Sentence examples for plant layer from inspiring English sources

The highest plant layer, or tree canopy, extends to heights between 30 and 50 metres.

Warm temperatures, high humidity, and often misty conditions encourage the development of a mossy, moisture-loving plant layer under the giant trees of Sitka spruce, western red cedar, western hemlock, Douglas fir, and coast redwood.

The model consists of two parts: the heat balance of the plant layer and substrate surface, and the conduction of heat through the interface of the substrate bottom.

This chapter examines the plant layer as a sustainable material and assesses its effects on facade thermal properties and energy consumption.

Species richness, plant cover, plant layer density and plant diversity were significantly lower at Fire Point than at the reference sites, possibly due to long-term fire exclusion, but the fire did not increase the rate of change in these variables after 2 years.

Overall, results herein show that a plant layer added to the facade can improve its effective thermal resistance by 0.0 0.7 m2 K/W, depending on a range of inputs for wall parameters, climate zones, and plant characteristics (particularly leaf area index).

Hart intended the forest garden - so called because it replicated the plant layers of a forest - to be a "comprehensive answer to two closely related problems: large-scale degradation of the natural environment and the colossal toll of avoidable ill-health".

Features of the outermost plant layers, which act as the physical and chemical barriers, as well as active structural reorganization of the plant cell wall will be reviewed in this article in relation to the fungal pathogen weaponry and strategies aimed at breaking through the plant defense.

Perhaps more determinative, O. novo-ulmi gains direct access to the elm vascular system through its vector and it therefore does not have to penetrate outer plant layers (bark, epidermis, etc)., unlike other vascular pathogens such as Fusarium oxysporum and Verticillium dahliae.

Cut up the remaining inner papyrus plant layers (pith) into thin strips.

Nitrogen would be released from the systems (e.g., the average RRTN was −178.0%) when peat soil was mixed in the planting layer at a ratio of 20%.