Sentences with phrase «contribution of these small areas»

In 2002 35 percent of the total area cleared of trees consisted of land swaths smaller than 0.5 square kilometer, whereas by 2010, the contribution of these small areas to the overall deforestation number increased to 80 percent.

Not exact matches

Commonwealth environmental water from entitlements upstream of the Selected Area in Queensland made a small (4 %) contribution to flows down the Warrego River zone for around 16 days in February / March 2016.

Looking back on a season of wholesale change and no small bit of success, many of the key contributions came from wide areas.

Indeed, several admixture scenarios [44], [45] and selection at linked sites are expected to generate an excess of high frequency derived alleles, but the observation that most islands of differentiation are not enriched for high frequency derived alleles suggests that selection at linked sites is likely to have a relatively small contribution overall to the occurrence of areas of high differentiation.

Fostering this small but thriving community of artists, curators, and writers is only one of Spertus» contributions to Bay Area arts and culture.

If there is some CSD for which the vertical intensity (up, down, net) reaches a maximum or minimum, then the flux (up, down, net, respectively) per unit area, having contributions from intensities in all directions, each in proportion to the cosine of the angle from vertical, will reach a maximum or minimum at a somewhat smaller CSD, while intensities at sufficiently large angles will reach a maximum or minimum at even smaller CSD.

This may be reasonable in isolated island areas with small local grids, where the cost of undersea grid links to the main land, to export occasional excess power, is very high, and it does mean that more / new renewable capacity can be added to supply a larger contribution at other times.

In contrast to the polar regions, the network of lower latitude small glaciers and ice caps, although making up only about four percent of the total land ice area or about 760,000 square kilometers, may have provided as much as 60 percent of the total glacier contribution to sea level change since 1990s (Meier et al. 2007).

Childhood friendships also made a small unique contribution to «general self - worth» in adulthood, but this measure was an assessment of self - perceived competence in eight different areas, five of which would be affected by success in the relationship domain.