Sentences with phrase «forest site it studied»

The team calculated the forest site it studied released methane roughly equivalent to burning 40 gallons of gasoline per every 2.5 acres per year.

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Research ecologist Mourad Gabriel is one of the few scientists studying illegal grow sites in California's overrun national forests.

While studying their diversity at conserved forests and cattle grazing sites across the mountains of Mexico, the researchers found some new species of dung beetles.

In a study of New Jersey pine - oak forest, Winfree was surprised to find that bee populations are more abundant and diverse near sites of human disturbance — where backyard gardens or farm fields add to the range of blossoms available.

This is the largest ever study estimating above and below - ground carbon loss from selective logging and ground level forest fires in the tropics, based on data from 70,000 sampled trees and thousands of soil, litter and dead wood samples from 225 sites in the eastern Brazilian Amazon.

The research team studied 824 forest sites scattered throughout the 124 million hectare Brazilian state of Pará.

In this acoustic monitoring study, five pilot recording sites were set up in three city parks, a forest and a forested suburb on Okinawa, which is the largest and most inhabited island in the Ryūkyū archipelago.

The Rutgers study is the first to compare variations of food and nutrition at similar tropical rain forest sites — some of the oldest forests on Earth — that are in close proximity.

To conduct the study, Clark and Berdanier analyzed data dating back to 1993 on the annual growth rates of 28,879 individual trees from 35 species growing at the Duke University Forest in North Carolina's Piedmont, and at the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research site in the state's western mountains.

The authors found that study sites with many deer were virtually devoid of species like the Hooded Warbler, White - eyed Vireo, and the Prairie Warbler — species that rely on the forest undergrowth.

Although secondary forests do have value for conservation, the study suggests that primary forests are necessary as sources of biodiversity and as a refuge for species that can colonize other sites that are being restored.

Larson and his co-authors conducted their study in the Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot, a long - term research site located in Yosemite National Park.

«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nate McDowell, a renowned forest ecologist and plant physiologist who coauthored a paper in the journal Nature Plants highlighting this research.

The Harvard Forest Long - Term Ecological Research site in Petersham, Massachusetts, where Ecosystems Center scientists study the long - term effect of climate warming on forest ecForest Long - Term Ecological Research site in Petersham, Massachusetts, where Ecosystems Center scientists study the long - term effect of climate warming on forest ecforest ecology.

[8] One recent study spatially overlaid the requisite physical parameters for kelp with mean oceanographic conditions has produced a model predicting the existence of subsurface kelps throughout the tropics worldwide to depths of 200 m. For a hotspot in the Galapagos Islands, the local model was improved with fine - scale data and tested; the research team found thriving kelp forests in all eight of their sampled sites, all of which had been predicted by the model, thus validated their approach.

«This is methodologically a big leap forward that will allow scientists to go back to sites sampled in the past and fill in the gaps,» said Glenn Juday, a forest ecologist at University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who was not involved in the study.

As part of NGEE - Tropics, Berkeley Lab has been studying the forests in Puerto Rico as a pilot study site to help improve modeling of the Earth system.

To refine this study to specific sites and a specific tree species, soil characteristics between two areas in Montana were then compared to seek possible differences among ponderosa pine forests where tree mortality was recorded between 1998 and 2010.

(iv) Sites with charcoal macrofossils beneath, in, and above the current organic horizon (corresponding to the large majority of the remaining sites of the study area) are treeless stands composed of a much scattered cover (generally < 1 %) of black spruce shrubs — i.e. sites burned probably more than twice since initial forest establishment, without successful tree regeneration and currently forming lichen - shrub tundra.

(iii) Sites with charcoal macrofossils beneath the current organic horizon (corresponding to more than 20 % of the sites of the study area) are stands composed of a relatively dense cover (generally between 10 and 40 %) of black spruce trees and shrubs — i.e. sites burned probably more than twice since initial forest establishment with successful tree regeneration because they are currently forming woodlands and krummholz.

M. Monirul Qader Mirza, a leading author of the IPCC reports, says studies by the Institute for Water Modelling, based in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, show that a 32 cm rise in the sea level could submerge 84 percent of the Sundarbans - the world's largest mangrove forest and a UNESCO Heritage Site - by 2050.

The project will also develop a chimpanzee field study site that includes planting a 30 - mile (50 km) tree corridor to connect the Gishwati Forest Reserve, the chimpanzees» home range, to Nyungwe National Park in southwest Rwanda.

I see your recent objections and Mr. Zagoni's responses to them as further evidence that, generally speaking, this «Climate of Doom» site misses the thermodynamic forest for its studying of radiative trees.

The scientists behind the paper studied 74 sites — 39 lowland rainforest and 34 plantation habitats — along the Kinabatangan River from February to July 2011, covering a range of habitat parameters, such as canopy, understory and forest floor.

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