Sentence examples for control grasslands from inspiring English sources

Sampling was conducted on three firebreak types, as well as two natural control grasslands (in the EN and PA each).

We compared soil characteristics, plant species richness, cover, and community composition of recovering and control grasslands at two elevation zones.

Open sand grassland species, which dominated high-zone control grasslands, recovered in both zones in terms of species richness, but not in cover.

We found minor differences in soil characteristics between recovering and control grasslands suggesting that abiotic conditions were unlikely to limit vegetation recovery.

Closed grassland species, which dominated low-zone control grasslands, did not recover except for a native weed, Calamagrostis epigeios, most likely primarily due to the decline of the water table in the region.

The resilience, or recovery, of these soils is difficult to assess in the absence of uninvaded control grasslands.

The richness of native plant species was about 25% greater on levee transects than on control grassland transects.

We compared five areas with different land uses: P. australis wetland (control), grassland, a mudskipper breeding flat, pond aquaculture and rice cropland.

Using such a landscape in Lower Saxony, Germany, as a model region, we assessed environmental factors that control grassland diversity, including plant community composition, species richness and pollination trait composition.

In this study, we selected five restoration forests: Chinese sweetgum (Liquidamber formosana), schima (Schima superb), masson's pine (Pinus massoniana), slash pine (Pinus elliottii), Chinese sweetgum × slash pine mixtures, and one experimental control (grassland with low coverage of annual and perennial plants).

We focus on big bluestem because traits of the dominant species control grassland ecosystem functioning (Mokany et al. 2008).