Sentence examples for successional phases from inspiring English sources

Most artificial reef (AR) studies have examined the early colonization stages of benthic communities, while only a few have monitored the development of AR communities beyond the initial successional phases and evaluated the time scale needed for such development.

These interventions are usually designed to accelerate natural succession or to bypass intermediate successional phases.

Also field data and simulation output show a good accordance in the late successional phase (Fig. 3c).

The ridge forest also showed a rapid increase in productivity (GPP and ANPP) during the early successional phase (Fig. 4c).

In the late successional phase (after 500 years), trees attained sizes of up to 110 cm dbh.

In contrast to these field studies, which are based on a few measurements in time, the simulation model allows us to follow patterns across the whole successional phase.

Furthermore, these small and irregular forest fragments displayed forest structure, diversity and composition characteristics similar to those communities disturbed by selective harvesting or in an early successional phase.

In the early successional phase, the forest included many small-sized trees (approximately 425 ± 24.4 per ha, dbh < 20 cm), whereas larger trees (dbh > 70 cm) were absent (Fig. 3b).

The BSCs investigated here all belong to the late successional phase, referring to BSC type 4 (cyanobacterial crust with cyano- and chlorolichens) described by (Büdel et al. 2009) from southwest Africa.

In the early successional phase, as long as the fraction of pioneer trees in the forest community was larger than 0.75, we observed two steep gradients in NEE from 0.0 Mg C∙(ha∙yr)−1 to 9.3 Mg C∙(ha∙yr)−1 in the first 9 years and from 9.3 to 3.4 in the years 9 to 17.

Finally, fine scale gap dynamics commences and a truly uneven-aged forest is developed in the late-successional phase (Fig. 5; Aakala et al. 2009).