Sentence examples for function of stand from inspiring English sources

In addition, the vigor of vegetation regrowth post-fire is impacted by both midstory and overstory stand-conditions which can be a function of stand age.

The pine stands also showed considerable spatial variability in GPP (426 1320 g cm−2 yr−1) and ET (234 570 mm yr−1) but this occurred mainly as a function of stand age and the understory species compositions.

We studied protected old-growth Norway spruce (Picea abies L). stands in the Bohemian Forest, Czech Republic, to explore total ecosystem C pool (live and dead biomass and soil) variability in forest ecosystem as a function of stand age and elevation.

BEFs are either constant or a function of stand development and exist for many species of temperate forest, e.g. [43, 44].

Several growth and yield simulators are driven by a model that predicts dominant height as a function of stand age and site index (e.g., Shater et al. 2011; Guzmán et al. 2012).

Regression models were then fitted to predict outerwood density as a function of stand age and mean annual temperature (MAT) which proved to be the best overall climate variable.

The number of native bird species recorded per survey per site increased as a linear function of stand-age.

Rates of bird population growth within forest compartments and rates of bird dispersal among compartments were functions of stand age and basal area, compartment population size, and inter-compartment distance.

Stand characteristics and live tree biomass C stocks as functions of stand age were calculated with a common Mitscherlich function (Fukuda et al., 2003) by using SAS version 9.2 as follows: Living tree biomass C or stand characteristics = m 1 × 1 – m 2 × exp - m 3 × stand age (4).

The optimal density after thinning was assessed by expressing mean tree spacing as a function of main stand attributes like stand height and stand dbh.

However, at stand ages above 20 years little decline from 15% was observed (Figure 5). Figure 5 Partial response functions showing variation in percentage ground returns as a function of (a) stand age, (b) non-crop stand density, (c) crop stand density and (d) slope.