Sentence examples for forest crown from inspiring English sources

Later, all forested grids were further classified into three forest crown density classes of 10 40%, 40 70% and > 70%.

The result showed that the forest crown density changed notably in 2000 compared with that of the prefire, and all the variables significantly affected the forest crown density.

The most important affecting variable was elevation, which was positively correlated with the forest crown density.

The effects of topographic factors and silviculture practices on forest crown density were relatively small.

The areas under all forest crown density classes were found to have increased during the periods of 2002 09 and 2009 12 in both the CF and non-CF areas, signifying a net positive growth of forests in the watershed (Table 1).

In order to reveal how the forest changed in 2000 13 yearss after the fire) by comparing with 1987 (prefire) and to find out the relationship between the forest succession and the affecting factors, forest crown density was selected as the criterion, and forest type, fire severity, silviculture practice, elevation and topography gradients were designed as the affecting variables.

It kills biodiversity and erodes the soil," he says, pointing up to the cap of rich green forest crowning the highest peaks.

The shape of these plots is usually circular or rectangular and the attributes measured on the plot can be either a sum of discrete objects (e.g. number of trees and the sum of their volume) or some measure of a continuous attribute (e.g. proportion of the plot covering forest, percent crown cover, and length of boundaries).

It largely ended in 1984 with a government decision to halt harvesting in almost all indigenous forests in Crown tenure.

The lush forests of Crown Point, Oregon and the snow-dusted peaks of Crystal Mountain, Washington.

In contrast, forestpractitioners, with the responsibility for managing public forests in Ontario,operate under the Crown Forest Sustainability Act (1994) [33] that includes requirements for public consultation and recognizes thenecessity for both economic and ecological sustainability.