Sentences with phrase «forest areas we studied»

The burn duration has increased steadily decade by decade as well, and in each of the five forest areas we studied.

The burn duration has increased steadily decade by decade as well, and in each of the five forest areas we studied.

Not exact matches

Dinosaur - Era Climate Change Study Suggests Reasons for Turtle Disappearance Mar. 14, 2013 — The dry, barren prairie around Alberta's Drumheller area was once a lush and subtropical forest on the shores of a large inland sea, with loads of wetlands inhabited by dinosaurs, turtles, crocodiles and small mammals.

Lessons will be developed to study and analyze actual environmental problems in the area by working with the DuPage County Forest Preserve District, Wheaton Park District, Fermilab and The Conservation Foundation, a group concerned with ecology.

The authors of the study suspect that the mountain pastures, which many hundreds of years ago also used to be wooded areas before the advent of alpine farming, must have lost a considerable portion of their original humus stock relatively soon after the forests had been cleared to make room for the pastures.

I participated in an integrated study of the Lama Forest that considered ecological and socio - economic aspects and contributed to the conservation of the forest and the rehabilitation of degraded Forest that considered ecological and socio - economic aspects and contributed to the conservation of the forest and the rehabilitation of degraded forest and the rehabilitation of degraded areas.

«One of the toughest challenges of lung cancer is what to do for patients when the cancer comes back in an area that's been treated previously with radiation treatment,» said James J. Urbanic, M.D., lead author of the studies and a radiation oncologist at Wake Forest Baptist.

Scientists travelled to Peninsular Malaysia where they spent two years studying communities of frog species in four oil palm plantations and two areas of adjacent forest.

One of the two studies looked at all major forest and soil types across the entire 1,700 square mile area of the Bavarian Alps between 1986 and 2011.

For example, 10 of the 14 burned areas in the study, which include well - known wildfires like the Moonlight (2007) and Power (2009) fires, did not meet Forest Service stocking density thresholds for mixed conifer forests, making them good candidates for replanting and restoration efforts.

A study spanning 10 national forests and 14 burned areas in California found that conifer seedlings were found in less than 60 percent of the study areas five to seven years after fire.

The lidar - based tools developed in the study have the potential to assist in these tasks, since the laser scans are obtained throughout entire forest areas, providing high - resolution maps of changes within small forest areas.

Based on nearly one million individually mapped rural households, the study shows that the total remaining forest area affected by hunting far exceeds the total area that has been deforested to date.

The science program currently supports a wide area of research, including airborne measures of Alaska's interior forests, prototype methane monitors for California regulators, satellite - based assessments of farming emissions, and studies of forest fires in the Amazon basin.

But if proposed protections are put in place, the study projects a much smaller area of forest would be lost — 41,650 square kilometers, over 113,000 square kilometers less than under the agricultural development scenario.

Paulo Moutinho and his colleagues at UFPA studied an area of forest that was cleared 16 years ago.

But a new study reveals that subsistence hunters from small communities in large areas of intact forest and with access to healthy fish stocks do not appear to be emptying their forests.

«The lower capacity of floodplain forests to recover suggests that these areas can be trapped by recurrent fires in an open vegetation state more easily than the uplands,» says Milena Holmgren of Wageningen University & Research and a coauthor of the study.

«Together with a 50 - hectare permanent plot in the Danum valley conservation area and the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, the SAFE project means that we can now study the entire gamut of land use in the region, from pristine forest to fragmented forest and restored forest, to oil palm plantation.

By 2090, the area burned by forest fires in the European Union could increase by 200 % because of climate change, according to a new study published in the journal Regional Environmental Change.

«In more populous areas, the chance of occurrence of forest fires rises dramatically,» says IIASA researcher Andrey Krasovskii, a study co-author.

With the data they simulated 130 years of growth following the Yellowstone Fires using a computer model calibrated to the study area and used by forest and land managers around the U.S., called the Forest Vegetation Simuforest and land managers around the U.S., called the Forest Vegetation SimuForest Vegetation Simulator.

The study showed that climate change affects technical accessibility of forests in the study area and consequently economic sustainability of the logging companies.

Assistant Professor Yuzo Miyazaki of Hokkaido University, who led the research, said «In recent years, some studies have pointed out that the amount of organics emitted from the forest floor is similar to, or even larger than, that emitted from tree leaves in cool - temperate or other higher - latitude forested areas.

