Sentence examples for fires favoured from inspiring English sources

A major vegetation shift occurred in the mid-18th century, when a sustained increase in local fires favoured the expansion of the low and spreading Cyrilla racemiflora shrublands at the expense of meadows and forests.

Differential recruitment alone may represent the mechanism required for stable coexistence [21], whereby specific fires favour some species but cause the population reduction or even local extinction of others, as has been documented for Leucadendron laureolum in our study area [32].

Low fire severity favoured species that can reproduce vegetatively such as Populus tremuloides, whereas moderate and high fire severity favoured the aerial seedbank species such as Pinus banksiana and Picea mariana.

Our results indicate that the performance against fire is favoured by the high porosity and density of the sepiolite, and by its lack of affinity with bitumen.

Cheatgrass, Bromus tectorum, is one candidate example, a plant that not only grows well on niches emptied by fire, but also favours fire itself (Melgoza et al. 1990; Billings 1993; Kerr et al. 1999).

Two years ago the café chain Pret-a-Manger came under fire for favouring overseas workers: only about one in five of its workers are born in Britain.

In comparison to savanna and forest fires, biofuel fires tend to favour formation of reduced or partially oxidised compounds.

She says the designer "armed with the knowledge" that if fire reached the cladding it could result in "a catastrophic multi-storey fire" should have favoured limited combustibility panels.

Landscapes with extensive older (>35 years since fire) vegetation were favoured by three species; while two species preferred those with extensive mid-age (11 35 years since fire) vegetation.

Overall, salvage logging tended to favour species relying upon vegetative reproduction more than fire alone, which favoured P. banksiana.

The increase in frequency and extent of fires in Portugal has favoured the approval of a new legal frame for forest management, the Forest Intervention Zone (FIZ).