Sentences with phrase «example vegetation cover»
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.
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Vegetation productivity or leaf cover can, for example, be measured across continents from space while providing information about biodiversity levels on the ground.
contain superlative natural phenomena, formations or features or areas of exceptional natural beauty, such as superlative examples of the most important ecosystems, natural features, spectacles presented by great concentra - tions of animals, sweeping vistas covered by natural vegetation and exceptional combinations of natural and cultural elements, or
The biosphere consists of animals and vegetation and normally changes relatively slowly; reduced rainfall might take years to alter vegetation cover significantly, although certain components (such as humankind) are capable of inducing quite rapid local changes (by setting oil - fields ablaze, for example).
Rainfall change and variability is very likely to affect vegetation in tropical grassland and savanna systems with, for example, a reduction in cover and productivity simulated along an aridity gradient in southern African savanna in response to the observed drying trend of about 8 mm / yr since 1970 (Woodward and Lomas, 2004a).