Sentence examples for selective harvesting from inspiring English sources
Small areas of selectively cut forests were also present, with selective harvesting of single trees and irregular forest use.
The selective harvesting was repeated again when 50% of the randomly selected fish were mature.
AGROVOC is deployed to provide the basis for selective harvesting.
She said that smaller yields were the result of selective harvesting methods ushered in after a 1994 European Union ban on industrial-scale coral dredging.
Not only does the overall gene pool improve, but periodic selective harvesting creates openings in the forest canopy, increasing habitat diversity as it releases understory trees.
Harvesting all trees above a certain size, known as a diameter-limit cut, has been called "selective harvesting" by unscrupulous loggers (and even the occasional forester).
There is now mounting evidence that artificial selection such as size-selective harvesting reduces the average viability in some populations (Fenberg and Roy 2008).
Finally, small-selected fish did not perform well when random harvesting (with respect to body size) or dome-shaped size-selective harvesting (representing large-selection with a harvest slot-length limit) was operating (Table 5, Supporting Information S7; Fig. S3).
The weak response of juvenile growth rate of small-selected fish after five generations of size-selective harvesting is in contrast to a groundbreaking experimental study on harvest-induced selection in Atlantic silversides by Conover and Munch (2002), who reported a steep decline in (juvenile) growth rate after four generations of size-selective harvesting.
We assessed a range of life-history, physiological, and behavioral traits expected to change in response to size selection after five generations of size-selective harvesting.
To study the growth differences among the selection lines after five generations of size-selective harvesting, we used replicate boxes (each stocked with 10 fish) for each of the experimental populations and their replicate lines (altogether 48 rearing boxes).
