Sentence examples for fire sensitive from inspiring English sources
Fire suppression has been blamed for increasing stand densities and a shift from fire-tolerant trees to shade-tolerant but fire sensitive trees.
The evidence for firing of the landscape, as studied through the genomes of fire sensitive plants, shows no record of plants going through genetic bottlenecks as a result of significant firing events.
Areas closer to agricultural fields had lower fire frequency (r s 0.70, p < 0.001), which is a common occurrence (Lavorel et al. 2007; Archibald et al. 2009), and can thus act as a refuge for more fire sensitive species.
Encroachment of Great Plains grasslands by fire-sensitive woody plants is a large-scale, regional process that fragments grassland landscapes.
The tension between pyrophytic hummock grasslands and fire-sensitive mulga shrubland is a major ecological theme in central Australia.
Cooler/wetter climates are typically associated with less frequent fires and succession of montane forests to more shade-tolerant, fire-sensitive taxa.
In our model, tree abundance is limited without invoking demographic bottlenecks in the transition from fire-sensitive to fire-resistant life history stages.
Patches of fire-sensitive, closed-canopy Acacia aneura shrubland occur within a matrix of highly flammable Triodia grasslands in central Australia (<400 mm mean annual precipitation).
Fires burn off excess plant matter such as dead wood and grass — as well as competing fire-sensitive species — and rejuvenate the soil so that the dominant, fire-resistant plant species can flourish.
"Across western Tasmania, iconic alpine and rainforest areas that are incredibly fire-sensitive have been burnt or are threatened by the fires that are burning across the landscape," Bayley said.
"Incredible tourism assets such as the Walls of Jerusalem and remote mountain ranges featuring fire-sensitive species such as cushion plant, pencil pine and deciduous beech are also threatened by current fire events and the dire season ahead.
