Sentences with phrase «vegetation structure»

Climate is a major factor in controlling global patterns of vegetation structure and productivity, as well as plant and animal species composition.

; (3) What are the consequences of the changes in vegetation structure and energy balance for the region?

Future climate change and increasing atmospheric CO2 are expected to cause major changes in vegetation structure and function over large fractions of the global land surface.

Ecologically speaking, these terms represent vegetation structure with very different ramifications for habitat quality.

For ideal survival, then, Vernasco says fledglings do well with a «mosaic» of habitats made up of forests that differ in age and thus vegetation structure.

Inconspicuous changes in grazing and vegetation structure caused host ants to be replaced by similar but unsuitable congeners, explaining the extinction of European Maculinea populations.

Island Foxes may prefer stabilized sand dunes (Sanchez and Hudgens 2012, Gregory et al. 2012, Garcelon and Hudgens 2012) and areas with higher topographic and vegetation structure diversity (USFWS 2012) such as shrublands and woodlands (Laughrin 1977, Crooks and Van Vuren 1996, Roemer 1999, Drake 2013).

Conversely, some habitats appear to be used less, particularly types with low vegetation structure such as grasslands (Roemer 1999, Roemer and Wayne 2003).

Widespread agricultural land use by mid-Holocene is further evidenced by altered fire regimes that may have transformed vegetation structure and species composition across many regions, with woodland ecosystems from the Mediterranean to the Tropics increasingly recognized as the bio-cultural legacies of long histories of prior human use (50, 74, 78 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 84).

Assessing ecoclimate teleconnections requires explicit consideration of vegetation - climate feedbacks through five steps -LRB-[14]; Fig 1A): «(1) How does the land surface change in terms of vegetation structure?

Regarding coffee certifications, Coffee & Conservation has been primarily concerned with criteria defining «shade» because those are the guidelines for canopy cover, vegetation structure, and tree species that promote biodiversity - friendly conditions.

«This provides us with a comprehensive three - dimensional digital model of the landscape, which enables a precise analysis of the vegetation structure,» says Jussi Baade, associate professor of Physical Geography at the University of Jena.

We now have a basic understanding of the climate and the vegetation structure and know about the role of bats and hummingbirds as pollinators.

Vegetation structure is mainly shrub - dominated, but woodlands, forests and even grasslands occur in limited regions.

Greg Asner of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University, has developed advanced applications for processing data generated by a wide range of sensors, including Carnegie's state - of - the - art Airborne Observatory (CAO), which uses a combination of technologies aboard high - altitude aircraft to create high - resolution, three - dimensional maps of vegetation structure.