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Poor land use practices and many years of intense drought contributed to these heat waves by depleting soil moisture and reducing the moderating effects of evaporation.»
Poor land use practices can and have caused massive releases of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from carbon stocks.
Not exact matches
But fortunately, just as
poor land - management
practices are contributors to climate change,
use of good on - farm...
Our research goes to show that we should be more prudent in labeling a species «invasive» or non-native when the evidence for anthropogenic introduction is
poor», says Pfenninger and adds: «Perhaps the rapid increase in Spanish slugs we have seen in the last decades is caused by changes of
land use practice.
Problem is, 80 % of the
land that can be
used to grow crops is already in
use, and 15 % of that
land has been damaged by
poor agricultural
practices.