Sentence examples for successional development from inspiring English sources

Colonization and successional development of very diverse subtidal assemblages on rocky surfaces are not clearly understood.

It divides the directional successional development following stand-replacing disturbance (fire) into separate successional stages or seres, which are called structural cohorts (Fig. 4).

The composition of the landscape is a reflection of the balance between the disturbance rate and successional development.

Similar to the seral stages in Clements' theory, successional development of forests has been divided into more or less arbitrarily defined developmental stages (Bormann and Likens 1979; Oliver 1980).

Studies on ecology were mainly concentrated on plant diversity and successional development, while conservation biology related studies were focused on birds.

Belleau et al. (2011) refined the multi-cohort approach further to include the effect of fire severity (i.e. proportion of living plant biomass destroyed) on tree species composition in successional development.

We used both abundance-weighted and unweighted dispersal traits in order to gain a comprehensive picture of successional developments.

SCE is designed to accelerate late-successional stand development; it was compared against two conventional selection systems (single tree and group) and unmanipulated controls.

The concept of cohorts is used to integrate stand age, composition and structure into broad successional or stand development phases.

In late successional forests, stand development processes are often more easily monitored and are more closely related to key ecological parameters when using structural criteria rather than stand age or time since stand-replacing disturbance.

Fig. 2 Illustration of the mosaic cycle concept, where different successional stages of forest development are expressed as a cycle.