The researchers studying the Rim Fire, which in 2013 burned nearly 400 square miles of forest in the Sierra Nevadas, found the blaze was less severe in areas recently treated with controlled burns.

Then there are independent organisations such as the Institute of Amazonian Studies in Curitiba, the SOS Mata Atlantica, which is campaigning to save what remains of the Atlantic forest, and the Biodiversities Foundation in Belo Horizonte, which is trying to save various species and has sought to turn environmentally important areas into reserves.

Researchers studied a whole river catchment in the New Forest over an area of 100 square kilometres, upstream of the town of Brockenhurst.

While a report this week celebrates a 50 per cent increase in the area of tropical forests that are sustainably managed, other studies suggest this assessment is open to question.

For the first time, this study allowed researchers to analyse the effects of the climate change on the forest nutrient cycles, and states that Pyrenean forests can register these episodes chemical mark at a global scale (for instance, volcanic eruptions in remote areas) and the effects of gas emissions into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.

Monitoring remains an important tool to provide early warnings of forests at risk of reaching a tipping point, and the results of this study can inform and focus conservation and management decisions in areas of concern.

The study of the effects of climate change in this area and historical variation of chemical elements in trees can highly contribute to discover the potential effects that could stand many of the coniferous forests in the 21st century, according to the authors.

In a new study published in the African Journal of Ecology, scientists advocate the temporary removal of lianas in selected areas to help tropical forests grow back.

In a new study published in Landscape and Urban Planning, researchers show that areas in the eastern U.S. with high deer numbers tend to have fewer birds that need forest shrubs.

A recent study found that between 2000 and 2012, nearly 15 million acres of natural forest was lost, an area roughly the size of Sri Lanka.

The study also indicates that the former forested areas of the Central Highlands may have been an important zone of ecological transition between the extremes of eastern humid forests and western dry forests.

The study, led by Liming Zhou of University at Albany, State University of New York, shows between 2000 and 2012 the decline affected an increasing amount of forest area and intensified.

According to one study that looked at eight fuel aridity metrics in the Western U.S. and modeled climate change's effects on them, human - caused climate change accounted for about 55 percent of the observed increases in fuel aridity between 1979 and 2015 (Figure 6), and added an estimated 4.2 million hectares of forest fire area between 1984 and 2015.7 Based on all eight metrics, the Western U.S. experienced an average of 9 additional days per year of high fire potential due to climate change between 2000 and 2015, a 50 percent increase from the baseline of 17 days per year when looking back to 1979.

«Tree mortality increases, so that they can't store as much carbon as healthy trees in the center of the forest, the core area» Sandro Pütz, the main author of the study, explained in a recent release.

One study we reviewed found that if temperatures rise 3.2 °F by mid-century, this could lead to 54 % increase in the annual area burned in the western U.S. 22 The same study found that the forests of the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountains will likely experience the greatest increases in annual burn area (78 % and 175 %, respectively).

Previous studies of the impact of invasive plants on forests were limited to small areas.

The years with the earliest spring snowmelt, which was one - third of the total number of years we studied, account for more than 70 percent of the area burned in large forest wildfires, and 43 percent of the area burned in nonforest fires.

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Deer ticks do not live primarily in long grassy areas, but are found mostly in leaf litter under forest canopies and especially in wooded areas according to veterinarian Scott Stevesonn, DVM, MSc, BMSc who has extensively studied, lectured, and written about tick issues in Canada.

This unique home borders on the edge of a Monterey pine forest natural reserve (ecological study area), where deer, hawks, squirrels, quail and wild turkey call home.

Wave Hill is grateful for the opportunity to work with our collaborating partners, the American Museum of Natural History, the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Cornell University, College of Mount St. Vincent, New York Botanical Garden, Gotham Coyote Project,, NYC Natural Areas Conservancy, NYC Parks Natural Resources Group, NYC Science Research Mentoring Consortium and the USDA Forest Service New York City Urban Field Station.

In the understated language of science, the new study, in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes: «This is unfortunate when one considers that for some species - rich areas of the planet, a large proportion of remaining forest is in fragments» smaller than 2,500 acres.

Dr. Malhi and several other biologists familiar with the study said that the high biological diversity in Yasuní, in itself, hints that the area functioned as a moist refuge for life through past climate shifts that saw much of Amazonia shift to drier forest.

The BECCS study I referenced above found planting more forests is rather limited in terms of potential areas.

A BLM Wilderness Study Area and an adjacent U.S. Forest Service Roadless Area offer only interim protections for 20,000 acres of wilderness - quality terrain.