Sentences with phrase «areas of vegetation»

Areas colored in shades of orange are experiencing moderate through exceptional drought conditions and are consistent with areas of vegetation stress.

I can also imagine that it can be as simple as snow and ice covering vast areas of vegetation, and so preventing decomposition which would have returned CO2 to the atmosphere.

The left side shows areas of vegetation (green), bare ground (brown) and roads and dense development (gray).

Given the inverse relationship observed between their values, it has been possible to determine the additional area of vegetation needed (in this case of green roofs) necessary to reduce the temperature by the same amount as it is predicted to rise in different climate change models for Seville.

Not exact matches

Communities should contain patchworks of flammable fuels such as vegetation, houses and cars, interspersed with less flammable and nonflammable areas such as parking lots and areas cleaned of vegetation.

Under the agreement a perpetual restrictive covenant has been placed on the 121.7 ha which will require the area to be maintained and managed for its value as native vegetation with improvement of its assessed habitat score from 7/10 to 8/10 over a 20 - year period.

Scientist Dr. Uchino originated a straightforward technique to measure the «Vegetation Cover Ratio» (the percentage of area covered by vegetation to unit soil surface area) of each crop to assess the relation between growth traits of weed suppression and coVegetation Cover Ratio» (the percentage of area covered by vegetation to unit soil surface area) of each crop to assess the relation between growth traits of weed suppression and covegetation to unit soil surface area) of each crop to assess the relation between growth traits of weed suppression and cover crops.

Keeping native vegetation such as natural forests or grasslands as fragments within production areas or along streams and rivers can make a lot of difference for conservation.

increased cover and diversity of in - stream aquatic vegetation, particularly in areas of the Wakool River downstream of the confluence with Yallakool Creek

Benefits of weir pool drawdown: Vegetation recolonising areas that have been permanently inundated in the past — bank of the River Murray above Lock 8 and Wangumma wetland during weir pool draw down in 2014 - 15 Photos: New South Wales Department of Primary Industries — Water

I'm sure the Brazilian coffee isn't shaded, since cerrado is savannah, not forest, and RA standards call for «Farms in areas where the original natural vegetation is not forest must dedicate at least 30 % of the farm area for conservation or recovery of the area's typical ecosystems.»

In other areas, such as portions of Brazil where the native vegetation is not forest, shade canopy cover may be less appropriate ecologically or agronomically.

A combination of Commonwealth and New South Wales environmental water has been delivered to the Macquarie River and Macquarie Marshes since 2009 - 10, which has helped to support the inundation of core wetland areas and supported vegetation, fish and waterbirds.

Watering will increase the abundance and health of vegetation and native fish populations, such as expanding areas of Black Box and restoring River Red gums.

In addition, properties belonging to Nature's Haven conserve areas of natural vegetation benefiting both the native and protected fauna and flora.

Spring environmental flows improved native vegetation abundance and diversity along areas of riverbank.

A major part is covered by woods, but some areas with less vegetation even remind of the American southwest.

Vegetation must be re-established or recovered in an equivalent of 10 % of the total farm area (one - third of the 30 %) during the first three years of the plan.

In terms of natural vegetation communities, the RBCMA is the most diverse protected area in Belize.

Its vast swathe swamp of rivers, creeks and rivulets and dense mangrove vegetation has made effective policing of the area a herculean task for the security agencies.

The mystery surrounding these suspected murders in the area is that all the victims were discovered in small water bodies on the outskirt of the town and under mangrove vegetation sites dotted along the opposite sides of the main Atorkor - Dzita - Anyanui road.

The areas of heaviest vegetation are the coolest (yellow) due to evaporation of water and shade.

The measurements of CO2 concentrations dissolved in the water compared to the satellite map of vegetation showed a very strong correlation between the intensity of CO2 outgassing and the area of flooded vegetation and floating aquatic plants.

As a first step, in 2012, nations that are party to the convention will provide data on two measurable indicators: the proportion of the population in vulnerable areas living above the poverty line and the area of land covered by vegetation.

Recent regional scale analyses using satellite - based vegetation indices such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index have found extensive areas of dryland greening in areas of the Mediterranean, the Sahel, the Middle East and northern China, as well as greening trends in Mongolia and South America, according to vegetation indices such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index have found extensive areas of dryland greening in areas of the Mediterranean, the Sahel, the Middle East and northern China, as well as greening trends in Mongolia and South America, according to Vegetation Index have found extensive areas of dryland greening in areas of the Mediterranean, the Sahel, the Middle East and northern China, as well as greening trends in Mongolia and South America, according to the paper.

