Sentence examples for successional forest from inspiring English sources

Fragmented successional forest now covers about half the island.

Moreover, overall multidiversity across trophic levels was positively related (except in young successional forest stands) to multifunctionality.

Creation and management of early successional forest (ESF) is needed to halt and reverse declines of bird species dependent on pioneering plant species or young forests.

Change trajectories from 1988 to 2005 show a distinct difference in study site land area converted from early successional forest to crops vs. mid-late successional forest to crops, suggesting that fallow periods are longer in the forest-dominated study site.

Of the nectarivores, L. thomasi was more abundant in older forests (negative relationship with density of trees), whereas G. soricina was more abundant in areas with low canopies and low basal area (i.e., earlier successional forest).

For example, do early-to-mid successional minor patch types become more expansive as late successional forest types are fragmented or do they also become more fragmented in managed landscapes?

Young stands are commonly assumed to require centuries to develop into late-successional forest habitat.

This experiment - the Hemlock Removal Experiment - examines the response of a late-successional forest ecosystem to the removal of its foundation species - Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis).

Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is a quintessential "foundation species" in early-successional forest ecosystems throughout much of North America.

Fragments of this size largely fail as remnants intended to maintain forest interior conditions and late-successional forest structure.

Our findings show it is possible to increase fungal diversity using forestry practices that enhance stand structural complexity and late-successional forest characteristics.