Sentence examples for edge vegetation from inspiring English sources
Hence, for mitigating edge effects on N + S and N deposition, our results support the recommendation of creating gradual edges at forests with poorly developed, abrupt edges, but it stresses the importance of a thorough consideration of the shape and size of the gradual edge vegetation in the design and management of gradual forest edges.
Along transects perpendicular to the edges, during three months in both winter and summer, throughfall deposition of Cl−, SO42−, NO3−, and NH4+ was monitored in the forest between 0 and 64 m from the edges and in the gradual edge vegetation.
This decrease in throughfall deposition in the forest was not compensated by the additional throughfall deposition on the gradual edge vegetation itself, resulting in a final decrease in throughfall deposition in the forest edge by 60% in winter and 74% in summer.
Over time, the upland adjacent to the tidal marsh was colonized by woody species that contributed cover to the upland edge vegetation plots, but were not rooted in the plot.
We evaluated the effect of land-use history and the proportion of suitable surrounding habitats on the present distribution of grassland species in roadside forest-edge vegetation.
Even in remnant linear habitats such as forest-edge vegetation along roads, historical patterns of site conditions and the landscape matrix at optimum scales can provide useful knowledge to improve explanations of the present distributions of grassland species.
The most robust models of Hm that were developed for both sites included a combination of the crop age obtained from the stand GIS, Site Index (obtained from a GIS surface) and the red-edge vegetation ratio (REVI) The final models of Hm had respective R2 of 0.99 and 0.94 for the Kaingaroa and Tairua sites.
Several conventional and red edge based vegetation indices were computed.
The red edge based vegetation indices were among the important variables for predicting leaf N.
Clonal fragments of A. nudicaulis concentrate live ramets at the edge of vegetation islands, increasing ramet density.
Primary roads were defined as roads that received vehicle travel daily, whereas, secondary roads (firebreaks) rarely received vehicle travel and served as an edge between vegetation communities.
