Sentences with phrase «ecotone of»

They did a lot of work to study the stand dynamics: Studies of modern dynamics of larch stands were performed in ecotone of the polar boundary of the forest in the valley of Yadayakhody - yakha.

«As «Fear the Walking Dead» returns for Season 3, our families will be brought together in the vibrant and violent ecotone of the U.S. - Mexican border... [Read More]

When «Fear the Walking Dead» returns for Season 3, our families are brought together in the vibrant and violent ecotone of the U.S. - Mexico border.

Climatic variability and episodic Pinus ponderosa establishment along the forest - grassland ecotones of Colorado.

Not exact matches

The Mississippi River flowing into the Gulf of Mexico — that is an ecotone.

Overview: Page 1 - 2: Introduction to Ecosystems Page 3 - 4: The Food Chain Page 5 - 6: Scales of Ecosystems Page 7 - 8: Tundra Page 9 - 10: Taiga Page 11 - 12: Temperate Forest Page 13 - 14: Rainforest Page 15 - 16: Grassland Page 17 - 18: Savanna Page 19 - 20: Desert Page 21 - 22: Marine Page 23 - 24: Freshwater Page 25 - 26: Reflection EXTRA: Compact version of the unit Keywords: Ecosystem, biome, ecotone, biosphere, biotic, herbivores, carnivores, trees, earth, nature, animals, plants, species, food chain, oceans, tundra, taiga, temperate forest, rainforest, grassland, savanna, desert, marine, freshwater

This rather common spatial pattern of tundra and forest communities across the ecotone is the result of long - term interactions between fire disturbance and climate (Payette & Gagnon 1985; Asselin & Payette 2006).

Left arrow indicates initial deforestation and inception of the boreal forest - tundra ecotone and right arrow corresponds to start - up of rapid deforestation after AD 1550.

The northern part of the North American boreal forest corresponds to the forest - tundra ecotone where trees and forests reach their northernmost distribution limits (Rowe 1972; Timoney et al. 1992; Payette et al. 2001).

A rapid upward shift of a forest ecotone during 40 years of warming in the Green Mountains of Vermont

In other words, tree vegetation has not yet expanded to the climatic limit because of insufficient supply of larch seeds to tundra areas in the upper part of the treeline ecotone, although it is already close to this limit on some slopes.

At the southern ecotone (see Glossary) with continental grasslands, a contraction of boreal forest is projected due to increased impacts of drought, insects and fires (Bachelet et al., 2001; Scholze et al., 2006), together with a lower rate of sapling survival (Hogg and Schwarz, 1997).