Sentences with phrase «deciduous stands»

Under various climate and land - use scenarios, coniferous stands are expected to lose 71 percent to 100 percent of their current range to deciduous stands across New England by 2085, particularly in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, due to increased temperature and precipitation and changes in timber harvesting.

These results emphasize that coniferous stands cycle metals at a slower rate than deciduous stands.

Specifically, coniferous soils had 30 percent to 50 percent less calcium, potassium, magnesium, manganese and zinc than deciduous stands, while metal concentrations also were smaller in coniferous needles than deciduous leaves.

Not exact matches

Beavers create a wide variety of dead wood types, but they particularly produce standing and deciduous dead wood.

The Dartmouth researchers studied eight adjacent deciduous and coniferous forest stands in Vermont's Green Mountains and New Hampshire's White Mountains.

For example, BiFOR in deciduous forest on Cannock Chase in the English Midlands, and EucFACE in a Eucalyptus stand in subtropical Australia.

Evergreen stands of conifers are being replaced by deciduous trees, larch, and birch or, in some places, by less productive grassland.