Sentences with phrase «number of trees killed»
For mountain pine beetles, the study found fire severity was high immediately after an outbreak, but over time as the number of trees killed by the beetle outbreak grew, fire severity leveled out.
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«Huge numbers of trees are killed over the origin and function of sex, but some people writing and teaching this material still have animal sex in the back of their minds.
When storms, fires, or other disturbances kill a great number of trees, the dead biomass is decomposed by fungi, insects, and the like, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
This fungus - like pathogen has killed more than a million oak trees in California and has been found in a number of Puget Sound nurseries.
Now, with a number of publisher - specific applications, there's a new subset: comics one might like to read, assuming they didn't have to kill a tree to do it, which can be purchased for less than the cost of a physical copy.
When storms, fires, or other disturbances kill a great number of trees, the dead biomass is decomposed by fungi, insects, and the like, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Post-operation, the numbers of bat deaths and bird kills far exceed what was expected from the wind turbines, noise complaints are being made more frequently as a result of more powerful turbines, and wind power companies have abused their approvals by removing trees from protected woodlands, for example, or placing turbines on sites not consistent with the approvals.
Will rapid transitions and species invasions lead to sudden changes in plant community balance, killing large numbers of trees or otherwise upsetting the local carbon cycle, and will those disruptions put more CO2 and methane into the air or remove it?
Extreme droughts that kill large numbers of trees can temporarily turn a sink into a carbon source.
These species kill by overwhelming, with coordinated aggression and sheer numbers, a tree's defenses, followed by a complete destruction of the tree's ability to transport the products of photosynthesis (e.g. sucrose, amino acids, hormones, etc.) through its transport tissue, the phloem or inner bark.
Spruce and pine bark beetles have recently infested vast areas of forest in North America, killing huge numbers of trees.
The number of trees in California's Sierra Nevada forests killed by drought, a bark beetle epidemic and warmer temperatures has dramatically increased since last year, raising fears they will fuel catastrophic wildfires and endanger people's lives, officials said Wednesday.