Sentence examples for structural and compositional attributes from inspiring English sources

In the current context of forest ecosystem management, partial harvesting has been proposed as a silvicultural tool to augment forest variability on managed landscapes and to accelerate the development of structural and compositional attributes of old-growth/late successional stands.

In this study, we use the term "old-growthness" to refer to the degree of the retention of old-growth structural and compositional attributes in managed stands following Bauhus et al. (2009).

In the present work, our aim was, therefore, to evaluate the impacts of single-tree selection cutting with two different residual basal areas, upon structural and compositional attributes of old-growth temperate rainforests of the evergreen forest type.

These results suggest that single-tree selection cutting, if adjusted to retain a certain number of large-sized and emergent trees, can serve as a possible means to preserve many old-growth structural and compositional attributes of the evergreen forest type in managed stands while harvesting timber for the landowners.

The biodiversity associated with the structural and compositional attributes of these old-growth forests must not only be maintained in reserves (Moorman et al. 2013; Bauhus et al. 2009) but also in managed forests, combining the needs of the local population for forest products with biodiversity conservation (Moorman et al. 2013).

Old-growth forests are defined here through the presence of key structural and compositional attributes including a high number of large trees, a wide range of tree sizes, complex vertical layering, the presence of late successional tree species and large amounts of standing and lying dead wood among others (Bauhus et al. 2009; Mosseler et al. 2003).

Textural and compositional attributes are wide ranging.

The superior performance of the hybrid nanostructure is mainly attributed to its structural and compositional design which favors the electrochemical activity.

Such changes were attributed to the structural and compositional modifications of the growing film as a result of the bombarding ions.

These synthesized intermetallic nanoparticles were found to exhibit a higher activity and stability for electrocatalysis of the ethanol oxidation reaction in an alkaline media than has been achieved using a traditional Pd/C catalyst, which could be attributed to the structural and compositional stabilities of ordered Pd2Sn intermetallic nanoparticles.

This was attributed to the structural and compositional differences in the interfacial layer of sodium titanates (Wang et al. 2008c).