Sentence examples for this old growth from inspiring English sources

However, in this old growth forest ecosystem the historic fire return interval is estimated to be 230 years compared to our study area that burned every three to five years (Agee [1993]).

This old-growth forest, then, is not really old growth.

The results of our study illustrate that soil moisture is an important driver of temporal variations in soil CO2 efflux in this old-growth forest.

The observed reverse-J shaped distributions are typical for old-growth stands in the Valdivian Costal Range and the Valdivian Andes (Donoso 2013; Donoso 2005), showing that single-tree selection cutting is able to maintain this old-growth attribute.

The results obtained outside the "US" and "MM" exclosures showed that understory vegetation cover, biomass and species richness of this old-growth plantation increased over time after thinning, even under severe deer grazing pressure.

Overall, these results demonstrate that thinning led to increased understory vegetation in this old-growth plantation heavily grazed by sika deer, and that most understory vegetation was composed of perennial, annual, unpalatable, and grazing-tolerant species.

This old-growth forest currently occupies only about 2% of its ancestral range.

Physically speaking, this represents the new growth burying the old growth.

All of that old growth will go.

While approximately $5,300 · ha−1 of NPV could be obtained without any old growth, this was reduced to about $1500 · ha−1 when 22% of the landscape was kept in old growth.

At Raudberga there has been a further 36% reduction from the original 72% coverage, leaving just 36% of this area covered by old growth.