Sentence examples for legacy trees from inspiring English sources

This value probably is related to the structural complexity offered by legacy trees.

The presence of a basal hollow, which only occur in legacy trees, was the feature that appeared to add the greatest habitat value to legacy trees and, therefore, to commercial forest stands.

In commercial forests, large and old trees sometimes exist only as widely-dispersed residual or legacy trees.

Legacy trees are old trees that have been spared during harvest or have survived stand-replacing natural disturbances.

Residual live trees ("legacy trees") provide mature forest habitat, increase structural diversity, and provide continuity in the regenerating stand.

The diversity and richness of wildlife species recorded at legacy trees was significantly greater than at control trees (Shannon index=2.81 versus 2.32; species=38 versus 24, respectively).

This time four years ago, Lord Coe was planting a "legacy" tree at Kew Gardens, in unremitting rain and fog, while the Red Arrows made a damp flypast over a set of Olympic Rings made of pansies.

We found no statistical differences between legacy and control trees in the numbers of small mammals captured or in the number of species photographed using remote cameras.

Legacy old-growth trees containing basal hollows were equipped with 'guano traps'; monthly guano weight was used as an index of roosting by bats.

Now, researchers are hoping tree lovers will pay it forward, by helping to preserve the trees' legacy: They are asking scientists and students to collect tree ring data from these handsome, long-lived evergreens before they succumb to a rapidly invading insect and climate change.

This raises the importance of other landscape elements and biological legacies, such as trees on hedges and homesteads to support restoration as seed sources.