Sentence examples for measuring vegetation from inspiring English sources

Measuring biodiversity — especially for mammals — is much more time consuming and expensive than measuring vegetation.

Federal land management agencies are directed to monitor and manage rangelands at landscapes scales, but traditional field methods for measuring vegetation heights are often too costly and time consuming to apply at these broad scales.

Beside measuring vegetation dynamics we investigated the effects of insect exclusion on above- and below-ground plant biomass, below-ground C and N storage by plants, litter quality, decomposition rate, soil water content, soil C N ratio, nutrient availability and soil microbial activity and biomass.

Methods of positioning our plots, measuring vegetation cover, and identifying taxa were described by Marler and del Moral.

We also measured vegetation cover (the forage available to the cattle) during these trials.

We also measured vegetation structure and landscape metrics to investigate the relationship between these factors and mammal richness.

At the mesohabitat scale we measured vegetation types and amount of soil erosion in a square of 90 m×90 m around each study tree.

One year of sheep grazing did not alter measured vegetation components, but it did result in an increase of grass seed in the soil.

We surveyed 43 species of birds and measured vegetation for 1 3 years prior to treatment and 6 7 years post-treatment at 13 locations across Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah.

An alternative remote sensing approach that is potentially more practical for managers is to measure vegetation heights from digital stereo aerial photographs.

The core strength of airborne LiDAR lies in its ability to accurately measure vegetation canopy height remotely, enabling detailed and georeferenced three-dimensional (3D) representations of canopy structure and associated biophysical parameters.