In just a few years, wanton and deliberate destruction of the escarpment environment through charcoal burning, logging for timber and fuel wood, ring - debarking of medicinal trees and overgrazing has resulted to virtual depletion of
forest vegetation cover.
Not exact matches
In other areas, such as portions of Brazil where the native
vegetation is not
forest, shade canopy
cover may be less appropriate ecologically or agronomically.
Tropical
forests covered most of the globe, including Europe, and even Antarctica was
covered with
vegetation.
«If you want to understand emissions, you need to understand land use and land
cover change, especially when you have
forests cut down and replaced by herbaceous
vegetation.»
«I think Australia would have been a challenging place once you started to break up the
vegetation covers, break up the rain
forests.»
The topography of East Africa completely changed: from a homogeneous flat region
covered in moist
forest, to a mountainous landscape with plateaus and deep rift valleys, where
vegetation varied from cloud
forest to desert scrub.
Tropical
forests are especially important because, even though they
cover only 7 percent of the Earth's surface, they contain the largest
vegetation carbon stocks, and are also important carbon sinks.
Mythology In the 17 century when the golden era of Mengwi Kingdom led by I Gusti Agung Ketut Karangasem, the son of I Gusti Agung Made Agung, founded a temple in the middle of nutmeg
forest, hereinafter called by Bukit Sari Temple (the
forest that mean here is the rest of the mixture of
vegetation covering 10,8 ha and will be expanded into 3,169 ha).
At the same time, the Peruvian Rainforest is fully
covered with big woods and
forest, with the most tropical
vegetation and you can explore flor and fauna on the many tours to the jungle that lead you deep into the Peruvian Amazone.
The land
cover of the reserve and surrounding area has been mapped and is shown on large scale colour air photos held by the
Forest Department, The reserve's
vegetation is almost entirely Red Mangrove, with a belt of mixed freshwater swamp species such as Bullet Tree around Fabers Lagoon.
These types of crater lakes range in size from huge to tiny and are often surrounded by dense
forest or
vegetation that
covers the inner crater walls down to the lake shore.
And I suspect that
vegetation models would mostly be tuned to simulate interior
forest behaviour and so might not be that informative about
vegetation response to changing diffuse / direct light near the tree line with open and sparse
forest cover.
«When forced by general circulation models (GCMs) other than HadCM3,
vegetation models have usually simulated lower or even no losses of Amazonian
forest cover.
It registers change in all
forest and woodland areas that have lost at least 40 percent of their green
vegetation cover over the past year.
Warmer winters and less snow
cover in recent years have contributed to increased deer populations62 that degrade
forest understory
vegetation.82
droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, global ice
cover, and rainfall are about the same (maybe a slight increase in total rainfall);
forests and all other
vegetation that has been studied are growing faster; actual effects of putative ocean pH change are negligible to non-existent.
These pronounced changes in
vegetation cover are likely to indicate
forest being cleared, burned, or defoliated.
Results from Fall et al. (12) indicate that TE (i) is larger than T in 8 areas with higher physical evaporation and transpiration rates (e.g. deciduous broadleaf
forests and croplands) and (ii) shows a stronger relationship than T to
vegetation cover, especially during the growing season (biomass increase).
North American
forest vegetation types could spread with up to 4 °C warming; but with greater warming,
forest cover could be reduced by savanna expansion of up to 50 %, partly due to the impacts of fire (Bachelet et al., 2001).
Malaysia's
forest loss was partly offset by a 25,978 sq km gain in
vegetation cover resulting from natural recovery, reforestation, and establishment of industrial timber and oil palm plantations.
The continued shrinkage of thaw ponds could bring significant changes to local ecosystems, as spruce
forest is likely to supplant tundra as the dominant land
cover.14, 20 This could lead to a northward advance of some species of plants and other trees, while leaving resident
vegetation more vulnerable to early mortality — potentially further disrupting the climate.14, 20,21
Its intention was to double India's
forest and other
vegetation cover over the decade from 2011, to enhance ecosystem services like carbon sequestration and biodiversity, while providing fuel, fodder and other
forest products.
Changes in
vegetation cover affect surface energy and water balances at the regional scale, from boreal to tropical
forests.
Australia is at an environmental advantage in our ability to leverage carbon offset opportunities from our extensive
forest and natural
vegetation cover.