Sentence examples for decrease plant from inspiring English sources

Disrupting the feedbacks between plants and their natural enemies is theorized to decrease plant diversity4,21, but this mechanism has not been demonstrated in human-modified forests.

While other scientists were content to document the impact of elevated carbon dioxide on the growth of individual plants, Bazzaz realized that climate change had the potential to alter interactions between species and even to decrease plant diversity.

The regrowth rate of Q. calliprinos under grazing was higher than that of all other tree species suggesting that in the long-term, under such a conservation management regime, the dominance of the evergreen sclerophyllous Q. calliprinos over the deciduous tree species will increase and consequently will decrease plant and animal diversity.

This study was designed to test the hypothesis that alternative vegetation management treatments (manual cutting and cut-stump applications of glyphosate herbicide) would decrease plant community abundance, species diversity, and structural diversity of young mixed conifer plantations in southern British Columbia, Canada.

Residual effects from severe damage decrease plant vigor, resulting in poor yields in subsequent harvests and lower stand density (Fick and Liu 1976).

However, it is known that the expression of plant immune receptors must be tightly regulated for optimal growth and overexpression of plant immune receptors can decrease plant fitness (Bergelson and Purrington 1996; Huot et al. 2014).

2. Planting: Startups have created drone-planting systems that achieve an uptake rate of 75percentt and decrease planting costs by 85percentt.

Even carbon amendment will likely require watershed-scale restoration to permanently decrease plant-available nitrogen (Perry et al. 2010) and future studies will need to determine the efficacy of such approaches on Phragmites.

Plant height decreased, plant moisture content and plant stem diameter increased with increased tractor traffic passes.

Poorly designed alarm systems cause unnecessary disturbances, a waste of resources, and decreased plant operability.

The results suggest that the low leaf temperature increases stomatal resistance, decreases plant and leaf growth rates.