Sentence examples for modifies forest structure from inspiring English sources

While fire shapes the structure of forests and acts as a keystone process, the details of how fire modifies forest structure have been difficult to evaluate because of the complexity of interactions between fires and forests.

Droughts are interacting with forest degradation and fragmentation in positive feedbacks to further modify forest canopy structure and functioning (Laurance and Bruce Williamson 2001) reducing canopy coverage and aboveground biomass (Brando et al. 2014).

Understanding the extent to which secondary forests and modified forest land-uses such as plantation forestry may provide a "safety net" for tropical forest species depends on having a robust understanding of their conservation value [2], [6], [23].

In this study, restoration treatments aimed at approximating historical forest structure and disturbances included modified single-tree selection cutting, with and without prescribed burning.

Fig. 2 Forest structure of two tropical human-modified forest plots and the reference plot.

To assess the importance of the pre- (forest structure, environment and composition) and post- (climate stress) disturbance forest conditions, we simulated different scenarios modifying the covariate values but keeping an averaged (set to 0) disturbance intensity DIST.

With a focus on remote sensing data used in mapping tropical forest structure, we expect this study will help to utilize the existing machine learning algorithms better and modify them appropriately to suit the needs for tropical forest structure retrievals.

Threat(s): Primarily habitat destruction through changed forest structure.

Forest Structure: Another typical step in processing LIDAR data is to examine individual trees and forest structure.

Canopy height of forest stands and forest type were tested as a proxy of forest structure.

Explanatory variables related to forest structure.