Sentence examples for dense understory from inspiring English sources

With fewer crabs, the forest has become less diverse, with a dense understory and compacted soils due to the collapse of crab burrows.

80%, dense understory vegetation cover.

Previous studies have reported that dense understory vegetation prevents plant species from invading and growing (Royo and Carson 2006; Tamura 2014).

The upper, middle and lower slope exhibits sparse ("US"; 1% cover), moderate ("MM"; 30% cover), and dense understory vegetation ("LD"; 80% cover), respectively.

Large, old trees are naturally fire-tolerant, but today are often threatened by dense understory cohorts that create fuel ladders that alter likely post-fire successional pathways.

Preference studies have shown that people in general prefer semi-open forests with little undergrowth rather than unmanaged forests with dense understory and an abundance of dead wood.

"As big as gorillas are, it's surprising how nimble they are in these dense understories — it's their preferred habitat".

It prefers mountainous mixed deciduous and conifer forests, especially with old trees and dense understories of bamboo.

Additionally, Kincaid found that riparian hemlock stands occurring in GSMNP are species-rich and contain dense understories of Rhododendron (Joshua Kincaid, personal communication, October, 2008, Shenandoah University).

A. montensis and G. microtarsus were associated to locations with less canopy cover, while O. nigripes preferred locations with lower canopy and denser understory.

O. nigripes was captured at trap locations with a significant higher mean value for PC1 (Table 3; Fig. 1), meaning a lower canopy and denser understory vegetation.