Sentence examples for forest monocultures from inspiring English sources

The landscape in boreal Sweden is dominated by even-aged, single-layered forest monocultures and clear cuts.

It must be the right tree in the proper place -- no single-species urban forest monocultures that are prone to attacks like Dutch elm disease or the insect assault that has killed 30,000 eucalyptus trees in Los Angeles in the last 18 months.

Mature forest monoculture also supports a low abundance of small mammals in Norway (Panzacchi et al. 2010).

We determined that the replacement of the current forest plantations' monocultures to a multifunctional landscape reinforces food security and enhances biodiversity and essential ES.

We studied litterfall over two years and seasonal litter nutrient input over one year across a tropical disturbance gradient from mature forest to monoculture tea plantation.

Additionally, the concept of using arable land to grow plants solely as substrate resources for biotechnological processes is a matter of controversial debate, not only in view of substituting natural biotopes (e.g., rain forests) by monocultures [29], but also in view of reasonable conflicts with nutritional issues and the food production industry [30, 31].

In order to support the sustainable production of agricultural products and address the environmental problems caused by the conversion of forest to monoculture plantations, there is a need to set up another policy instrument to govern the benefit distribution from the agricultural sector, particularly oil palm.

Bonner, M. T. L., Schmidt, S. & Shoo, L. P. A meta-analytical global comparison of aboveground biomass accumulation between tropical secondary forests and monoculture plantations.

Unlike other Southeast Asian nations, Burma also has not experienced the widespread conversion of primary forests to monoculture plantations of rubber, palm, and eucalyptus.

Secondary forests and monoculture plantations are widespread in the tropics and are the two most common forms of reforestation.

We used a meta-analytical approach to evaluate relative rates of aboveground growth (biomass accumulation) in secondary forests and monoculture plantations, controlling for climate and site characteristics.