Sentence examples for increasing forest size from inspiring English sources

Typically, the cost per hectare decreases with increasing forest size and connectivity.

This pattern is explained by the different behaviour of structural canopy properties, since leaf area index and canopy cover showed a steeper increase with increasing forest patch size in Fagus forests than in Pinus ones.

The first axis represented a landscape gradient from agricultural to woodland, with increasing forest patch size and edge habitat and decreasing degree of fragmentation.

Regardless, the finding of increased richness with increased forest size confirms prior observations in related diversity studies.

Increasing forest cover promoted species richness and size of flocks, with particularly strong associations in successional habitats and shade coffee.

As long as the forest rent is increasing forest stands are thinned but not finally cut.

Warming will increase forest fires by 30-40%.

Therefore, the climatic variables that increase forest woody detritus production also increase forest detritus decay.

Avoiding placing plantations near large forests, increasing the size of small patches, and where afforestation is unavoidable, placing plantations in the vicinity of small rather than large forest patches, are preferable management practices.

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that global warming is the main culprit increasing the size of forest fires in the western US: We demonstrate that human-caused climate change caused over half of the documented increases in fuel aridity since the 1970s and doubled the cumulative forest fire area since 1984.

Increasing the size of provincial forests or protected areas, or restoring forest cover adjacent to them, would serve to expand the size of large forest patches.