Sentence examples for foliage damage from inspiring English sources

Contrary to the opinion that trees with foliage damage caused by leaf miners would be more susceptible to BCD and help accelerate its spread, Dr Straw said the decade-long study did not support such a view.

In fact, the higher water use of the latter species might imply the need of additional irrigation to prevent foliage damage and/or desiccation under prolonged drought.

Moreover, the impact of foliage-gleaning bats on the reduction of leaf damage was even stronger than that of birds [8].

Furthermore, the diversity of vertebrate predators might also influence intensity of arthropod herbivory, with a higher species richness and abundance of foliage-gleaning birds and bats leading to a stronger reduction in leaf damage.

Plants can protect themselves against herbivores and leaf damage by investing in secondary metabolites that lower leaf palatability for arthropods and/or aid as an olfactory cue to guide predators, parasitoids or foliage-gleaning insectivorous birds to infested leaves [55].

A decision by Burbank City Council members last year to not remove a row of trees despite concerns the foliage would damage a new multi-million stadium at Burroughs High School has caught up with them.

Although, according to studies on spruce and poplar foliage, tissue damage increases as epicuticular waxes are removed [ 62- 64].

If the application rate is insufficient to adequately cover all of the foliage, then damage can occur on plant parts that are not adequately wetted.

A prevailing view had been that trees with foliage heavily damaged by leaf miner predation would have a reduced capacity to convert sunlight into the energy it needed for new growth in the coming year.

He was told that the project would remove "undesirable species" from the foliage without damaging the rest of the terrain.

For biotic treatments, two larvae of tea geometrids (Ectropis obliqua Prout) starved for 24 h were placed on the foliage for feeding damage, and the damaged leaves were harvested after 6, 12, 24, 48, 72 and 96 hours.