Sentence examples for shrub structure from inspiring English sources

Initially, fire physically altered shrub structure as measured by ramet height and stems per ramet.

Beetle movement was affected by shrubs' shading suggesting dependency on shrub structure rather than speciesdependency.

However, the initial structural change was only temporary as the trend indicated that as time elapses past four years, physical shrub structure becomes similar to unburned pastures, similar to Artemisia filifolia (sand sagebrush) (Winter et al. [2011]).

Here we systematically investigated the variability of throughfall of two morphological distinct xerophytic shrubs (Caragana korshinskii and Artemisia ordosica) within a re-vegetated arid desert ecosystem, and evaluated the effects of shrub structure and rainfall characteristics on throughfall based on heavily gauged throughfall measurements at the event scale.

Buffel grass typically alters the shrub understory structure and, if left unmanaged, can create dense physical barriers that extend over areas that are large enough to prevent the effective migration and immigration of smaller animals (Eyre et al. 2009; Smyth et al. 2009).

Although subtle effects were found for some palatable shrubs, sheep did not strongly modify shrub composition or structure at landscape scales.

We sampled herbaceous, shrub and tree structure and herbaceous plant composition across edges of holm oak woodlands with known recent contact with fire.

This study demonstrates that conifer removal projects designed to retain shrub cover and structure can have benefits to multiple species of ground and shrub nesting birds, including several species of conservation concern.

Our study shows that, for the study system, plant recruitment kernels are chiefly determined by the disperserś patterns of space utilization (i.e. the lizardś home-ranges and displacement kernels), the position of the various plant individuals in relation to such patterns, and habitat structure (shrub cover vs. bare soil).

In dicotyledonous and coniferous (i.e., woody) trees and shrubs, the defining structure that permits this conversion is a layer of meristematic cells, called the vascular cambium, that organizes between the primary xylem and primary phloem of the vascular cylinders.

To explore the similarity in vegetation structure of shrub communities under the same temperate climate but with different microhabitats, 36, 28 and 13 sampling plots in Ephedra distachya, Seriphidium terrae-albae and Artemisia songarica communities were selected respectively, during the course of three seasons (early spring, summer, autumn) in Gurbantunggut Desert, north-western China.