Sentence examples for forest overstory from inspiring English sources

We analyzed this index against 33 landscape variables of forest overstory, land cover, terrain, climate, and human influence.

Our simulations predicted that high herbivory influences the abundance of forest overstory structural classes over time in all three disturbance scenarios.

Understanding the relationships between forest overstory and the understory shrub layer is important for predicting biomass changes in response to forest management.

Within each sampled stand, we recorded tree seedlings, forest overstory, shrub cover, and abiotic factors hypothesized to influence growth and establishment.

Scientists have hypothesized that returning wolves to the landscape enables aspen to recruit into the forest overstory, via the density-mediated and behaviorally-mediated effects of wolves on their ungulate prey, primarily elk (Cervus elaphus).

Because understory herbaceous cover and woody densities were strongly negatively related to overstory canopy cover in LNF, management aimed at decreasing forest overstory to increase woody and herbaceous understories (forage quantity), preferably in conjunction with prescribed burns (to increase forage quality), could have strong effects in altering herbivore use of LNF landscapes.

As Tasmania's wet forests transition from mixed forest (eucalypt overstory with a rainforest understory) to rainforest they can be expected to lose more than half their total (live + dead, standing + downed) bole wood volume and biomass.

We examined this variation by exploring the relationships between overstory forest vegetation attributes, recent fire history, and selected surface fuel components across an 80,000 ha contiguous landscape.

Younger forests had higher earthworm populations compared to older forests despite similar overstory tree composition, highlighting the importance of local conditions and land-use histories.

Male fishers exhibited only weak selection for core areas dominated by forests with an overstory of small trees, primarily on land managed for timber production or at high elevations.

Fifteen of 19 females (79%) and 5 of 12 males (42%) selected core areas within federal lands that encompassed primarily forests with an overstory of mid-sized or large trees.