Sentence examples for canopy damage from inspiring English sources
Based on Random Forest variable importance values, plantation age was the best predictor of canopy damage.
The average level of canopy damage within the plantations was 77%.
The more severe the degradation and the canopy damage, the easier it is to accurately map it from satellite observations [25].
We found that canopy damage and regrowth rates varied according to the logging method used, either conventional logging or reduced impact logging.
Though devastating (downing ∼ 70% of the timber at Harvard Forest), the disturbance was not indiscriminate; it left behind a heterogeneous landscape comprised of different levels of canopy damage.
The top ranked regression model indicated that the level of canopy damage reached its maximum around age 15 and stayed relatively high until age 25 before declining.
We used percentage of plant canopy damaged as a measure of defoliation.
By comparing the green canopy to the whole canopy area, we were able to assess the percentage of canopy damaged for each plant, which included yellow and brown desiccated portions of plant canopy characteristic of D. carinulata damage.
Various types of degradation will have different effects on the forest (carbon) and will result in different types of indicators (i.e. trees being removed, canopy damaged), which can be used for monitoring degradation using in situ and remote methods.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04490.018 Thus LOX2 and LOX3 expression increased plants' susceptibility to foliar herbivores, measured as herbivore growth or percentage of plant canopy damaged, but the relationship between foliar herbivore abundance and LOX2/ LOX3 expression was more complex and dependent on plants' position in populations.
A junction that, to the uneducated eye, looks like a thousand others is easily identifiable by the experienced driver, who sees (for example) that the 7-Eleven is on the north side, opposite Burger King, and that the Amoco station has a slightly damaged canopy.
