Sentences with phrase «as with vegetation»

But there's constant exchange of CO2 with the ocean (the major sink), as well as with vegetation.

Not exact matches

They should include small - scale steps, such as removing flammable vegetation, pruning trees, using less - flammable construction materials, and dealing with identified vulnerabilities such as fences.

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.

The Thing as it approached them spread outwards with prodigious rapidity as far as his eye could reach, filling the whole of space, while its feet brushed lightly over the thorny vegetation beside the torrent, its brow rose in the sky like a golden mist with the reddening sun behind it.

As ancient man surveyed his world, he found himself surrounded on all sides with movement and change, not only in fellow - humans, animals and birds, but in running water, scudding clouds, heavenly bodies traveling across the sky, rising dust - storms, the occasionally quaking earth and the vegetation which sprang up, flowered, fruited and died.

In the Ugaritic tests dew was always associated with the restoration of vitality, and consequently played a part in the Baal myth, for the very good reason that in Palestine the night dew assists in keeping vegetation alive during the almost rainless four months of summer.14 Some also regard the reference to Leviathan, «that twisting sea - serpent» and «monster of the deep», in Isaiah 27:1, as an echo of a Phoenician tradition concerning a demonic monster who guarded the gate of the underworld.

This is a greenhouse with constant tropical temperature and humidity levels as well as tropical vegetation, complete with a waterfall, bridges and lagoons.

In other words, a coffee farm with less than 15 percent native vegetation cover could be Rainforest Alliance certified and remain so for years as long as they had a management plan to progressively increase this amount.

As noted in the previous post, the criteria having to do with vertical stratification — the number of layers of vegetation and the leaf volume in each — are critical components for preserving a rich mix of species.

In years of relatively low flow, changes in weir pool levels in conjunction with environmental water use can confer ecological benefits between the river and floodplain, such as nutrient exchange and wetting of fringing vegetation.

With the help participating students, we have been collecting data on vegetation as it relates to salt marshes in coastal Massachusetts since 1996.

For example, presumably, you could have a communist community in an area with unlimited energy - rich wild life and vegetation, warm, stable climate and natural places to live such as caves.

European Rabbits have been introduced as an exotic species into a number of environments, with baleful results to vegetation and local wildlife.

The researchers tested how future precipitation and temperature projections would interact with aspects of the land surface such as vegetation and soil type to affect groundwater recharge during two time intervals: 2021 - 2050 and 2071 - 2100.

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.

Other biopesticides, such as fungal bioherbicides for vegetation management, are being commercialized, with an estimated North American annual market value of $ 48 million.

As people burn forests for agriculture and grazing, as they replace native vegetation with mono - culture crops that discourage cloud formation, they alter the dynamic relationship between the earth's surface and the atmosphere, initiating further drying and warming, and further species losAs people burn forests for agriculture and grazing, as they replace native vegetation with mono - culture crops that discourage cloud formation, they alter the dynamic relationship between the earth's surface and the atmosphere, initiating further drying and warming, and further species losas they replace native vegetation with mono - culture crops that discourage cloud formation, they alter the dynamic relationship between the earth's surface and the atmosphere, initiating further drying and warming, and further species loss.

These areas generate 100 times as much dust as desert covered with vegetation.

City rooftops covered with vegetation are seen as a way to reduce the urban heat - island effect and cut energy usage — but so far, the results have been unimpressive

Since water is a limited resource in many dry ecosystems, such as semi-arid environments and semi-deserts, there is a benefit to vegetation to adapt by forming closer networks with little space between plants.

Renewable energy development could have a similar effect on the land, with large solar farm construction often scraping much of the land of vegetation as well.

Pollen and fossil records suggest that grazing megaherbivores, in the form of mammoths and ground sloths, together with browsers such as mastodons, may have helped maintain the open parkland vegetation that covered much of North America.

«And perhaps more importantly, we caught about twice as many adult Culex mosquitoes in traps at basins after these plants were mowed, compared with basins where the aquatic vegetation was left intact.»

As a result, replanting of riparian vegetation along the rivers as an incentive scheme with local farmers has reduced the flow of these pollutants into the seAs a result, replanting of riparian vegetation along the rivers as an incentive scheme with local farmers has reduced the flow of these pollutants into the seas an incentive scheme with local farmers has reduced the flow of these pollutants into the sea.

