Sentence examples for young vegetation from inspiring English sources

For example, herbivores that eat seeds and young vegetation high in energy have the highest assimilation efficiencies, those that eat older leaves have intermediate efficiencies, and those that feed on decaying wood have very low efficiencies.

The summer pastures at the alpine belt are characterized by a delayed snow melt which retards vegetation growth and therefore prolongs the availability of young vegetation, similar in quality to the spring pastures (Bauer et al. 2011).

Results of the current study can help practitioners determine if a slope is at risk by the lack of additional roots cohesion combined with different types of soil and young vegetation.

Nevertheless, the dominance of young vegetation stands in Chinese urban green infrastructure suggests this small carbon sequestration efficiency could become substantial in the near future, given that appropriate policies and management practices are adopted to promote urban green infrastructure for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Two peak breeding seasons corresponding to rainfall patterns and growth of young vegetation occur in California, Arizona, and New Mexico.

In any case, younger vegetation has distinct properties when compared to more mature vegetation and we must acknowledge that the impacts of restoration and forest recovery are dynamic (Bruijnzeel 2004; Filoso et al. 2017).

The influence of proximate causes on the dynamics of deforestation and forest regrowth showed consistent patterns, such as higher forest regrowth rates near rivers, on steep slopes and far from dirt roads, whereas losses in young secondary vegetation and forest were far from rivers, on gentle slopes and near urban areas.

Collections were made in late spring by dragging on a section of private property characterized by a patchwork of old field and young forest vegetation.

Four environmental matrices were taken into consideration (old secondary vegetation, young secondary vegetation, pasture and live fences) and compared to four forest units (ecological reference), in Tenosique, Tabasco, México.

Our approach is particularly effective in classifying highly dynamic pioneer vegetation younger than 7 years into 2-yr intervals, suggesting that rapid changes in vegetation canopies can be detected with high accuracy.

Soon after the winter ice clears, northern pike spawn in shallow vegetated waters (typically submerged terrestrial and wetland plants), eggs usually hatch after 12 14 days, and the young remain attached to vegetation for an additional 6 10 days.