Sentences with phrase «grasslands restoration»

The presentation explores the role of grasslands restoration as a key component for climate change mitigation.

Our staff members are leaders in habitat management planning, invasive species control, dam removal, and salt marsh and grassland restoration.

In a project she is coordinating, farmers are experimenting with grassland restoration on fields they have been forced to retire because of groundwater depletions.

It also is commonly used in grassland restoration of prairies across several million acres in the Great Plains region.

Interests: Forest and grassland biogeochemistry, conservation biology; coastal plain ponds and grassland restoration on Martha's Vineyard (MA) and deforestation in Brazil.

Once a captive breeding population of Woolly Mammoths is large enough, herds can be established at suitable grassland restoration sites throughout the arctic.

«Through our partnership with The Savory Institute, EPIC is committed to global large - scale grassland restoration efforts.

If you look at net, you think the problem is impossible to solve with grassland restoration and reforestation.

But yet another reason that grassland restoration, etc. is an insufficient (but necessary!)

Both grassland restoration and reforestation have good arguments in their favor besides whatever effect they might have on carbon sequestration.

Recently, he has been researching grassland restoration and its importance as the essential process to reverse global warming.

Not exact matches

Our habitat restoration work includes unique experience creating grassland bird habitat on recently closed landfills.

This includes invasive species control, carefully planned restoration, and grassland and shrubland maintenance.

With the restoration nearly complete, Mass Audubon has the opportunity to establish a wildlife sanctuary on 479 acres of wetlands, woods, and grasslands and to partner with the Town of Plymouth to protect an additional 139 acres, for a total of 618 acres conserved.

Some restoration ecologists consider tropical grassland habitats off limits for tree - planting projects.

What's more, when governments and nonprofit organizations try to bring back grasslands, forests, and other ecosystems destroyed by agriculture and other human uses, they are often disappointed: Restoration can take decades.

That finding could, for example, support the idea of using more diverse seed mixes in prairie restoration projects, or keeping a prairie grassland instead of turning it into marginal agricultural land.

On the other hand, once you realize that there is an enormous amount of vegetative uptake already (123 Pg) and you look at the amount of destruction of forest and grassland is occurring today, you will realize that if stop the destruction and begin the restoration a significant contribution could be made.

Also it is clear that reforestation or restoration of grassland will increase respiration also but we would hope not as much since in both efforts we are taking land that is sequestering small amounts (in some cases with destroyed grassland perhaps almost no amount) of carbon to land that would sequester substantial amounts.

Jim Laurie has been studying Holistic Management and visiting with practitioners for over 20 years, and in 2011, Seth Itzkan spent six weeks at the Africa Center of Holistic Management in Zimbabwe, where he saw first hand the use of this practice toward the restoration of grasslands and the return of surface water in rural Africa.

The restoration of grasslands, forests, rivers and oceans and the creation of prosperous, secure and resilient human communities.

The solution was relegated to degraded grasslands, where it was the sixth (and lowest) priority, as Drawdown rates food production and ecological restoration as higher priorities than energy.