The authors found that one single linear relationship can be used to scale SIF to GPP across different vegetation types such as crops, forests and grasslands, which contradicts previous findings obtained with low - resolution data.

In the end, the research suggests that greenery enhanced with carbon nanotubes could potentially produce more from sunlight, air and water, although adding such nanomaterials would be both laborious and may have unknown long - term impacts on the vegetation as a whole as well as on the environment.

As the snow pack begins to recede across the Sierras, now is the time mating pairs of Yosemite toads seek out pools with the right mix of length and width, depth, vegetation and temperature to bring forth the next generation of toadlets.

As the researchers reported online last month in Environmental Science & Technology, this kind of bacteria thrives in the waterlogged sediments, rich with decaying vegetation, that pile up behind beaver dams.

For the study, Gentine and Lemordant took Earth system models with decoupled surface (vegetation physiology) and atmospheric (radiative) CO2 responses and used a multi-model statistical analysis from CMIP5, the most current set of coordinated climate model experiments set up as an international cooperation project for the International Panel on Climate Change.

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.

Besides, researchers found that a roof with a high density vegetation works as a passive cooling system, in fact, the energy released from the building through the roof during the summer is a 9 % of the incoming energy during the same period.

NEON collects and produces data on precipitation patterns, soil and groundwater dynamics, interactions with vegetation, and processes such as nutrient cycling and food web dynamics in aquatic ecosystems to support the comprehensive study of water cycles throughout diverse ecosystems.

As we have discussed previously, the last glacial period is a good example of a large forcing (~ 7 W / m2 from ice sheets, greenhouse gases, dust and vegetation) giving a large temperature response (~ 5 ºC) and implying a sensitivity of about 3ºC (with substantial error bars).

Urban heat islands are the result of replacing the natural landscape, such as vegetation and waterways, with heat - absorbing materials like concrete or asphalt.

Measures such as reforestation, creating hillside terraces, maintaining continuous soil cover with vegetation and mulches, and reclaiming gullies can help protect the soil from heavy rain.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

Land degradation in the drylands, commonly known as desertification, begins with the clearing of vegetation, which means «forests are the first step towards healing the drylands and protecting them from desertification and drought,» as Mr. Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) observes.

Unless you use ashes of wood, sea vegetation in your soil and with your food, as all healthy cultures past & present have done, and farm on silt rich bottom land or rich glacial soil you will be mineral deficient & no amount of partial supplementation or fat soluble vitamins will wotk.

Lovely pond with ducks and water vegetation... lovely garden as well... the perfect place to save money as there are no shopping facilities around!!

Many many bugs big letdown the graphics are truly awsome and the same with geological layout such as vegetation and buildings.

Although the duo is quick to «get with the beat», their lackadaisical lifestyle lands them in plenty of hot water as they make their way through the labyrinth of vegetation filled with musical misadventures and narrow escapes.

The drainage basin as an open system with inputs (precipitation of varying type and intensity), outputs (evaporation and transpiration), flows (infiltration, throughflow, overland flow and base flow) and stores (including vegetation, soil, aquifers and the cryosphere)

Just as a lake with heavier vegetation provides a more fertile environment for fish to thrive, we believe the small - cap universe provides fertile ground for finding highly mispriced stocks.

Coastal Trail at Muir Beach >> As part of the larger Redwood Creek Restoration Project, this segment was transformed into a sustainable, multi-use trail and adjacent habitat areas restored with native vegetation.

Each villa is set in harmony with the natural vegetation, ensuring total privacy as well as ocean views

Each villa is completely screened from view by careful siting in harmony with the natural vegetation, ensuring total privacy as well as ocean views.

The whole Trails» network that connects the Incan City of Machu Picchu and other archaeological compounds has a construction design in strict harmony with the natural surroundings and landscape, as great stretches of the trails are ledges, at the edge of deep abysses, surrounded by exuberant vegetation, with stairs carved in live rock.

The rich vegetation that lines these waterways teems with wildlife and tropical birds, and we can expect to see species such as kingfishers, ospreys, snail kites, and Jabiru storks.

However the changes in the vegetation and landscape as you climb through different climatic zones will keep you involved with the hike and focussed on discovering more as you climb.