Sentence examples for terrestrial forests from inspiring English sources

It has been estimated that their carbon sequestration potential exceeds terrestrial forests on a per-area basis.

Streams are elongate ecosystems with a high degree of connectivity with adjacent ecosystems such as terrestrial forests.

As a whole, mangrove, salt marsh, and seagrass ecosystems are estimated to be disappearing from 2 to 15 times faster than terrestrial forests.

These fossils have been dated to the Givetian Age (392 million to 385 million years ago) of the Devonian Period; they are probably the remains of the oldest known trees, which made up the world's first terrestrial forests.

We conclude that Hg concentrations in P. cinereus can act as a biomonitoring tool for broad areas of remote terrestrial forests, and may help identify regions and landscape characteristics of particular concern for Hg bioaccumulation.

Given the impacts those kinds of seasons currently have on terrestrial forests, agriculture and human health, we'll likely see substantial stress from severely hot conditions". The scientists also projected the velocity of climate change, defined as the distance per year that species of plants and animals would need to migrate to live in annual temperatures similar to current conditions.

Predicted changes in climate have raised concerns about potential impacts on terrestrial forest ecosystem productivity, biogeochemical cycling, and the availability of water resources.

Terrestrial forest ecosystems in Uttara Kannada District of Central Western Ghats have been experiencing threats due to deforestation with land use changes and fragmentation of contiguous forests, as is evident from the decline of interior forests and consequent increases in patch, transitional, edge and perforated forests.

Brackish, aquatic, and terrestrial grassland systems had statistically similar recovery times and collectively they recovered faster than terrestrial forest systems (ANOVA, p<0.001, d.f. = 6, 168, F = 7.217; followed by post-hoc Tukey pair-wise tests; Fig. 4).

A deepening understanding of the molecular components of mycorrhizal interactions, an important component of terrestrial forest ecosystems, will have applications in global carbon management and sustainability.

The increasing evidence for the coast-wide decline in salmon abundance on the Pacific coast of North America [ 49] may have substantially more ecological implications to terrestrial forest food webs than previously recognized [ 5].