Dominant trees definition

Dominant trees means trees whose crowns are higher than the general level of the canopy and which receive light from the sides as well as from above.

Dominant trees means trees that are larger than average for a site with crowns extending above the general level of the crown cover.

Examples of Dominant trees in a sentence

• Dominant trees include black ash, red maple, yellow birch balsam poplar, quaking aspen and, south of the vegetation tension zone, silver maple.

• Dominant trees are favored for retention in GSL studies, so the trees available for study were smaller in most of the treatments.

• Dominant trees typically average greater than 5 inches in diameter at the 1-foot stump height.Dominant and codominant trees have full crowns.The upper crowns are normally irregularly or smoothly flat-topped or rounded.

• Dominant trees had crowns that rose through or above the general canopy and received full sunlight from above and partial light from the side.

• Dominant trees in the central hardwoods-hemlock-white pine forest consist of American beech, hickories, yellow and black birch, and red, black, and white oaks.

• Dominant trees receive full light from above and partly from the sides.

• Dominant trees and basal areas in tidal freshwater forest monitoring areas 356.

• Dominant trees and shrubs are as follows: - Acacia tortillus, subsp, heteracantha, Lucium cinerium, Diospyros pallens, Rhus ciliate Grewia flava, Lycium hirsutum, Tarchonanthus camphorates, Ziziphus mucronata, Acacia erioloba, Acacia mellifera subsp, detinens, Protoasparagus laricinus, Acacia hebeclada subsp, hebeclada and Ehretia rigida.

• Dominant trees are red maple (Acer), pin oak (Quercus palustris), and green ash (Fraxinus).

• Dominant trees, those larger and taller thanthe surrounding ones, have been more subject to wind and usually have developed stronger root systems as a result.