Sentence examples for foliage mass from inspiring English sources

Though grazing pressure was much greater in Bolivia, the foliage mass fraction was there larger than in Argentina.

The model efficiency was lower for growth or smaller components such as foliage mass and root mass.

Martin Brandt et al. studied foliage mass from Senegal over 30 years, observing the effects of climate change on dryland vegetation.

The mistletoes had a foliage mass roughly matching by visual judgement the foliage mass on the terminal part of the host branch.

Leaf size and foliage mass of spruce were increased by +CO2 on both soil types, but those of beech by +ND on the calcareous soil only.

At the end of the experiment, trees were harvested and the total foliage mass of current- (beech and spruce), previous-year and older foliage fractions (spruce) was determined.

Fragonard's fondness for depicting the play of sunlight against and through trees is wonderfully evident in a Dutch-inspired landscape, "Shepherd Boy and Sheep on a Sunny Hillside," in which the incredibly detailed but gauzy rendering of foliage massed to the right and center of the canvas inflect a light-filled scene, à la Jacob van Ruisdael, that conveys the essence of a summer day.

In both species, increases in light availability resulted in larger net assimilation rate (NAR, total plant biomass production rate per unit leaf area), root mass fraction (FR) and leaf mass per unit area (MA), but reductions in leaf area ratio (LAR, foliage area per total plant dry mass), stem mass fraction (FS) and leaf mass fraction (FL).

Most foliage properties showed more variability within and between canopies when expressed on a leaf area basis than on a leaf mass basis, although the reverse was true for chlorophyll.

Leaf mass per area also declined through time for both treatments, and was always greater for eCO2 foliage.

In contrast to the dry leaf mass and area (<8 % difference among the origins) and related to initial seedling age, the total foliage dry mass by the end of experiment showed a doubled biomass of Her and Sih compared with Aar and Hir on the nutrient-rich calcareous soil (Fig.  1C, Table  1).