forest decline

But it found no evidence of an overall forest decline.

Forest decline may be a similar process involving trees.

He also suggested that less severe forest decline than in the 3,100 dead square miles "could be a real phenomenon."

All agreed that forest decline could not be totally explained by acid precipitation.

By the mid-1980s well over a hundred hypotheses had been put forward to explain the forest decline.

However, extreme and/or long-term climate change scenarios also create the potential for widespread forest decline.

So forest decline had officially arrived in Britain?

The use of assisted migration has been proposed as a mitigation tool in forest decline due to climate change.

Large-scale cattle ranching is also one of the main reasons for forest decline in Central America.

The report on the protection of forests addresses the issue of forest decline resulting from felling.

The conundrums surrounding forest decline were many.

It finds no evidence to link forest decline in North America to acid rain, other than for high-altitude red spruce.

De Forest declined the proposition.

To environmentalists - and an increasing number of foreign foresters and ecologists - it seemed that Britain too had all the signs of forest decline.

Evidence from here proved decisive in the 1980s to track down Acid Rain as major cause of Forest Decline.

Forest decline can be viewed as the result of continued, widespread, and severe dieback of multiple species in the forest.

Greg Williams argues that forests cannot be more productive than farmland because the net productivity of forests decline as they mature due to ecological succession.

Just because symptoms of forest decline are not currently visible, Dr. Cowling argued, does not rule out the possibility that they are under way.

However, forest decline was far more extensive in Germany and continental Europe than, for example, in Britain and Norway.

N saturation can result in nutrient imbalances (e.g., loss of calcium due to nitrate leaching) and possible forest decline.

Most predictions of forestry related biodiversity loss are based on species-area models, with an underlying assumption that as the forest declines species diversity will decline similarly.

The forest declined in the Neolithic period, and largely disappeared during the Bronze Age, mainly as a result of climatic change although hastened by human activity.

It announced that the survey had been stimulated by 'fears' that forest decline of the European type 'may be occurring in Britain'.

The wasp's phytotoxic secretion, its larvae and the fungus combine very effectively with each other and contribute to forest decline rates of up to 80%.

While the complex of possible causes was being investigated, foresters began comparing notes on the common features of the forest decline, the 'symptoms' of Waldsterben.