Sentence examples for healthy stands from inspiring English sources

Damaged stands also had more standing dead adult trees (37%) than in healthy stands (16%).

Maintaining healthy stands of mangroves in Asia through careful management, for example, has proved to cost only one-seventh of what it would cost to erect manmade coastal defenses against storms, waves and tidal surges.

We used the fire behavior modeling program BehavePlus to compare potential fire behavior between diseased and healthy stands.

Since no differences were detected in density of regeneration between damaged or healthy stands, we conclude that most stands will persist upon the landscape for the foreseeable future.

Healthy stands were rarely observed in the most drought prone locations, though the inverse was not necessarily true; healthy and unhealthy stands were found in more mesic settings.

Adult aspen in damaged stands occurred at lower densities, and had thinner crowns (41% dead crown, compared to 16% in healthy stands).

Further, we note that although observed densities of regeneration in damaged stands are not as great as levels observed following complete stand removal, suckering does occur, and stems are measurably healthier than regeneration in healthy stands.

On the other hand, it shows little susceptibility to increases in fire interval: although senescence and death are often observed in plants older than about 30 years, healthy stands have been observed that have escaped fire for 50 years.

The presence of healthy stands of A. cervicornis on five reefs sites was a particularly noteworthy aspect of the study.

A healthy stand of lavender covers the gangly legs of several pale peachleaf bellflowers.

The sanctuary, which Palauan President Thomas Remengesau Jr announced at the United Nations last month, would also sit inside the world's last healthy stand of lucrative, tasty tuna.