Sentence examples for rainforest landscape from inspiring English sources

Later, Australian naturalist Brad took us out for a well-informed buzz around the mangroves, set against a much lusher rainforest landscape than before, with green vines tumbling down over figs and eucalypts to the water's edge.

Our results indicate that second-growth forests, while not as structurally developed as old-growth, are developing some ecologically important structural characteristics at relatively young ages (80 100 years) and as such, contribute towards ecological integrity and biodiversity of the coastal temperate rainforest landscape.

Between the early and the mid Holocene (ca. 8.3 5.0 kyr BP), land use practices seem to have been more linked to shifting agriculture in a rainforest landscape – as is usual in Amazon cultures – with medium fire incidence affecting only local forest spots or surrounding savannas.

It includes the Forest of Uco, a lush rainforest landscape that surrounds visitors along a 1 mile walking trail and includes reproductions of a South American mercado and a scientific expedition and ruins, and highlights several tropical animals including the Andean bear.

By inhabiting rainforest landscapes, for elephants are much more difficult to survey or study.

Understory insectivorous birds often disappear from fragmented tropical rainforest landscapes before mechanisms such as increased rate of nest depredation can be evaluated.

These results suggest that patches sized 3.5 ha or larger may provide habitat capable of sustaining a diverse array of bryophyte functional groups in temperate rainforest landscapes.

We compiled a list of these consequences from the literature, and used them to assess plantation scenarios proposed for cleared rainforest landscapes in tropical and subtropical Australia.

The three scenarios based on plantations of rainforest trees have similar, moderately positive consequences for biodiversity, while a mosaic of plantations and restoration plantings has the most positive consequences for biodiversity in cleared rainforest landscapes.

We investigated how the species richness of different functional groups of tropical rainforest birds varied in remnant rainforest patches embedded in two matrix types (mining vs. agricultural) at two distances to forest edge in fragmented Upper Guinean rainforest landscapes of southwest Ghana.

Of these scenarios, plantations of eucalypts and exotic pines have the least positive consequences for biodiversity: they have little or no intrinsic value in rainforest landscapes, provide poor quality habitat for rainforest biota, and (particularly eucalypts) are characterised by a relatively open canopy which in cleared landscapes favours the recruitment of grasses and other weeds.