Sentence examples for return intervals from inspiring English sources

Larger openings tend to have microclimates and return intervals significantly different than smaller treefall gaps.

The model predicted historic mean fire return intervals from TRI and two human population variables.

Fire return intervals were the most frequent of the record, averaging 250 years between burning episodes.

The mean fire return intervals in the panel range from 23 to 137 years.

At the site level, fire return intervals were variable, ranging from 29 to 167 years, but most were <80 years.

Serotinous cones were only recorded at elevations ≤2230 m where fire return intervals are relatively short (<200 years).

Temporal trends suggest increasingly short fire-return intervals in the landscape.

With frequent fire-return intervals, herbaceous plant communities do not shift to dense hardwood understory communities (Glitzenstein et al. 2012).

Frequent fire-return intervals (<3-yr) have been suggested to optimize the benefits of prescribed fire in many fire-dominated ecosystems.

We recommend fire managers incorporate multiple fire-return intervals and firing techniques to capture the ecological benefits of variability in frequency and spatial extents in fire.

These results suggest that applying fire on <3-yr fire-return intervals across large land areas could have negative effects on soft mast-dependent wildlife species.