Sentences with phrase «arid land»

It is a culturally diverse society with a population of more than 22 million.21 Australia's population includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) peoples and migrants from some 200 countries with Indigenous Australian peoples representing 2.5 % of the total population.22 In over 60 years of planned post-war migration, Australia has accepted more than 6.5 million migrants and in the most recent census (2006), 3.1 million people (16 % of the population) were reported to speak a language other than English at home.23 The majority of the population lives in the cities mainly located around the coast; however, many live in rural and remote areas ranging from dry arid land to tropical and a few live in what are arguably some of the most remote and untouched areas of the world.

Here the Ponderosa Pine forest transitions into the high desert, characterized by arid land, junipers, sagebrush, and bitter - brush.

Furthermore, the western state of Gujarat, which contains large swaths of arid land, is an especially suitable spot for solar generation.

When arid land, once productive for grazing or agriculture, becomes desert, rural people move on.

But besides the ubiquitous Prius, the Southland is greening its arid land with native greenery, urban

Ocean - dominated systems, such as the open - ocean and coastal ecosystems adjacent to arid land (e.g. those in Antarctica and adjacent to arid regions, such as NW Australia; Falter et al. 2013) and very small watersheds, such as those in atolls and small islands, will likely reflect the open - ocean pH and Ω dynamics (Falter et al. 2013).

The exported moisture makes its way to the African Sahel, where it soaks the arid land and gradually builds up soil moisture over the course of three months.

After a period of hype and over enthusiasm, investments have dried up, somewhat like the promise of oil from arid land.

Consider that most arid land is degrading.

This intimate space takes on the feeling of a bunker in relation to «Smokescreen (Lion & Gazelle)» (2006), on the opposite wall, a photo of an explosion detonating on arid land, its furious clouds of dust throwing into doubt whether the subject really is a lion and a gazelle.

In Brush with Death, a vaguely human apparition escapes the clutches of the grim reaper, while Brand New Camel offers a vision of an artificial, arid land - a surreal desert state both vulnerable and dangerous.

It is a flat, arid land, with peculiar rock formations and a strange, dangerous wildlife.

Unlike the mass of arid land to the north, Belize experiences tropical climates with both wet and dry season; hurricane season spans June to November.

We wil travel along small villages painted in pink - grey colors merging into the local rock, ruins of kasbahs and ksours and parts of fertile shafts of land creating breathtaking contrast to the arid land.

By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land — in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.

Set against the monotony of arid land and small - town doldrums, Aloupis» deliberate pace assures the reciprocity between these two characters flourishes logically.

The combination of arid land, temperature and sunlight makes places such as California and southern Italy a paradise for growing wine grapes — at least for now.

«You could overgraze an arid land and convert it permanently to desert — that's a local threshold,» Kareiva explains.

The report's authors highlight the need to broaden arid land protected area coverage and raise awareness about the importance of sustainable collection of cacti from the wild in order to better conserve the species.

Arid land communities like those in northern Nevada get essentially almost no rain.

The study was published in Arid Land Systems: Science and Societies, a special issue of the journal Land.

Joining Ale on the publication were lead author Pradip Adhikari, Ale's former postdoctoral student now at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Nina Omani, postdoctoral research associate, and Dr. Paul DeLaune, environmental soil scientist, both with AgriLife Research at Vernon; and collaborators from the Arid Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Arizona; Cotton Incorporated in Cary, North Carolina; and the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Water is scarce in this arid land and coffee beans grown here tend to be smaller, and more irregular in size and shape.

Giant pumps can now reverse the flow of rivers and move water uphill to arid land farms that have become key cogs in our nation's not - so - local industrial food system.

In warmer lands, such as tropical, subtropical and arid lands, deciduous plants may lose their leaves during dry seasons or during times when there are changes in rainfall.

Beginning with a pilot facility in the arid lands north of Port Augusta with support from the SA government, Sundrop secured a 10 - year contract with Coles supermarkets to supply 15,000 tonnes of truss tomatoes per year.

[BOX 10] Committee on Minority Representation in Science, 1970 - 1973 Opportunities in Science Department Head Files: I, 1974 Opportunities in Science Department Head Files: II, 1972 - 1973 Committee on Opportunities in Science Women's Caucus Ad Hoc Committee of Women, 1972 - 1978 Committee on Industry, Technology and Society Files: I, 1973 - 1974 Committee on Industry, Technology and Society Files: II, 1971 - 1973 Youth Council Files, 1972 - 1973, 1969 - 1971 AAAS Youth Science Program, 1970 - 1981 Youth Council Newsletter, May 1972, October 1971, May 1971 Interim Committee on Arid Lands, 1963 - 1965 Committee on Arid Lands Arid Lands Research Newsletter, 1963 - 1972 Climate Study Committee Committee on Population and Reproduction Control Committee on Population, Resources, and the Environment Science, Arms Control, and National Security, Committee on

[BOX 4] Arid Lands Symposium - General, 1954 - 1955 Conference Programs and Correspondence with Sponsors and Grantors, 1967 - 1969 Conference Files I, 1968 - 1969 Conference Files II, 1966 - 1968 Basic Research (Symposium), 1959 Basic Research (MacNeill and Lehrer Report from 1/76-11 / 77), 1976 - 1977 Gordon Research Conference Files 1941-1946 1947-1952 I, 1947 - 1952 II, 1947 - 1952 I, 1953 - 1955 II, 1953-1955 1956-1959 (old) / CRC I, 1960 - 1965 (old) II, 1960 - 1965 Indian Science Congress, 1946 - 1975 Oceanographic Congress, 1957 - 1959 Oceanographic Congress - Lists, 1959 Oceanographic Congress - Funds, 1959 - 1966 Parliament of Science, 1958 Conference on National Energy Policy, 1977 Research and Development Colloquia, 1975 - 1985 Cosponsored Meetings, Conferences, 1964 - 1983

«However, it is a more significant concern in arid lands with negligible rainfall as compared with wetter regions.»

