And now the very network externalities that solidified its former dominance probably stand in the way of any attempt to return to past glories.
This process typically involves invasion by coarse tall grasses, mostly with competitive stress-tolerant strategies, and rapid development of mono-dominance stands.
But last year the Montana Supreme Court pointed to Montana's early 20th century history of corrupt corporate dominance and let stand the state's own Corrupt Practices Act, which bans independent election spending by corporations.
In particular, simplistic assumptions of the dominance of stand replacing disturbances and uncritical use of the negative exponential model of forest age distribution can lead to seriously biased estimation of reference landscape conditions, and hence need of restoration and conservations of different kinds of forest habitat types (e.g. Angelstam and Andersson 2001; Lõhmus et al. 2004).
The Conservative party avoided a similar collapse, retaining more than 100 seats and its dominance in western Canada, but Harper likewise stood down from his party's leadership.
Even as A.I.G. approached $100 billion in annual revenue, Mr. Greenberg maintained such dominance over the company that insiders joked that its initials actually stood for "All Is Greenberg".
There is a joie de vivre to James's dominance this season, which stands in stark contrast to the scowl he wore the last few years when he was the world's favorite N.B.A. player to hate.
The dominance of young trees stand of those Chinese cities should not be underestimated, as they will experience substantial growth in the near future.
In addition, long-living tree species are able to maintain their dominance in a forest stand even if they only regenerate successfully once over many years (Warner and Chesson 1985).
Nevertheless, the dominance of young vegetation stands in Chinese urban green infrastructure suggests this small carbon sequestration efficiency could become substantial in the near future, given that appropriate policies and management practices are adopted to promote urban green infrastructure for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
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