defoliation

Examples of defoliated

defoliated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Future global warming may also have an impact by increasing drought stress and mortality among defoliated trees.
A large plant (size: 26 cm) was defoliated by an unidentified fungus in the early 1993 rainy season.
All surviving defoliated plants produced flowers irrespective of the level of defoliation.
In both latter cases they produced fruit, but were abandoned and defoliated again.
Mortality of seedlings defoliated by more than 50% was around twice that of seedlings defoliated by less than 10%.
However, fewer than 10% of seedlings were defoliated by more than 50% at any time.
There was probably little or no plant reproduction during this time period because the hurricane severely defoliated many trees.
This suggests that improved water status of defoliated plants is at least one of the primary influences on photosynthetic activity.
From here they are poised to reinfest the newly flushed leaves produced by the defoliated tree.
These authors observed low dispersal abilities of adults when adults dispersed from heavily defoliated areas to local areas where no defoliation had occurred before.
A fragmentary, defoliated axis preserved as an impression (external mould) lacking counterpart, 10 cm long, 2 cm wide in a medium-grained sandstone.
Defoliated plants did not show such levels of compensation.
Therefore, even though the foliage concentration of tannins was decreased after treatment, the defensive ability of the defoliated plants may not be weakened.
Nevertheless, many individuals of these species were severely affected and most other forest trees were completely defoliated.
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