence examples for canopy communities from inspiring English sources

Even if closed forest communities present lower native species diversity values than open canopy communities, they sustain different PFTs that present high conservation values for forest fauna.

These results are of great importance to understand the imminent and past impacts of hurricane storms on canopy communities in hurricane prone regions.

The samples generated separately for each population are not necessarily probabilistic samples on the intersection of the populations, i.e. on closed canopy community forests and bias may ensue.

The primary results of our paper was the demonstration that (i) the invertebrate assemblage inhabiting the leaves is not representative of the wider canopy community, and (ii) each microhabitat supports a unique assemblage in terms of species composition, species richness, relative abundances, and density.

Our study is the first to our knowledge to examine the effect of host tree identity on soil arthropod community composition, with evolutionary history accounted for; however, similar positive relationships exist for canopy arthropod communities (Novotny et al. 2006).

The resultant edge effects may have a major impact on canopy lichen communities in the surrounding forest matrix.

This combination of conditions favouring the development of canopy lichen communities in old forests was best expressed in low elevation water receiving sites.

If these distinctive canopy lichen communities are to be conserved, it is important to learn how they are affected by forestry practices, including partial-cutting techniques designed to retain old-growth attributes.

Specifically, little is known about how urbanization impacts tall tree canopy epiphyte communities, a unique and sensitive component of Pacific Northwest trees which are known to contribute essential ecosystem functions.

Maple may be most likely to replace oak and hickory in the canopies of communities at mid- and lower-slope positions with intermediate soil moisture.

We conducted a 2-year field-experiment in Shanghai and Jiangsu province in eastern China, examining the effects of the ecological engineering of ground cover plant Trifolium repens on the diversity and stability of canopy arthropod community in peach orchards.