Sentence examples for maintaining forest structure from inspiring English sources

The flying fox plays a disproportionally large ecological role in maintaining forest structure and biodiversity in the long-term.

Projects included planting trees, building flood barriers, fighting forest fires, and maintaining forest roads and trails.

Tree species richness is vital for maintaining forest productivity.

We demonstrate a role of vertebrate frugivores in building and maintaining forest seedbanks.

Most other treatments maintained mature forest structure or stands that vacillated between mature and borderline old-growth conditions.

Fragments of this size largely fail as remnants intended to maintain forest interior conditions and late-successional forest structure.

Recommendations for land managers and conservation agencies to maintain a high bird species richness and diversity include: (1) preserve both large and small forest patches, (2) limit urban development near forest patches, (3) manage forest patch structure to maintain vertical heterogeneity, and (4) maintain forest patches with different vegetation types.

By reference to landscape ecology, conservation biology, forest ecology, and ecosystem-based management, this paper sets out requirements for a forest management regime that maintains forest capital intact and for determining a rate of cut that would likely maintain ecosystem structure and function.

The fire does not have a direct effect on the xylobiont beetles community at small scale; however, fire has an indirect effect by maintaining a relatively open forest structure.

If we decide that maintaining a fire-resistant forest structure through fuel reduction is an appropriate strategy to promote stable (but not maximal) forest carbon storage, identifying a carbon carrying capacity appropriate for the forest in question will be an important task [24].

If we decide that maintaining a fire-resistant forest structure through fuel reduction is an appropriate strategy to promote stable (but not maximal) forest carbon storage, identifying a carbon carrying capacity appropriate for the forest in question will be an important task [ 24].