Sentence examples for former vegetation from inspiring English sources

Stepwise changes in former vegetation can also be interpreted from paleosols.

Fruiting peaks were significantly more often reported during the rainy season both in rainforests and cerrado woodlands, which is at odds with the relatively aseasonal character of the former vegetation type.

There are also several biotic limitations to fen meadow restoration, due to limited propagule availability of target species and the legacy of the former vegetation in form of its soil seed bank and high seed production by unwanted species.

Contrasting spatial distributions of the two kinds of plant scars indicate that vegetation on alluvial fans has progressively contracted from a more diffuse, former vegetation cover, yielding the wide, barren pavement surfaces present today.

Well-dated, long-term and high-temporal resolution reconstructions of former vegetation composition can also show how, and under what ecological and environmental conditions, a species manages to invade and establish, and can determine the subsequent speed and spatial extent of spread (Gillson et al. 2008).

Under algae and other vegetation.

Despite the low level of forest cover in the macroregion (27%), just 52% of the area of agricultural and urban land is located more than 150 m from forest edges, hedgerows, and remnants of the former natural vegetation.

We record deep environmental change during the third millennium cal BCE, reflected in the substitution of the former mesophytic vegetation by Mediterranean maquis formations dominated by wild olive trees, heathers, mastic and Cistaceae.

The former comprise vegetation structure and composition, landscape topography, prey density and perch availability.

One of the main tasks undertaken during return visits has been netwayaz (cleaning, tidying, weeding): the demarcation of the human presence on the land by cutting down and clearing coconut trees and other overgrown vegetation in the former settlements (Johannessen 2011: 202).

Plant material transfer and sowing seeds of local provenance are used most frequently to recover grassland vegetation in former croplands.