Sentences with phrase «by vegetating»

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.»

Now what Savory is advocating is to use land that is currently a net emissions source due to land use change resulting in desertification, and add that newly restored land to the Gross uptake of Carbon by all vegetated lands.

Not exact matches

«A Vegetated Christ & a Virgin Eve are the Hermaphroditic Blasphemy; by his Maternal Birth he is that Evil - One And his Maternal Humanity must be put off Eternally, Lest the Sexual Generation swallow up Regeneration.

They estimate that, across about 60 % of the global vegetated area, greening has buffered warming by about 14 %; for the remaining areas, which mostly include boreal zones, LAI trends have amplified the raise in air temperatures, leading to an additional warming of about 10 %.

The results indicated the soil chemistry and root - zone nutrient budgets have been altered by the Acacia tree cover, and the trajectory of change is in a direction that does not conform to any of the naturally vegetated sites from Guam.

By examining an old crevasse along Bayou Lafourche, a precursor of the Mississippi River, the researchers found that mud can build enough land to keep up with sea level rise if the diversion flows into existing vegetated areas protected from marine forces.

Since sediment carried by Bayou Lafourche 1,200 to 600 years ago only contained about 20 percent sand, but an abundance of mud, the researchers suggest that land building can be maximized by gearing muddy diversions toward vegetated areas rather than to capture sandy deposits along the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

While most of the region endured dry, freezing weather, pockets of «refugia,» or vegetated areas not affected by climate change, remained scattered along the Bering land bridge throughout the LGM period.

Leandro Silveira, president of the Jaguar Conservation Fund, said the big cats used to be persecuted by cattle ranchers, but his research on radio - collared animals has shown that the cats are able to prowl through cane thickets and find refuge in vegetated watercourses.

Further, all data sets were masked using the vegetated (burnable) land area defined by a global landcover data set developed from AVHRR satellite data67.

Note the narrow and shallow trough drainages slightly eroded by seasonal rainwater and snowmelt and the intact, uneroded vegetated rises between them, the latter similar to those containing the archaeological horizons reported here in the buried sandur plain at Monte Verde.

The liberators are deeply shocked by what they see - thousand of emaciated human beings are vegetating between life and death.

Prevention of this infection can be done by managing the outdoor environment of the dog and by not allowing him to spend time in soil - rich, decayed, vegetated areas.

«At Crissy [Field Wildlife Protection Area], we'll see the plovers out on the open beach by the water sometimes, and other times they are in the vegetated dunes,» Merkle says.

The lovely sandy cove beach just off the park is backed by hills vegetated by salal, ferns and sitka spruce.

The town is surrounded by glistening lakes, vegetated sand dunes, dense pine plantations, the Swartvlei Estuary, and the warm Indian Ocean.

Michaelmas Cay is a small, vegetated sand island surrounded by a spectacular fringing reef.

Ridley claimed that Myneni had found that 31 % of the Earth's vegetated land had «greened» between 1982 and 2011, and that there had been an increase in gross productivity by 14 %, about half of which could be attributed to carbon dioxide fertilization.

Roughly three - quarters of the world's vegetated land is already being used to meet people's need for food and forest products, and that demand is expected to rise by 70 percent or more by 2050.

Following glacial retreat, sparsely vegetated landscapes were colonized first by spruce parkland and then by closed subalpine forests.

Their results show that the fire season has lengthened by an average of 19 % for a quarter of the global vegetated area.

«The Development of Revolutionary Large Scale Vegetated Infrastructure Projects in Latin America and the Foundation of a New Industry» by Pablo Atuesta.

Ridley said Myneni had found that 31 % of the Earth's vegetated land had «greened» between 1982 and 2011, and that there had been an increase in gross productivity by 14 %, about half of which could be attributed to carbon dioxide fertilization.

Most of the energy transfer from the surface of this rather wet globe is accomplished by evaporation, and heavily so in vegetated areas on land.

In the real world, we would expect the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to be nearly eliminated and replaced by partially vegetated surfaces already at 2 × CO2 (620 ppm) equilibrium climate.

Contrary to our experience on Isabela, Fernandina is sparsely vegetated, and by mostly mangroves in a ring around the island.

Green roofs are defined by the GSA as vegetated roofs consisting of «a waterproofing membrane, growing medium (soil) and vegetation (plants) overlying a traditional roof.»