Sentence examples for high overstory from inspiring English sources
Fire behaviour outputs revealed that the control of understory shrubs through high overstory basal area can decrease surface fire intensity.
Differences attributable to management were greater in forest plots with higher overstory cover, which was assessed by hemispherical photograph analysis.
The model indicated that ponderosa pine seedling density was highest where (1) mean annual precipitation was highest, (2) average May minimum temperature was highest, (3) overstory stand basal area was lowest and (4) Muhlenbergia spp. were dominant herbaceous plants.
Overall, these simulations indicate that management aimed at reducing canopy fuels in beetle-killed lodgepole pine forests should prioritize stands with high densities of overstory and understory fir and spruce.
Aspen regeneration and recruitment increased with winter precipitation, elevation and higher abundance of overstory aspen.
Tolerant white pine had high survival across all overstory treatments whereas intolerant red and jack pine had lower survival in uncut controls.
Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) saplings were absent from 61% of 154 m2 plots centered in harvest gaps (n = 347) despite its high shade tolerance and overstory dominance, but densities were high in other gaps.
The high-light environment created by shelterwood overstory removal resulted in better initial seedling growth, but the moderate-light of the midstory removal treatment may ultimately provide chestnut seedlings a greater advantage over competing vegetation.
Our simulations predicted that high herbivory influences the abundance of forest overstory structural classes over time in all three disturbance scenarios.
Aspen mortality and overstory dieback have occurred at unusually high levels throughout Colorado and western North America over the past fifteen years.
Paradoxically, midstory maples had a higher survival probability than similarly-sized oaks, while overstory maples had lower survival than overstory oaks.
