Sentences with phrase «because vegetation covers»
But more important, late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils in Africa had long eluded paleontologists, partly because vegetation covers much of the land where they might be found there, the museum stated.
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Regarding coffee certifications, Coffee & Conservation has been primarily concerned with criteria defining «shade» because those are the guidelines for canopy cover, vegetation structure, and tree species that promote biodiversity - friendly conditions.
«In Japan, many important vertebrate fossils have been discovered by amateurs because most of the land is covered with vegetation, and there are few exposures of fossil - bearing Cretaceous rocks.
Tropical forests are especially important because, even though they cover only 7 percent of the Earth's surface, they contain the largest vegetation carbon stocks, and are also important carbon sinks.
only 40 % can be appreciated because the rest is still covered by vegetation and time.
It happens because a long time ago those places were covered by luxuriant green vegetation that does not exist anymore.
Finally I attempt a suggestion that perhaps one solution to the problem that the solar impact on climate is underestimated by models might be because EBM and GCM, like GISS, do not contain CO2 and CH4 cycle mechanisms that might be partially effected by the Sun, and other mechanisms are missing or uncertain (water vapor, cloud cover, vegetation, bacteria respiration, UV radiation, cosmic ray effects etc.).
«A web - based application such as this one is useful because government officials and civil society can check the location, shape and size of the fire scars, whether the fires occurred in moratorium areas, concessions or in vegetation cover before - and - after - fire — crucial information for field investigations,» he said
I wonder why only five weather stations out of ~ 6000 were chosen... - gavin] Because in all probability there are only five rural, continental US stations with data from 1905 to 2003 which can be guaranteed to have not to have suffered changes in building cover, vegetation, irrigation,..
Radiation feedbacks depend on vegetation or cloud cover that has changed because of changing surface temperatures or moisture conditions.
... The judges admired this winning design because it addressed both these conditions; by emphasising a cut between buildings with the introduction of vegetation beams (in this case covered in moss), the architect has neatly reversed the stereotype of that conventional Tokyo condition.