Sentence examples for plantation scale from inspiring English sources

We show, in particular, the opportunity for managing stand structure as a means of enhancing ground flora diversity and composition at the plantation scale.

At the plantation scale, flowering was discontinuous across the harvest cycle as it was totally absent in the year immediately following harvest.

Even though the fertilized area represents 9.4% of the plantation area only, the impact of fertilizer application at the plantation scale on CO2 fluxes was noteworthy when compared to non-fertilized control treatments.

While the impact of poplar Populus sp. plantations on biodiversity is relatively well-known at the landscape scale, the impact of alternative management practices at the plantation scale has received much less attention.

At the plantation scale, we advocate stopping understory removal as soon as possible and maintaining old trees and hedgerows alongside or within plantations to provide suitable breeding habitats for bird species that may be foraging in the plantations.

For example, sugar is costly to establish, and thus is economically most efficient at large plantation scales.

Though agricultural production has been geared largely toward industrial export and plantation-scale production over the last century and a half — entire crops of bananas, pineapple, macadamia nuts and sugar cane were shipped overseas, while almost everything else had to be flown in from the mainland — that mindset is shifting.

Whichever way you slice it, there are thousands of large, plantation-scale corn factories dotting the American landscape, family-owned or not.

A related issue is the relationship between large-scale and small-scale plantation forestry where the latter are generally viewed more positively (Schirmer 2007).

In a region of complex change, increases in transitory grassland and shrubland covers were caused by large-scale intensive plantation silviculture and small-scale activities including mining reclamation.

These results suggested that RFRK was a promising approach in predicting spatial distribution of SOM for rubber plantation at regional scale.