Sentence examples for overstory from inspiring English sources

The amount of increase in water yield depends on annual precipitation as well as the type and amount of overstory vegetation removed.

In many instances temporary protection from fire has resulted in the accumulation of a large mass of flammable vegetation that, when burning, makes a hot fire, which kills the overstory trees and many species that normally survived the more frequent and less-severe fires of the past.

As wind and age topple the massive oaks, hickories and poplars that make up the canopy, or overstory, no young trees survive to replace them.

"The overstory trees that you have now won't be there.