Sentences with phrase «different vegetation pattern»

It is much higher and supports a much different vegetation pattern.

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The scientific literature contains two different mechanisms for a similar pattern — one stems from vegetation self - organizing in response to limited rainfall, and the other results from bustling termite mounds improving the lives of nearby plants.

«By understanding the patterns of the vegetation and termite mounds over different moisture zones, we can project how the landscape might change with climate change,» said Greg Asner, a scientist at Carnegie.

Self - organized vegetation patterns are widespread in arid lands and elsewhere, and Rietkerk et al. [11]--[12] as well as Couteron and Lejeune [13]--[15] proposed that such patterns are the result of nearby positive and distant negative feedbacks created by plants and physical processes occurring at different scales and intensities.

Furnace Creek Ranch / Greenland Ranch is, and has been, an oasis area with a variety of different ground covers, and with an assortment of buildings and vegetation which have significant effects on the local temperature patterns on sunny summer days.

Thirty years to establish a climate state seems a long time, as within that period there may be notable shifts to a number of different prevailing patterns of cold / warmth / wet or drought that, on a human scale affects agriculture and horticulture by impacting on what crops may be grown successfully, may affect the tourism season, may cause a consumer to use more or less energy in their home, and also impact on nature by affecting the populations of wild life and vegetation.