Sentence examples for more complex landscapes from inspiring English sources

More complex landscapes contained greater gamma diversity of exotic perennials in fencerows, and of exotic and native annuals within fields.

Cropping system had the largest effect on larval and pupal abundance in more complex landscapes, whereas it affected egg parasitism most strongly in the simplest landscapes.

Increased field width resulted in less damage to soybean plants from herbivores; but in contrast, aphid numbers were greatest in more complex landscapes where fields were generally narrower.

Average level of pest control was 46% lower in homogeneous landscapes dominated by cultivated land, as compared with more complex landscapes.

In more complex landscapes the local effect of hedge length levelled off because bird richness was high even without local hedges.

The patterns observed may be explained by both overwintering in arable soils in less complex landscapes and delayed colonisation in more complex landscapes.

Other domains – epigenetics, cell metabolism – appeared that generated a more complex landscape of tumor physiopathology.

Therefore, the higher number of butterfly species recorded in the irrigated farmland could be due to a more complex landscape.

Compared to a 'dichotomous' disturbance regime of small gap dynamics with infrequent severe disturbance, the historic natural disturbance regime of periodic low- and moderate-severity disturbances produced a more complex landscape mosaic similar to the current landscape.

However, with the discovery of genetically distinct and phylogenetically divergent lineages of hantaviruses in multiple species of shrews, moles, and insectivorous bats from widely separated geographic regions, a far more complex landscape of hantavirus host distribution, evolution, and phylogeography is emerging.

While the world remains in many ways at best semi-globalized (Ghemawat 2003), it is nonetheless a much more complex landscape today than even 20 years ago.