More intact buildings, as well
as desert vegetation.
Not exact matches
To the sophisticated European, America must appear
as a
desert, a
desert shorn of the
vegetation of history.
These areas generate 100 times
as much dust
as desert covered with
vegetation.
Last year was a record one for dust production in the United States, when sparse and badly timed
desert rains produced the lowest
vegetation cover on record and 5 to 20 times
as much dust
as usual from the Colorado Plateau into the mountains.
In the «business
as usual» case, all of southern Spain turns into
desert, deciduous forests invade most of the mountains, and shrubland
vegetation replaces most of the deciduous forests in a large part of the Mediterranean basin.
Some parts of snow leopard habitat, such
as the massifs of the Gobi
Desert of Mongolia are virtually devoid of
vegetation.
I think of veiled chameleons
as the bulldogs of the chameleon world — sturdy, dependable animals that, due to being high
desert dwellers, can take a wide fluctuation of temperatures (from blazing heat in the day to cool at night), and consume a surprisingly broad diet, including some
vegetation.
Nations that could be described
as almost -
desert would get the kind of rainfall expected in central Nigeria or northern Cameroon, where the
vegetation is rich and vigorous.
PV can also utilize areas that do not naturally support much (if any)
vegetation, such
as deserts, dry lands, and rooftops.
The
desert surface was scraped clean of
vegetation as a preparation for the project.
Some of what's left can be stored in soils,
as vegetation in restored woodlands or in reclaimed
deserts — making inroads into emissions from land use and forestry.
Earth System Models are mathematical descriptions of the real world at the cutting edge of understanding how our planet works and the links between the main components of the oceans,
vegetation, ice and
desert, gases in the atmosphere, and the carbon cycle,
as well
as numerous other components.