Sentence examples for edge environments from inspiring English sources

Processes of natural regeneration in highly fragmented landscapes are strongly influenced by edge environments due to the effects of vegetation cover on microclimate conditions.

Structural differences in forest patches within the fragmented landscape were also found to interact synergistically with habitat fragmentation to influence patterns in microclimate across edge environments.

Further, the occurrence of an extreme drought event during the second year diminished differences between the fragmented and reference landscapes, thereby leading to greater homogeneity of the microclimate across the edge environments.

This idea should be tested in these and similar types of edge environments, as well as in other eastern deciduous forest types where white snakeroot is an abundant component of the herbaceous flora.

Edge environments are a dominant feature in these highly fragmented landscapes, and may directly influence the capacity of the vegetation to ameliorate microclimate conditions and support the successful regeneration of disturbed habitat.

Regardless of human intervention, forest edges will always have different properties and structure associated with edge environments, but the detection of new edges occurring next to deforested areas is essential to differentiating degradation from secondary forests, which may be stable, or regenerating.

I love the way game designer Tom Francis explains the Mirror's Edge environment – as a language that Faith's body has to learn.

The concept of edge environment might help in the design education particularly in conservation and up-grading processes, as an analytical tool and as a design method by careful interventions at edges by fine tuning of the edge environment.

This reading is capable of envisioning and analysing the relationship between the cohesive social pattern language of traditional built environment and its physical expression, relying on a new reflective and exploratory concept, the edge environment.

(361) Ruddell and Hammitt (1987) Survey using stimuli √ √ – – Positive findings: "the refuge symbolic (immediate) edge environment was the most preferred refuge symbolic (distant) was the second most preferred [… and t]he third most preferred was the refuge dominant.

The three main landscape dynamics now underway in Europe –urban sprawl, agricultural intensification and rural abandonment are observed in a Catalan study area located in an edge environment between a metropolitan fringe and two natural protected sites.