Sentences with phrase «changes in vegetation composition»

A significant component of this key ecosystem characteristic is dependent on relatively slow processes such as rates of recuitment, mortality, and changes in vegetation composition.

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Change of fire frequency in the Eastern Canadian boreal forests during the Holocene: does vegetation composition or climate trigger the fire regime?

With respect to why there was a significant increase in tree density over the past several decades, Dolanc offers that the changes in the density and composition of lower - elevation forests are consistent with fire suppression; but that the density increases in high - elevation vegetation types (subalpine forests generally don't burn) are «more likely to be caused by changing climate.»

Using the pollen composition from 74 single probes, Bernhardt and his colleagues were able to reconstruct changes in the lagoon's vegetation, which ultimately reflected fluctuations in water feed - in from the Nile.

This can tell us a lot about responses on the ground to changing climate that occur prior to actual changes in the composition of vegetation species.