Arid lands, which cover some 40 percent of Earth's terrestrial surface, are too dry to sustain much in the way of vegetation.

Using NASA rain and vegetation data, researchers can track when and where arid lands begin to green, and for the first time anticipate if zebras will make the trek or, if the animals find poor conditions en route, understand why they will turn back.

Their loss could have far - reaching consequences for the diversity and ecology of arid lands and for local communities dependent on wild - harvested fruit and stems.»

They are endemic to New World arid lands except for one species, Rhipsalis baccifera, which is also found in southern Africa, Madagascar and Sri Lanka.

I always say, just imagine filming The Sound of Music outside of Elko, Nevada, where it's just dry, arid lands covered with sagebrush,» says Harte.

[Box 25] OIS correspondence, 1986 Foreign visitors, 1986 OIS staff meetings, 1986 OIS Committee on Arid Lands, 1986 China Exchange Program, 1986 Hewlett Packard project Interciencia Association Western Hemisphere Climate Program Denise Weiner PREP Meeting, April 1986 PREP, File «A» PREP, File «B» Science, Engineering and Diplomacy Fellows, 1986 Science Attache Programs Science Attache Seminars, File «A» Science Attache Seminars, announcements and invitations Science Attache, general Committee on Public Understanding of Science and Technology, 1986 National Science Week, Ben Franklin Lecture, 1986 National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, 1986 Environmental Science and Engineering Fellows, 1986 Research and Development Budget and Policy Project, 1986 R and D Colloquium, 1986 Dean Wakefield Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows, 1986 Mass Media Office of Opportunities in Science, 1986 Science, Technology and Education Committee on Arms Control and National Security, 1986 Program on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, 1986

[Box 20] AAAS OIS Consortium of Affiliates for Internatioanl Programs, 1977 Consortium of Affiliates for International Programs, 1978 Consortium of Affiliates for International Programs, 1979 Science Attaches, 1978 Science Attaches, 1979 Asian Regional Seminar, 4 - 6 Oct. 1978 Committee on Arid Lands, 1978 Committee on Arid Lands, 1979 UN Conference on Desertification (Nairobi), 1977 Desertification, 1978 Intersciencia Association 1977 1978 1979 Western Hemisphere Conference, 1977 Western Hemisphere Conference, 1978 Western Hemisphere Conference, 1979 UN Conference on Science and Technology for Development 1977 1978 1979 Workshop on Organization Labor, 1979 Workshop on Science and Engineering Societies, 1979 Budget, 1979 «AAAS News» items, 1979 «AAAS News» items, 1980 Personnel, 1977 Administration / Personnel, 1978 Administration / Personnel, 1979 Foreign Travel and Meetings, 1977 Correspondence Misc., 1977 (2 Folders) Misc., 1978 Misc., 1979 General, 1978 General, 1979

Records are related to materials for the Office of International Programs (AAAS Climate Program, AAAS Committee on Arid Lands and the Science, Technology and Development records) and for the AAAS Executive Office.

It is easier to see the harmful effects in parts of the world with very different geography from Canada: the arid lands, where three billion people live.

Self - organized vegetation patterns are widespread in arid lands and elsewhere, and Rietkerk et al. [11]--[12] as well as Couteron and Lejeune [13]--[15] proposed that such patterns are the result of nearby positive and distant negative feedbacks created by plants and physical processes occurring at different scales and intensities.

Zvika Abramsky, Michael L. Rosenzweig & Aziz Subach — 2000 (3)([email protected]) Keywords: arid lands, bioassay, common currency, competition, gerbil, optimal foraging behaviour, sand dunes

««The arid lands of southwestern North America will imminently become even more arid as a result of human - induced climate change just at the time that population growth is increasing demand for water, most of which is still used by agriculture,» said Richard Seager, Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and one of the lead authors of the study.

Like him, it had swirled down from the arid lands of the Khyber and never settled, prowling restlessly in the streets and bazaars as if awaiting a fresh breeze to carry it to some farther, better destination.

On the mainland and offshore islands, across every single ecological niche from the arid lands to our World Heritage rainforests, it's mopping up the remnants of Australia's rich and unique biodiversity.

Ecologist Dr John Read has dissected the gut of almost a thousand feral cats that he's caught over the past 25 years in the South Australian arid lands.

Don't leave town before visiting the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden and taking an Augusta Water Cruise to follow in the wake of Matthew Flinders, the first European to see Upper Spencer Gulf on his epic 1802 voyage.

The California gray whale, by the way, is also known as the desert whale, which I thought was appropriate for the Arid Lands Newsletter!

Arid Recovery is an ecosystem restoration initiative based in the South Australian outback and dedicated to the restoration of Australia's arid lands.

Day One — Travel direct to (0700 departure) Glendambo (or Wirraminna Station) and see Port Augusta, the Arid Lands Botanic Garden and Lake Hart and stay overnight at the desert oasis of Glendambo.

We have time for lunch (own cost) at the Arid Lands Botanical Gardens before travelling via Port Pirie and Port Broughton to Moonta on the Yorke Peninsula.

From the arid lands of the north to lush landscapes in the south.