Sentences with phrase «changes in land use when»

No longer tended and watered, those orchards and fields are now fuel for fires, so communities have to account for such changes in land use when planning for future fire risks.

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«When combined with other threats, such as land use, climate change, cats, and buildings, it's no wonder we're seeing such strong declines in so many bird species across the United States.»

In addition, when correlations were constrained to the time period that satellite burned area observations were available from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)(2001 - 2012), and thus where estimates of land - use change carbon emissions were more certain2, correlations between fire weather season length, long fire season affected area and net land carbon fluxes increased substantially to ρ = − 0.797 and ρ = − 0.825, respectively, n = 12, P < 0.01).

Our research goes to show that we should be more prudent in labeling a species «invasive» or non-native when the evidence for anthropogenic introduction is poor», says Pfenninger and adds: «Perhaps the rapid increase in Spanish slugs we have seen in the last decades is caused by changes of land use practice.

It can also be used to gain a CREST award Students initially look at some of the problems caused by climate change then design and make a model of their solution to a problem faced by farmers in Bangladesh... how to grow food even when the land floods.

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we all know the dream valley music is all wrong and that is due to the 3ds version being linked to the action of changing music only on transformations, not when its suppose to and everyone knows this but in places like graffiti city, rogues landing, race of ages, and addars laire, if you end an all star move in flight section, «lost music» comes back.though in places like seasonal shrines it's on a continous loop whereas you use an all star move at just the right time, you hear a second of japenosque, then it goes back to it's continuous loop and starts the music over again.

When full consideration is given, including impacts on soils, fertilizer use and both direct and indirect land use change, bioenergy processes are, in reality, far from «neutral».

Since these emissions occur upstream in a company's supply chain (e.g. land - use change associated with the procurement of raw materials) or downstream in customer's use products (e.g. the energy used when a consumer plugs in a company's phone or refrigerates their food products), they are difficult to tackle in the short - term.

When the land changes use, some of its carbon is lost to the atmosphere through burning and decay, and some of it stays in the soil.

For example, a 2012 study headed by Michael Wang of the Argonne National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy projected that the corn - based ethanol found at practically all U.S. fuel pumps would cut carbon emissions by around 34 percent in 2015 (Table 7), even when considering changes in land use.

The natural variation that has led us out of the Little Ice Age has a bit of frosting on the cake by land use; and, part of that land use has resulted in a change in vegetation and soil CO2 loss so that we see a rise in CO2 and the CO2 continues to rise without a temperature accompaniment (piano player went to take a leak), as the land use has all but gobbled up most of the arable land North of 30N and we are starting to see low till farming and some soil conservation just beginning when the soil will again take up the CO2, and the GMO's will increase yields, then CO2 will start coming down on its own and we can go to bed listening to Ave Maria to address another global crisis to get the populous all scared begging governments to tell us much ado about... nothing.

When caused by land use changes it is a forcing factor, but in natural processes I think it is more of a feedback than a root cause of changes.

Social issues that commonly occur when natural vegetation is replaced with commercially managed crops may also arise as a result of changes in property and land - use rights.

Many negotiators tell Ecosystem Marketplace that REDD itself is no longer a contentious issue, but that things get hairy when they try to digest the decision made in Bali to expand the land - use debate from REDD alone into broader issues of «conservation, sustainable management of forests, changes in forest cover and associated carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks to enhance action on mitigation of climate change and to the consideration of reference levels.»

This has been shown repeatedly at http://wattsupwiththat.com/ and in the paper by NOAA scientists http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2006GL026358.shtml showing that when land use changes occur around US climate stations, it causes a warm bias 95 % of the time.

In their study, land - use change from the natural to the current global landscape produced a global average RCCP of 0.7 W m − 2 when teleconnection effects were not included, and 8.9 - 9.5 W m − 2 when teleconnections were included.

It's only when deforestation and other land use changes made a net shift of carbon in the short term carbon cycle from plants back into the atmosphere, that humans began to make a net positive return of CO2 into the atmosphere (although deforestation is essentially reversible in principle), and it's very true to point out that industrial scale animal husbandry with its high cost in fossil - fuel - derived energy does mean that what might otherwise be a relatively closed system of cycling CO2 from the atmosphere through plants and then animals and back to the atmosphere, does become net positive with respect to CO2 emissions.

When either the ratio of changes since preindustrial in GMST and iRF are used instead of regression, as for ERF, or the regression best - fit lines are required to pass through the origin, substantially different iRF efficacy estimates are obtained for the forcings for land - use change, ozone, solar and volcanoes.

Therefore, any theoretical possibility of changes like those in LU run 1 occurring in the real world seems irrelevant when estimating the effects of land use change on deriving TCR and ECS values from recorded warming over the historical period.

That's essential information because when land - use change occurs, much of that standing carbon stock can be released to the atmosphere,» says Daniel Donato, a postdoctoral research ecologist at the Pacific Southwest Research Station in Hilo, Hawaii.

However, two recent papers published in Science, including the one we discussed in our post, have pointed out that when you take into account land use changes, the global warming pollution benefit of corn ethanol is negligible or not a benefit at all but a negative (researcher Joseph Fargione's team found that most biofuels «create a «biofuel carbon debt» by releasing 17 to 420 times more CO2 than the annual greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions that these biofuels would provide by displacing fossil fuels.»)

Deforestation and changes in land use contribute significantly to global climate change due to the release of carbon dioxide when forests and forest products are burned.

However, the ALRA (NT) does provide for flexibility and change in Aboriginal aspirations and needs, 92 through existing rights to grant leases and other interests in Aboriginal freehold land, even though improving the economic lot of Aboriginal people was not an initial purpose of the Act.93 The leasing provision of the ALRA (NT) have been described as a means by which Indigenous people connected in a traditional way with the land are legally able to use their country in a non-traditional way if and when an Aboriginal consensus to do so exists.

This is especially true in the case of large development projects because, although banks focus on the purchase price of the property, hard money lenders are able to take into consideration the effects of any approvals (such as zoning, land use, or density changes) that have already been obtained on the value of the property when they determine the LTV for the loan.

Assessed values may change when there is new construction, additions, remodeling or changes in land use.