Sentences with phrase «conditions for vegetation»

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The purpose of the watering was to contribute to environmental outcomes such as supporting the condition of floodplain trees, understorey vegetation and submerged plant communities and to provide habitat for bird and frog species.

The use of environmental water will help to contribute towards improving native vegetation condition, reducing the local impacts of salinity and supporting waterbirds and frogs that rely on the region's wetlands for reproduction and survival.

In addition to the volume released from Hume Dam, return flows and the Commonwealth's 151 GL of held South Australian allocation were delivered directly to the South Australian border to meet environmental demands in the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes and Coorong, and provide suitable habitat conditions (both salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation species.

In addition to this volume released from Hume Dam and the volume approved for the Coorong, return flows and the Commonwealth's 134 GL of held South Australian allocation were delivered directly to the South Australian border for meeting environmental demands in the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes Coorong and providing suitable habitat conditions (salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation species.

A total of 367 GL of Commonwealth environmental water was released from Hume Dam to support in - channel, wetland and low elevation floodplain habitat throughout the River Murray for improving the condition, movement and recruitment of native fish — both silver (critically endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999) and golden perch were detected spawning in the Mid Murray in response to flow variability; improve riparian and wetland vegetation condition; and contribute to the managed export of salt from the River Murray system.

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.

«For example, improving vegetation condition is a naturally slow process but monitoring in the Goulburn River found environmental flows during summer 2014 and autumn 2015 had encouraged bank - stabilising plant growth,» he said.

«We will evaluate these responses for the first time at a regional scale using remotely sensed indicators of vegetation condition and fire - induced tree mortality to measure the response of floodplain forests to inter-annual flood variability and extreme climate events,» said Marcia Macedo, a research associate at the Woods Hole Research Center.

However, the changes in climatic conditions arising from climate change could represent a far more important factor here: i.e. temperatures that increasingly exceed the optimum level for plant growth, like those experienced this summer, shifts in the vegetation periods, and more frequent droughts.

Using NASA rain and vegetation data, researchers can track when and where arid lands begin to green, and for the first time anticipate if zebras will make the trek or, if the animals find poor conditions en route, understand why they will turn back.

Pixel by pixel analysis of vegetation changes from week to week to give an early warning for the outbreaks of drought, hazardous fire conditions, or even when malaria may break out in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Then, comparing the environmental conditions such as climate, vegetation and human impact at these locations to sites across tropical Africa where there was an absence of apes, the researchers were able to more precisely calculate the «suitable environmental conditions» — or habitat — necessary for apes to live.

It took Asner and his team eight years to develop a technique that can detect and quantify selective logging by analyzing each pixel in the image for spectral data — which contains information about the extent of vegetation in the forest canopy, the amount of debris on the forest floor and how much bare soil is exposed — while also taking into consideration climate conditions.

«Visible or near - infrared bands typically used for crop monitoring are mainly sensitive to the upper canopy, but provide little information about deeper vegetation and soil conditions affecting crop water status and yield,» says John Kimball from University of Montana, a long - term collaborator with Guan and a coauthor of the paper.

Covering city buildings in vegetation — creating «green roofs» and walls — could substantially save energy by reducing the need for air conditioning on hot days, say researchers.

For example, with changes in temperature and precipitation, ecosystems within Montana may shift to drier conditions resulting in changes to vegetation types.

Located in the heart of the Visayas, at the end of Panglao, the Ananyana Beach Resort Bohol is just a 20 - minute drive by car from the airport of Tagbilaran.You will also find selected international as well as national air and ferry connections for a comfortable journey from the Ananyana Beach Resort.All the suites at the Ananyana are a synthesis of safety and longing of wanderlust and home.Bohemian bathrooms as well as puristic appearing premises create the perfect aura for a vacation abounding in an otherwise rather rare condition, carefree relaxation.The hotel offers a breathtaking view from the balcony or patio of the impressive vegetation and the crystal clear ocean.

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Shallow waters make conditions excellent for swimming, and the lush vegetation that borders the beaches can be very picturesque indeed.

This incredible art - studded wonderland of tropical vegetation provides the perfect setting and working conditions for high - carat artists from all over the world.

So for the policy - relevant issues, we generally focus on the physical atmosphere - ocean system, sometimes with coupled carbon - vegetation system, and treat the major ice sheets, orbital parameters and planetary topography as fixed boundary conditions.

Spatial analogues have also been exploited along altitudinal gradients to project vegetation composition, snow conditions for skiing, and avalanche risk (e.g., Beniston and Price, 1992; Holten and Carey, 1992; Gyalistras et al., 1997).

Between the heat and the dry vegetation conditions, conditions are ripe for wildfires, which have broken out in multiple states, and Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned yesterday that global warming will mean even more extreme weather events.

And compare that to the CO2 levels for the same days at Mauna Loa (or you can take data from anyware, away from local sources): Note: while we used the same scale as for Diekirch, the MLO data are the raw hourly CO2 levels, without pre - or postprocessing, thus including local influences of upwind conditions (depleted by vegetation at about -2 ppmv).

The director of ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Andy Pitman, said global warming meant warmer winters, which would create vegetation conditions suitable for fires.

«For a given wind farm, the inhibiting effect should be quantified by fully considering local background environmental factors (e.g., temperature and soil moisture) and the recovery of vegetation with different vegetation conditions.

Wetlands are characterized by a prevalence of vegetation adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.

For Mauna Loa, that are volcanic vents at downwind conditions (+4 ppmv) and depletion by vegetation with upwind conditions.

On a regional basis for clear - sky daytime conditions, conversion of natural vegetation to a crop / pasture mosaic warms the cerrado by an average of 1.55 °C, but subsequent conversion of that mosaic to sugar cane cools the region by an average of 0.93 °C (1.67 °F), resulting in a mean net increase of 0.6 °C.

The methanogenic community included genera capable of both AM and HM, indicating that methanogens could potentially use different carbon substrates and thus acclimate to changing conditions, for example vegetation cover or hydrology, under a warmer climate.

The hotter and drier conditions were a recipe for more wildfires — with lightning strikes igniting more easily in drier soils and vegetation, and higher temperatures spreading the flames.

In these cases, the prevailing dry conditions set the stage for the heat since the land is dried out, the vegetation is wilted, and all of the heat from the sun goes into raising temperatures, whereas ordinarily, in the process of evaporative cooling, surface water or wetness acts as an evaporative cooler (swamp cooler) of sorts.