Sentence examples for gradient of disturbance from inspiring English sources

As urbanization often produces a local gradient of disturbance, one can also observe a gradient of homogenization.

The 45 leaf litter and soil samples were equally distributed over three forest areas, which were differently affected by a wind throw 12 years prior to sampling representing a natural gradient of disturbance.

We established 109 0.04 ha plots across a gradient of disturbance grouped into three classes, control (considered to represent pre-disturbance conditions using a space-for-time substitution), light, and moderate categories, to examine the effect of the intermediate-scale wind disturbance.

Based on data collected from an experimental burn project in central interior British Columbia, Canada, we investigate variation in understory plant communities along a gradient of disturbance that includes MPB-only and red-phase MPB + fire across three levels of fire severity.

We use morphological and behavioural traits to calculate a variety of functional diversity measures across a gradient of disturbance from primary forest through intensively logged forest to oil palm.

Above-ground biomass was larger around ridges but smaller near valleys, coinciding with an assumable gradient of disturbance intensity from weak on ridges to strong in valleys, which is a pattern that has been reported previously in East Asia (e.g. Sakai and Ohsawa 1994; Enoki 2003; Chang et al. 2012).

In this work the responses of the Rove Beetles to gradients of disturbance in representative ecosystems of the Brazilian Amazon were evaluated.

Previous research has shown that post-fire regeneration patterns may be highly temporally and spatially variable along gradients of disturbance severity, species characteristics, climate, microsite conditions, and competitive factors [30 34].

Adding to the interdisciplinary challenge of understanding complex biogeomorphic systems is that environmental heterogeneity and overlapping gradients of disturbance complicate inference of the geographic patterns of resistance and resilience.

While protection from disturbance is likely to mitigate climate change impacts on forest canopy attributes relevant for forest productivity, our understanding of disturbance-climate-canopy relationships is limited by a lack of canopy structure data along gradients of disturbance within the context of the regional climate.

To disentangle the compound impacts of climate and disturbance on tropical forest canopies at large spatial scales and identify possible pathways creating observed pattern we will need to increase our sampling efforts to cover gradients of disturbance within the context of the regional climate, and in particular increase the number of locations sampled in South America and South-East Asia.