Sentences with phrase «area of forest»

To see just how important this accuracy is to the fungus, the researchers identified dozens of infected ants in a small area of the forest.

Polish scientists worked to protect the least spoiled area of forest with the greatest density of big trees, first as a nature reserve and then as a national park in 1932.

The spatial pattern of forest is important because the same area of forest can be arranged in different ways on the landscape with important consequences for ecosystem processes.

The researchers also found species loss could be offset by maintaining areas of forest that contain distinctly different populations of plants and animals that, while different, complement and help sustain each other.

Could reduced areas of forest be a plausible answer?

The obvious move is to protect all old - growth forests for their carbon sequestration and resistance to wildfires, especially as climate change is increasing drought conditions in some large areas of forests.

«This study shows that fires are already degrading large areas of forests in Southern Amazonia,» Brando said, «and highlights the need to include interactions between extreme weather events and fire when attempting to predict the future of Amazonian forests under a changing climate.»

INPE's director, Gilberto Camara, credited a series of «coordinated actions» taken on behalf of the Brazilian government to combat deforestation, as well as an increase in «corporate responsibility» to not buy meat or soy produced on cleared areas of forest.

Spruce and pine bark beetles have recently infested vast areas of forest in North America, killing huge numbers of trees.

It is one of the last intact areas of forest land within Lusaka Province where deforestation rates are 11 times higher than the national average.

While all are bad, according to Tejedor, logging is less problematic because it only opens up small areas of the forest as select trees are chosen and cut down.

One could also argue that the number of cardboard boxes each one of us uses in a year is not that great, but multiply it by the population of Japan and its customers and we get huge areas of forest in Australia destroyed by the wood - chip industry.

The findings, released last week, estimate the nation's expanding forests sequester an additional 192 million metric tons of carbon annually due to increases in both the total area of forest land and the amount of carbon stored per acre.

You'll shift from cool greens and blues in deep areas of the forest to autumnal oranges and browns, helping to visually separate the different zones of the game world as well as the enemies and hazards.

To illustrate the magnitude of this addition, the EF calculates the hypothetical area of forest with current world - average carbon sequestration rates that would be needed to fully offset this addition.

We saw countless billows of smoke rising from different areas of the forest where people were burning down the forest, some for fuel, some for land, and some for political reasons.

General Hassan who accompanied the troops deep to theatre of operation revealed that the troops are currently involved in confidence building within the general area of the forest.

Rundel and his team will use LabVIEW software from Austin, Tex. — based National Instruments Corporation to analyze microclimate patterns and carbon flux over a specific area of the forest.

A team of scientists has discovered that fragmentation of formerly contiguous areas of forest leads to carbon emissions rising by another third.

Their survey uncovered a greater area of forest than an earlier one carried out for Friends of the Earth Scotland in 1987.

Today only three po`ouli are known to exist, dwelling in separate areas of the forest.

When Jérôme Chave stepped into a tropical forest for the first time, «I was even unable to identify a weed in my backyard at home, and the idea that hundreds of plant species were coexisting peacefully in tiny areas of forest astounded me,» he says.

That species, which some researchers consider a «native invader,» is spreading in areas of forest underbrush where deer are abundant.

One area of primary forest ended up having more than 300 tons of carbon per hectare, while areas of forest that had been burned or subjected to timber extraction had, at most, 200 tons per hectare and, on average, less than 100 tons of carbon per hectare.

Imagine these «slow poke» herbivore snails crawling with traces of orange slime, carrying a huge shell on their backs, and thriving in wooded areas of the forest being served as a local cuisine in Brgy.

The Hat Creek Recreational Area of the forest has seven campgrounds scattered along the creek as well as large lava flows, lava tubes, hiking trails and views of Mount Lassen.

A further 50 km drive south are 2 lovely natural attractions - the Emerald Pool is a beautiful natural pool within a charming area of forest.

Rocks and bushes will occasionally appear out of nowhere as the next area of the forest is being rendered before you.

In addition, the researchers found that peat forest areas, where stored carbon is most abundant and thus cheapest to manage, contained almost twice the mammal species density as other areas of forest.

Once ignited, these fires are particularly difficult to extinguish despite extensive rains, weather changes or firefighting attempts, and can persist for long periods of time (months, years), spreading deep (5 meters) and over extensive areas of forest subsurface.

To protect the world's remaining forests and avoid duping consumers, initiatives should focus on reducing overall demand rather than certify ever - expanding areas of forest being felled,» said Picken.

Total area of forest certified according to independently verified forest management schemes, as reported in the 2015 Forest Resource Assessment by the FAO.

As assessed by the Global Footprint Network, the carbon footprint is the additional area of forest (expressed in gha) needed to sequester all net anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) after subtracting the fraction of these estimated to be absorbed by oceans (currently 28 %)[21].

There are ways to grow oil palms in sustainable ways, but clearing large areas of forest growing on peat soils, further endangering wildlife (the orangutan being the most prominent example), and destroying biodiversity in general is not the way to do it.

That's what researchers are saying in a new paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters (via Mongabay): The reason is that as loggers move into older areas of the forest, the amount of biomass — and therefore the amount of stored carbon — is greater.

As more people move to cities, and agriculture is intensified, eventually areas of forest may be able to expand as well.

Of course, evidence of a shift to a new lower rainfall climate regime is needed, and evidence of large areas of forest close to that rainfall threshold would be required for the IPCC statement to be reasonable; there is ample published evidence for both.

A local biologist has found a unique lizard in a small area of forest only about 200 kilometres north of Brisbane.

The region also has vast areas of forest land that are converted each year to agricultural and other uses, making land use change and reduction of emissions resulting from deforestation a top priority for the region.

We questioned every villager we came across about day - to - day practices — unusual contact with animals, new areas of forest cleared, food and drink, travel, contact with traders.

Mining, particularly gold mining, on the other hand opens up huge areas of the forest and also invites contamination from mercury — which is either dumped in the river or burned and then inhaled by the miners and their families.

In 2011, while working in the same area of forest, Lim caught 120 bats from 41 different species.

Target lock: Skulltula This giant species of spider inhabits the deepest areas of forests.

PEFC certifies around 300 million hectares of forest worldwide, the largest area of forests by any certifying body.

Less than 150 years ago, vast areas of forest in New England were cleared for agricultural use and to supply timber for local development.

Pre-Columbian aboriginal communities required access to a large area of forest, and they would reduce the land's yield after one or two harvests; they would abandon the farmed lands so that the forest would grow back and would clear another strip for cultivation.