Sentence examples for rate of trees from inspiring English sources

Rubio told me that in the desert regions of Spain where his organization is working, other efforts have resulted in a success rate of ten to twenty per cent; "the cocoon," he said, "is providing around ninety-five per cent survival rate of trees".

And a region's historical temperature also affects the growth rate of trees, as recorded in tree-ring widths, and the kinds of fossil plants and animals found there.

However, since the growth rate of trees decreases when the trees get old and stands become too dense, it may become better to harvest trees to make space for biomass growth.

Firstly, the variable thickness of canopy cover, combined with ground layer obstacles such as fallen trees, rotting stems, and the location of living stems, precludes the even distribution of ash on the forest floor.3 Secondly, various authors have calculated the mean turnover rate of trees within rainforest to range between 40 and 180 years (Hartshorn 1978, 1980).

Consistently, and considering that the rate of trees destroyed by logging decreases with tree size [42], we used a logging damage of 10% for the first three classes, then null: ℓ i =0.1 for i≤3 and ℓ i =0 for i≥4.

It is assumed that grafting of olive trees provided a means to propagate clones which do not root easily, and increased the survival rate of trees, since newly grafted trees required less attention than cuttings [ 12].

"At the current rate of tree clearing, the entire 98.5m tonnes of abatement from tree projects bought in the latest ERF auction will be wiped out in just under two years," said the Wilderness Society national director, Lyndon Schneiders.

Demand for palm oil, used in everything from margarine to shampoo, is blamed for four west African states featuring in a list of 10 countries where the rate of tree loss has accelerated fastest since the millennium.

Cumulative tree mortality was 2.7 3.6%; the annual rate of tree mortality was 0.162% yr−1.

Since then, the rate of tree cutting has fallen 76% from the 10-year average and continues to decline.

Analyzing data through 2011, the study shows that the rate of tree growth has remained flat in the past decade.