Sentences with phrase «increased deciduous»

Gradual changes in composition resulting from decreased evergreen conifer productivity and increased mortality, as well as increased deciduous species productivity, can be facilitated by more rapid shifts associated with fire disturbance where it can occur.

In North America these coupled interactions set the stage for changes in ecological processes, already documented, consistent with a biome shift characterized by increased deciduous composition in the interior boreal forest and evergreen conifer migration into tundra areas that are, at the same time, experiencing increased shrub densification.

As the latitude increases deciduous forest transition to mixed and coniferous forests.

Not exact matches

Based on the belief that breastfeeding increases the risk for infant caries, some researchers and healthcare professionals have recommended that infants be weaned with the eruption of the first deciduous tooth.

After the cleanup at Harvard Forest, researchers noticed that stream flow in the forest increased dramatically and that the white pines downed by the storm were eventually succeeded by deciduous hardwoods.

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.

If both a deciduous tooth and a permanent tooth are in the same socket in the jaw, the crowding of the two teeth will increase the likelihood that food and debris will become trapped between the teeth.

The larger, more frequent, wildfires occurring in the late 20th century increased the abundance of deciduous trees and mosses in the forest at the expense of coniferous trees.

Results from Fall et al. (12) indicate that TE (i) is larger than T in 8 areas with higher physical evaporation and transpiration rates (e.g. deciduous broadleaf forests and croplands) and (ii) shows a stronger relationship than T to vegetation cover, especially during the growing season (biomass increase).

Yes, a lot of those deciduous trees will indeed die and others will sustain major damage that both weakens them and increases their susceptibility to pathogens.

To take just one fairly representative example, in the classic Rothampstead experiments in England where arable land was allowed to revert to deciduous temperate woodland, soil organic carbon increased 300 - 400 % from around 20 t / ha to 60 - 80 t / ha (or about 20 - 40 tons per acre) in less than a century (Jenkinson & Rayner 1977).