Sentence examples for changes in cover from inspiring English sources

Since about 2002, selective exclusions of lagomorphs and small mammals have resulted in changes in cover of some perennial shrubs.

The Zagros oak forests in western Iran have undergone dramatic changes in cover and structure in recent decades, with negative consequences for the communities that depend upon them.

Here we report changes in cover, pigments, pigment ratios and FvFm of the N-tolerant, terricolous, lichen Cladonia foliacea after 1 2 y adding N in order to study its potential as biomarker of atmospheric pollution.

Studies of contemporary land-cover change require an integrated approach because changes in cover and environmental conditions are primarily caused by land uses, which, in turn are governed by human driving forces in a specific socio-economic and cultural context.

Changes in cover and taxon richness were less variable than proportional turnover metrics, indicating that dominant and common species have strong effects on total production and do not change in cover or distribution as much as minor and uncommon species.

We then recorded changes in cover of lawn and bunch grass over the following 2-year period.

Medians were used when calibrating change in cover for each aerial category (see Fig. 1a).

Change in cover of the invasive grass was positively related to proportional loss and negatively related to gain.

However, relative to continental ecosystems, forests on oceanic islands continue to undergo a much greater proportional extent and rate of change in cover and composition, which threatens the sustainability of forest-based good and services including C stocks [13, 14].

Adding accumulated thermal stress in a linear model against either absolute change in coral cover, proportional change in cover or SARCC did not result in a significant coefficient.

Where a disturbance lasted multiple years, cover loss was the total change in cover during that period as a proportion of the initial cover.