Sentence examples for native canopy from inspiring English sources

Exotic canopy species increased with the level of urbanization while native canopy and understory species declined.

A positive relationship was found between the extent of native canopy cover in the surrounding landscape and frog species richness, and the occurrence of Litoria peronii and Uperoleia laevigata at farm dams.

We found that urban riparian areas can harbor a high diversity of native canopy and shrub species (38 and 41, respectively); however, native and exotic woody plant species responded differently to urbanization.

The ecosystem remains novel due to its component parts and underlying environmental changes (e.g., high soil nutrient levels), but it has historical echoes through the use of native canopy species that we chose based on an expectation that they would be somewhat adapted to the environmental conditions of the site.

In Camamu-Maraú County, State of Bahia, Brazil, farmers grow C. brasiliensis and Theobroma cacao L. (cocoa) in the shade of native canopy tree species.

In 2012, Remote Sensing specialists Sarah Hamylton and Holly East described the former plantations of the eastern sector of Diego Garcia as 'mixed forests' that had 'retained a highly diverse proportion of native canopy trees' (Hamylton and East 2012: 3457).

We found a total of 103 ant species associated with epiphytic bromeliads, with 83% of the species occurring in native forest canopy bromeliads also occurring in cocoa AFSs.

Five native forest canopy types were used, Populus tremuloides (quaking aspen), Acer saccharum (sugar maple), Quercus spp./Carya spp. (oak/hickory), Fraxinus americana (white ash), evergreen species mix Pinus spp./Tsuga canadensis (pine/hemlock), along with one nonnative canopy species, Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust).

In locations where hemlock mortality has occurred, management agencies should investigate opportunities to encourage the establishment of native hardwood canopy species, particularly in locations with dense rhododendron, in order to help establish an intact riparian vegetation cover to replace hemlock.

Likely explanations are that a rare time window of low seed and seedling predation allowed seedlings to establish, and the shallow soil depth at this particular site limited the growth of the native forest canopy to a height attainable by the characteristically short-statured C. mollissima.

In this manner, agroforestry using diverse native tree canopies could be successfully integrated into a landscape scale conservation plan for the East Usambaras.