Sentence examples for forested ecosystem from inspiring English sources

Dead organic matter in a forested ecosystem refers to non-living biomass including deadwood, litter, and root necromass (dead roots).

The sub-Antarctic biome of South America is the world's southernmost forested ecosystem and one of the last remaining wilderness areas on the planet.

Our basic assumption is that the forested ecosystem and disturbance regimes can be modelled on 3 hierarchical scales (levels): individual trees, forest stand (or patch, defined as a spatial unit about 0.5 1 ha of the same forest at one successional stage).

Forests returned after the fire, but the US Forest Service also planted lodgepole pine trees, which are not normally very abundant at this elevation in this region, to speed the development of a forested ecosystem [39].

An increase in fire frequency, with a number of contiguous fires occurring with intervals <150 years would clearly threaten the Pinus cembra cover and would probably result in overcoming the resilience threshold of the present forested ecosystem, and so promote the development of herbs and shrubs.

However, it is worth noting that the site was originally a forested ecosystem prior to human induced fire starting with Māoris after the 13th century and increasing with Europeans in the 19th century.

Maintenance of genetic diversity in reforestation stock of long-lived tree species such as WWP is key to helping ensure the continued presence of this species in forests and forested ecosystems.

Well-established remote sensing methods capture change over forested ecosystems, however the return of forest vegetation in disturbed locations is infrequently documented and not well understood.

In forested ecosystems, management decisions are driven by variables such as forest composition, forest structure (both vertical and horizontal), and other ancillary data (i.e., topography, soils, slope, aspect, and disturbance regime dynamics).

Alternative silvicultural approaches to timber management, such as regeneration treatments with different degrees of stand retention, may mitigate negative effects of clear-cutting or shelterwood cuts in forested ecosystems, including changes in old-growth forest bird communities.

This empirical evidence provides insights to forest management and biological conservation across different types of forested ecosystems.