Sentence examples for maintained by fire from inspiring English sources

To this day the Steele Prairie Preserve is maintained by fire.

This abrupt transition is maintained by fire, which prevents or reverses invasion of the sclerophyllous forest by rainforest plants.

Savannas occupy about one-sixth of global land area and is maintained by fire, yet fire is also a major source of global emissions.

The savanna biome is maintained by fire but, at the same time, fire is also a major source of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Additionally, longleaf pine savannas were historically maintained by fire ignited by natural and anthropogenic sources but today are commonly managed by prescribed fire (Komarek 1964, Pyne 1982, Robbins and Myers 1992).

Our data are consistent with the suggestion that hummock grasslands and mulga shrubland are alternative stable states maintained by fire-soil feedback loops and possibly also by competitive exclusion of pyrophytic species by Acacia aneura.

forests were historically maintained by frequent fire and other disturbances, without which midstory hardwoods create closed canopy conditions limiting value of pine stands for many endemic, disturbance-adapted species.

The simulated scenario illustrates the change in forest composition from the uneven-aged old-growth pine forests maintained by the historical fire regime to the old-growth spruce forests dominating in the absence of fires.

EMS personnel gathered the data, and the database was maintained by the local fire departments.

We found that the prehistoric grass-dominated grassland, likely maintained by frequent anthropogenic fire, extended to the landscape scale, well beyond the confines of Quiroste Valley.

The first model hypothesizes that the representation of the first stimulus is maintained by the sustained firing of stimulus-selective cells through a trace interval (Solomon et al., 1986).