Sentences with phrase «forest recovery after»

Now the researchers say that forest recovery after disturbance is likely to be a big issue, especially how much carbon will return back to forest ecosystem due to the regrowth.

The researchers» discovery revealed that at the forest fire site, the plants are dominated by flora quite similar to the kind that begin forest recovery after a fire today.

Not exact matches

After 2 years, in the plots missing 75 % of the forest algae, the ecosystem tipped over to entirely turf algae and C. amentacea never came back, showing that recovery length could predict ecosystem collapse, the researchers reported yesterday in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Moreover, even after people move out, the recovery of forests can not always be left to chance — it needs active management and ecologically friendly government policies.

Recovery of forests following the collapse of human populations in the Americas after the arrival of Europeans may have driven the period of global cooling from 1500 - 1750 known as the Little Ice Age, report researchers speaking at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

New research shows forests are slow to recover from droughts, and climate models that overlook recovery time are likely overestimating how much carbon forests can absorb after droughts.

We added one criterion — high severity burn patches — because a nearby study on the recovery of ponderosa pine forests after wildfire demonstrated that mature forests suitable for thinning would not likely develop in areas that had burned with high severity within the timeframe of this study [34].

Old forests that are protected and allowed to grow and recovery for long periods after fires and hurricanes would store carbon over time, more so than if those same lands were managed as agricultural fields or short - rotation tree farms.

Recovery of the boreal forest after a long period of deforestation will require sustained warming which, indeed, has currently been taking place since the mid-1990s in Eastern subarctic Canada.

And taken globally, increases in tropical forest carbon may be at least partly explained not by carbon fertilization, but by a recovery of carbon after past disturbances such as fire (both natural and anthropogenic) and land clearing by humans even centuries earlier - a factor that will reduce sink strength over time as forests recover.