Sentence examples for forest degraded from inspiring English sources

A more general approach discussed for tropical forests and proposed from a monitoring perspective by the Joint Research Centre [16] forms three classes: forest, degraded forest, non-forest.

Contrary to predictions, cavity persistence did not vary across habitats (primary forest, degraded forest, farm) or excavator types (true woodpecker vs. weak excavator).

Unsustainable forestry practices, such as selective logging on an all too frequent basis, or high intensity logging, can induce a cycle of long-term reduction in canopy cover and biomass, ultimately rendering the forest degraded [66].

To evaluate the effect of land use change on soil organic carbon, the carbon contents and stocks of primary forest, degraded pasture, and four improved pasture systems in Colombian Amazonia were compared in a flat and a sloping landscape.

Forest degraded by logging has the lowest diversity of relatively common medicinal plants.

Regrowth forest was found to have a more diverse medicinal flora than forest degraded by logging.

There are billions of hectares of abandoned landscapes across the world: logged forests, degraded pastures, poisoned wasteland and places where farmers simply gave up and walked away.

Though clearly not equivalent to protected forests, degraded forests and agroforests in buffer areas still hold some conservation value, with forest species found particularly in mixed-species flocks in these human-modified habitats.

Every Day, the World Loses 100,000+ Acres of Forests -- Canada, Russia, Brazil Lead World In Old-Growth Forest Loss and new maps show these last vestiges are disappearing quickly, with 250+ million acres of forests degraded since 2000, reports Morgan Erikson-Davis at Mongabay.

In particular, old-growth forests had a higher diversity of medicinal plants compared to forests degraded by logging.

Here we ask how forest transformation influences the diversity and composition of medicinal plants in northwestern Pakistan, where we studied old-growth forests, forests degraded by logging, and regrowth forests.