Sentences with phrase «forest age»

Appearing in the journal Global Change Biology, the study showed that tree growth slows down as forests age, as expected.

So researchers from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, planted seeds from three endangered orchid species in plots on six sites in Maryland: three in younger forests aged 50 to 70 years old and three in more mature forests aged 120 to150 years old.

Ecological responses to forest age, habitat, and host vary by mycorrhizal type in boreal peatlands — Peter G. Kennedy — Mycorrhiza

However, these changes varied widely across tree size, forest age, ecozones, and species.