Sentence examples for lifespan of tree from inspiring English sources

Therefore, brood desertion entails zero reproductive success for a given year, potentially reducing lifetime reproductive success (average lifespan of tree swallows 2.7 years; [ 41]), and contributing to local population decline [ 42].

An interim report in December noted: "Electoral timescales don't match the lifespan of trees".

Nevertheless, the lifespan of trees is limited more often by incidental disease or structural damage than by genetic aging.

Low pH and high Al are the factors contributing to poor Citrus growth and shortened lifespan of trees [ 18].

Because the long lifespan of tropical trees [31], hypotheses addressing disruptions of functional diversity driven by changes in tree composition can be properly tested in landscapes that were disturbed long enough ago to permit demographic shifts to have occurred, such as fragmented landscapes with longer histories of human occupation.

There is a disconnect between the human timescale and that of the forests, as 40 years is a fraction of the natural lifespan of these trees.

A positive effect of K fertilization on the leaf lifespan of field-grown almond tree was also reported [ 40].

This approach assumes that subpopulations are panmictic, that population structure, growth, immigration and recombination rates have remained constant throughout the lifespan of the underlying coalescent tree [ 104].

This oversight arises not only from the misinterpretation of habitat fragmentation as a static phenomenon rather than a dynamic process [40], but also from not considering the exceptionally long lifespan of many old-growth tropical trees (several centuries in some cases [41]).

However, the relationship between total biomass and the biomass of the leaves (and thus the transpiring and intercepting leaf area) varies between growth forms and over the lifespan of a plant, especially in trees.

Bark consumption was less in the low frequency tapping systems leading to the possibility of lengthening the economic lifespan of the tapping panels of the tree.