Sentences with phrase «diversity of vegetation»

The great diversity of vegetation and topography in this compact area, together with its relatively undisturbed condition, led to its selection as... one of our remaining wildlife and wilderness frontiers.»

Walking Tracks: Magnetic Island features an extensive 25 km network of walking trails making it one of the best ways to thoroughly explore the Island, enjoy some amazing scenery and appreciate the diversity of vegetation from one side of the island to the other.

Two of Fraser Island's unique features are its diversity of vegetation and its ability to sustain this vegetation in sand, a soil that is notoriously low in nutrients essential to plant growth.

They can stimulate vegetation regeneration, promote a diversity of vegetation types, provide habitat for many species and sustain other ecosystem services, such as nutrient cycling.

Not exact matches

increased cover and diversity of in - stream aquatic vegetation, particularly in areas of the Wakool River downstream of the confluence with Yallakool Creek

supporting ecosystem recovery by improving the diversity, condition and extent of native vegetation

Spring environmental flows improved native vegetation abundance and diversity along areas of riverbank.

Farms with shade - tolerant crops have at least 15 % total native vegetation coverage across the farm or groups of farms or a shade canopy fulfilling the SAN canopy cover and species diversity parameters.

The study, «Response of understory vegetation to salvage logging following a high - severity wildfire,» reports a modest difference between logged and unlogged areas for some shrubs, but researchers with the agency's Pacific Southwest Research Station conclude the diversity of plant species and their abundance, as a whole, differed little between logged and unlogged sites.

«This study is further evidence that the diversity and makeup of the vegetation, and the soil organisms beneath our feet are vitally important in controlling how much carbon is locked up or released from these carbon rich ecosystems.»

«In the mountains we found healthy vegetation and a great variety of crops, high diversity of invertebrates and greater earthworm biomass, which was estimated at more than 33 grams per square meter,» highlights Huerta Lwanga.

«During the fieldwork I realized that the orchards whose owners had family harmony, were characterized by a rich vegetation and greater diversity of soil invertebrates was found.

Technically referred to as high - diversity vegetation patches, they offer refuge to a range of beneficial insects, spiders, and birds that protect the neighboring rice from hungry pests.

You will be amazed at the diversity of marine life you may find in these calm shallow waters, as well as plenty of sea turtles feeding on the bay's vegetation.

Along the way your experienced local guide will bring to life the diversity of the landscape, vegetation and wildlife.

Enjoy the best golf experience you have ever had at this magnificent golf course, par 72 with a distance of 7,144 yards, surrounded by a diversity of lakes and the most exuberant vegetation that can only be found in the Mexican Caribbean.

The Playacar Spa & Golf Club is located in the Playa del Carmen Hotel Zone, known as Playacar, just 35 miles south of Cancun International Airport.Enjoy the best golf experience you have ever had at this magnificent golf course, par 72 with a distance of 7,144 yards, surrounded by a diversity of lakes and the most exuberant vegetation that can only be found in the Mexican Caribbean.

Coastal & marine conservation volunteers will also experience the Pego Wetland Natural Park, where volunteers will find a great diversity of birds and endemic vegetation in one of the most amazing places in Spain.

The dense vegetation on the rocks gives rise to a large diversity of life.

The thing that gets me in that state of «damn, I love this country,» every single time I travel in South Africa is that there will always be a surprise waiting just around the next corner; it's a bubbling fountain of diversity, whether it is the terrain, climate, cultures, vegetation, people, wildlife or landscapes, I'm constantly jaw - on - the - floor amazed!

Marvel at the diversity of land formations, take note of the different vegetation that occurs on the original seabed and search for ancient fossils.

Designed by the internationally renowned architectural firm De Yturbe Arquitectos, the 9.5 - acres property spreads over a hill teeming with the lush, thriving vegetation of the rainforest and the diversity of jungle creatures.

The middle latitudes of the world — between the tropic lines (Cancer and Capricorn) and the polar circles (Arctic and Antarctic)-- have seasons of weather and a wide diversity of landscapes and vegetation.

These stem from a diversity of site - specific conditions, including, but not limited to: local vegetation; presence of building structures and contributions made by such structures involving energy use, heating and air conditioning, etc; exposure to winds, the wind velocities determined by climatic factors and also whether certain wind directions are more favored than others by terrain or the presence or absence thereof to bodies of water; proximity to grass, asphalt, concrete or other material surfaces; the physical conditions of the CRS itself which include: the exact location of the temperature sensors within it, the degree of unimpeded flow of external air through the CRS, the character of the paint used; the exact height of the instrument above the external surface (noting that when the ground is covered by 3 feet of snow, the temperature instrument is about 60 % closer to, or less than 2 feet, above an excellent radiating surface, much closer than it would be under snow - free conditions).

University of Virginia terrestrial ecologist Howie Epstein has won a $ 607,000 NASA grant to use Earth - observing satellite data to assess how vegetation diversity is changing in the Arctic tundra.