Sentence examples for fall gaps from inspiring English sources

Tree fall gaps caused by natural disturbances are a major source of heterogeneity in intact forests.

We suggest that maintenance of tree fall gaps as a heterogeneous habitat and dead wood resource is crucial for promoting species richness.

We examined the difference between avian richness and abundance within tree fall gaps and closed canopy forest areas in Kheyrud forest, located on the east of Noshahr Township, Mazandaran province in Iran as a representation of Hyrcanian forest.

We posited that background environmental effects such as climate variables, tree fall gaps, or density-dependent recruitment and mortality would act on all small saplings sizes in a similar manner, whereas wild boar effects would only be present in the smallest size class.

Although tree fall gaps are known to be important components of forest dynamics [56], the canopy gaps produced by reduced impact logging can be substantially different from natural ones [57].

Other forest damage features such as tree-fall gaps, skid trails, and roads were difficult to recognize in Landsat reflectance data or through textural analysis.

One interpretation is that large natural tree-fall gaps that drive AGB changes in a naturally regenerating forest can be picked up at fine spatial scale but are veiled at coarser spatial resolution.

Five had new tree-fall gaps between 100 and 300 m2 in area (Brokaw 1982) and five were in closed-canopy forest.

In both closed-canopy forest and tree-fall gaps at Guandera Reserve, S. stenophyllum Dunal seeds suffered the greatest losses to predators, P. amethystina seeds had the greatest germination and C. flaviflora seeds had the greatest losses to pathogens.

The aim of this study was to answer the following questions: (1) Does an increase in elevation and the formation of tree-fall gaps affect whether dispersed seeds in cloud forests are taken by predators, infected by pathogens or germinate?

In order to take advantage of this opportunity, the current study expanded on past field experiments on the fate of the seed rain in 1° and 2° cloud forest at Maquipucuna Reserve in Ecuador (Myster 2015) by setting up a new seed experiment in closed-canopy forest and in tree-fall gaps at Guandera Reserve in Ecuador.