Sentence examples for established forest from inspiring English sources

Urban development often results in diminished forest cover and severely fragmented landscapes, but most research on effects of urban development has been focused on densely forested regions and has not distinguished remnant from recently established forest cover.

Countries such as Indonesia and Chile have established forest plantations by converting natural forests, while in New Zealand and Portugal, plantation establishment has shifted entirely to sites formerly used for agriculture (Kanowski, 1997).

We sampled 83 aspen-dominated stands within a 275 km2 landscape using established forest health monitoring protocols.

Our findings suggest that a more flexible approach to determining the price of recently established forest product extraction permits would greatly enhance management efficiency without significantly compromising local wellbeing.

By updating an older land cover product (the 1993 Maine GAP map) using Landsat imagery and established forest change detection techniques, we demonstrate a practical and accurate means of providing contemporary, spatially explicit forest cover data needed to quantify landscape change.

The wood was considered to be derived from an established forest or a natural forest was managed sustainably.

Predictions of the long-term development of newly established forest-reclaimed ecosystems are required for land use planning of post-mining landscapes.

Remnant forests had higher canopy cover, basal area, and native species dominance than recently established forests.

If the deforestation numbers could be subtracted from the global carbon equation, established forests and forest regrowth could potentially capture half the carbon dioxide emitted from burning fossil fuels.

For example, shortly after plants became well established, forests of giant lycopods (club mosses) and tree ferns provided food and shelter for numerous arthropods, including winged insects, on which four-legged amphibious vertebrates fed.

The main objective of this study was to determine if shallow ground water nitrate nitrogen (NO3 N) and ammonium nitrogen (NH4 N) concentrations differed among cropland (hay or corn), restored riparian buffers (grass and Salix-grass), and established forested riparian buffers.