The authors also point out that the focus of the Forest Code on riparian forest patches should not undermine the need to maintain and restore native vegetation in areas further away from the streams.

The researchers found that the presence and seriousness of gastrointestinal parasitic infections were higher in more urbanized areas with land covered by compact soil and cultivated vegetation.

While the decline of green vegetation was small, the area affected was not: 2.1 million square miles (5.4 million square kilometers), equivalent to over half the area of the continental United States.

The study, «Response of understory vegetation to salvage logging following a high - severity wildfire,» reports a modest difference between logged and unlogged areas for some shrubs, but researchers with the agency's Pacific Southwest Research Station conclude the diversity of plant species and their abundance, as a whole, differed little between logged and unlogged sites.

What surprise the researchers is that although it is now raining more and has become greener, it is particularly the more drought resistant species that thrive instead of the tree and shrub vegetation that has long been characteristic of the area.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

«The lower capacity of floodplain forests to recover suggests that these areas can be trapped by recurrent fires in an open vegetation state more easily than the uplands,» says Milena Holmgren of Wageningen University & Research and a coauthor of the study.

You can see areas that have been fenced off to keep the public from trampling the vegetation and you see little labels where they are actually putting in some of the plantings so they can remember what they put where and keep track of those.

«Most of the slides in this area originate from about halfway up the slope, but this flow contained sediments and vegetation from the top of the slope,» Stark said, «The higher up the slope the landslide starts, the more potential energy it will have.»

The results suggest that climate change will convert much of the area currently occupied by temperate grasslands and deserts to subtropical vegetation with effects on associated wildlife and human populations.

With the data they simulated 130 years of growth following the Yellowstone Fires using a computer model calibrated to the study area and used by forest and land managers around the U.S., called the Forest Vegetation Simulator.

And even if the flames do approach, the waste is stored in an area cleared of vegetation and protected by fire teams, officials said.

We're seeing areas of formerly treeless, windswept tundra transition into shrub vegetation as the climate warms and different things grow.

«There are certainly more new species of plant to be discovered in Ogaden and in other parts of the world, but the existence of another unknown tree dominating the vegetation over such a large area is highly unlikely,» botanist David Mabberley of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England, writes in this week's Science.

Large, densely populated urban areas are highly susceptible to exhausting heat waves exacerbated by the «heat island» effect in which once permeable, cooling surfaces like open land, bodies of water and vegetation have been replaced with surfaces that capture and retain heat like asphalt and concrete.

Another co-author, Rhonda Quinn of Seton Hall University, studied carbon isotopes in the soil, which along with animal fossils at the site allowed researchers to reconstruct the area's vegetation.

This heat map shows the areas of the United States where the soil microbial biomass is susceptible to changes in vegetation cover.

The task force also recommends that city, county and state governments seriously consider abandoning whole areas of the coast altogether, to allow vegetation to gradually migrate away from the shoreline and give nature a chance to build more natural barriers to rising seas, hurricanes and severe storms known to hit the Northeast frequently.

At least half of current vegetated areas are predicted to shift to a different type of vegetation class, with a general trend of now - present grasses and small shrubs yielding to larger shrubs and trees as the climate warms, the scientists said.

They examined the vegetation - caribou - wolf food chain in the area, where the presence of other organic contaminants such as legacy pesticides and fluorinated surfactants suggested that CUPs might be found in the vegetation and animals.

Loss of bird populations would have large effects on potential spreading of vegetation to new areas.

Rhizosphere soil for microbial isolations was collected from the Little Buck watershed at the University of California Hopland Research and Extension Center in an area in which Avena barbata are the dominant vegetation.

The silicate + CO2 - > different silicate + carbonate chemical weathering rate tends to increase with temperature globally, and so is a negative feedback (but is too slow to damp out short term changes)-- but chemical weathering is also affected by vegetation, land area, and terrain (and minerology, though I'm not sure how much that varies among entire mountain ranges or climate zones)-- ie mountanous regions which are in the vicinity of a warm rainy climate are ideal for enhancing chemical weathering (see Appalachians in the Paleozoic, more recently the Himalayas).

The Finnish Meteorological Institute has participated in a study in which similar tundra areas were divided into three different types of tundra on the basis of climate and vegetation.

For example, some sacred sites are named after the long - standing vegetation communities grown in that area; yet many of the species may no longer be present under future climates.