Sentence examples for cover abundance from inspiring English sources

Transects were set to assess plant cover, abundance, and richness.

Flower cover, abundance and species richness of bumblebees and birds were significantly higher in the more heterogeneous landscapes of Southern Estonia.

Consequently, trends for organic farming gains were also detected for the cumulated cover abundance of plants (+9.0%, NS) and the number of individuals of earthworms (+3.8, NS), spiders (+5.7%, NS) and bees (+23.8, NS) in production habitats (Fig. 4a).

We measured leaf area loss of Rubiaceae plants in 20 forest sites located in the Brazilian Atlantic forest, and also tested whether variation in forest cover, abundance of insectivorous birds (predators) and of Rubiaceae plants (resources) could explain the observed variation in leaf damage.

By applying the recently developed model REVEALS (Regional Estimates of VEgetation Abundance from Large Sites) (Sugita, 2007) to pollen data from a large number of sites across Northern Germany and Denmark, we construct maps of regional patterns in landscape openness and in cover abundance of key plant taxa in the cultural landscape of north-central Europe for selected time slices in the Holocene.

13717_2013_49_MOESM1_ESM.xlsx Additional file 1: Full species list, including frequency and cover abundance, for nine EGRs. XLSX 47 KB).

The cover-abundance of perennial wildflower species was strongly influenced by drought disturbance.

The cover-abundance of flowering plants and habitat structural components (e.g. bare ground, moss) were measured on the Domin-Krajina scale within all identified microhabitats.

Cover-abundance of the PFTs and community-level weighted means (CWMs) of the non-redundant traits were computed for 80 sites.

The work suggests that the higher cover-abundance of weedy species is a result of alterations to the soil surface caused by rabbit disturbances, and that destruction of the warren complex, in order to prevent re-invasion and hence re-working of the mound, is required to enable native perennials to colonise.

Mounds supported significantly more exotic plants than non-mounds, and there was a clear separation between the two microsites in terms of the cover-abundances of vascular plants.