Sentences with phrase «grasslands with»

Many otherwise genuine environmentalists are assisting the destruction of grasslands with their native pastures and endangered grass birds.

These methods are designed to re-enact the movements of the prehistoric herds that once nurtured global grasslands with their manure deposits and «hoof action» (gentle trampling that increases the soil's ability to hold water).

Saving the Grasslands with grazing animals by Alan Savory (well worth watching): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI

The vista is an unremarkable one of grasslands with a weeping willow visible on the left and bulls grazing further afield.

Add nearby grasslands with trails snaking through tall milkweed plants that naturally attract more than 100,000 monarch butterflies each year (usually October through February) and you've got a junior naturalist's delight.

Grasslands with Peach's Castle is the «world surrounded by a tornado» you see the tornado in the artwork, also here:

The work of Dr. Sergey Zimov shows promise that tundra can be converted back to grasslands with the introduction of grazers even 10,000 years after their disappearance.

Researchers measured the rate at which soil absorbed water on grasslands with active pika colonies and in places where pikas had been exterminated for more than 2 years.

In a comprehensive field experiment, the scientists sowed more than 90 different native and exotic plant species into 16 grasslands with different vegetation densities in the Canton of Bern.

Gomes - Solecki baited four football pitch - sized plots of grassland with vaccine pellets and three with sham pellets.

They baited four football - pitch - sized plots of grassland with vaccine pellets and three with sham pellets.

Farmers who fertilise grassland with treated sewage sludge are required by the Department of the Environment to wait three weeks before allowing animals to graze.

Pine was cut heavily in the 1950's and 1960's, so there are generally few pine trees left so the landscape consists of grassland with groups of palmetto.

RC: Nebraska has a lot of grassland with deep soil.

For several millennia after the end of the last ice age, the Sahara was a grassland with rivers and several massive lakes.

Not exact matches

With 20 feet of grassland between them, the banker and the three - ton pachyderm faced off.

What the people needed most was water for themselves, their grasslands and their crops, and canals and reservoirs were developed with much engineering skill to drain off the flood waters and irrigate the land.

All the resources used by humans, with the exception of minerals and petroleum, are dependent upon four ecological systems: grasslands, croplands, forests and fisheries.

The three - hour drive on excellent highways took us through rolling grassland, patches of forests, lakes with trout in them, and mountain passes — but no jungles.

Picture perfect English villages, quirky cosy cottages with thatched roofs, luscious green grasslands and virgin beech woods — it's no surprise that The Cotswolds is considered one of the Areas...

Theme 3 - Managing SOC in soils with high SOC - peatlands, permafrost, and black soils; in grasslands, and livestock production systems; and in dryland soils.

Located in Marin County approximately 30 miles west - northwest of San Francisco, the coastal grasslands of Point Reyes are filled with happy cows from our family farms.

Milk suppliers in Kerry and Limerick facilitated on farm visits which provided the students with an excellent overview of grassland management techniques and training on grass measurement.

With regard to pollinators, which greatly benefit from a richness of flowers, the fact that flowering weeds are more diverse and more abundant in organic arable fields and in organic grassland compared to conventional fields, where only few species and numbers were found, is particularly important.

Known for its mild, coastal climate, pristine coastal grassland, and fresh marine air — with virtually no pollution from traffic or factories — the area is a quiet escape from city life.

On the lee slope of Mauna Kea, where the grasslands burnished by the sun are interspersed with brush and clumps of mamani trees, public hunting grounds stretch from 6,000 feet elevation up over the volcanic rubble that caps Mauna Kea at 13,800 feet.

Work with private landowners, universities, and state and federal agencies to promote effective conservation practices for grassland sites, coastal barrier beaches, and other high - priority habitats.

Mass Audubon has a long history in working with grassland birds, a group that is showing steep declines across North America including in the Commonwealth.

The local Bikeways Plan places Centennial Park at the hub of a network connecting the Tinley Creek Forest Preserve to the northeast with the Orland Grasslands Forest Preserve to the southwest.

Loss of essential grassland habitat, increased use of toxic pesticides, reduced availability of nesting grounds, disease, and a changing climate with extreme weather patterns have all played a role in their decline.

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 conserWith 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 conserwith the Town of Plymouth to protect an additional 139 acres, for a total of 618 acres conserved.

Kathe Kruse Musical Fairy Grasslands Jingling Butterfly Fairy Doll / with Flower Blossom Music Box more >

Supplementing the cows with feed such as corn dried distillers grains with solubles will provide the animals with the extra nutrients they require, according to research at NDSU's Central Grasslands Research Extension Center, near Streeter.

«Arcadia's natural diversity combined with our active management of important grasslands and shrublands provide habitat for a wide range of bird species,» said Keane.

We are reminded of the need to protect our Earth with all its wonders and beautiful resources: the majestic glaciers, magnificent oceans, captivating tall trees, vast grasslands, and all precious life forms.

Grasslands mixed with south coastal shrublands and forests dominate Ghana, with forest extending northward from the south - west coast of Ghana on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean 320 kilometres (200 miles) and eastward for a maximum of about 270 kilometres (170 miles) with the Kingdom of Ashanti or the southern part of Ghana being a primary location for mining of industrial minerals and timber.

Buhari said that with the current challenge, the country must harness its natural resources like agriculture and solid minerals to survive, being a country blessed with arable land, endless swathes of grasslands and forest.

In some regions, greening could be caused by species change, with greener invasive plants replacing indigenous ones or bushes encroaching on grasslands that are used to graze cattle, Wang said.

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

A return to grasslands could be a potential source of income, says Amy Hardberger, an attorney with the EDF in Austin, Tex..

The Sahel is a semiarid region with grasslands and scattered trees sandwiched between the Sahara Desert to the north and tropical savannas to the south.

The production and use of fertilizer has led to significant greenhouse gas emissions, Burney said, but that increase pales in comparison with what might have been had more forests and grasslands been shifted to agricultural uses.

«Previous studies of the impacts of drought on flowers and bees have looked at individual species, often in the laboratory, but we used an experiment with rain shelters to examine the effects on real communities of plant species living in chalk grassland,» said Dr Ellen Fry from the University of Manchester, who set up the experiment.

With the arrival of wind energy projects in Kansas and throughout the Plains, Sandercock and his team were part of a consortium of stakeholders — including conservationists, wildlife agencies and wind energy companies — who studied how these wind projects influence grassland birds.

It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.

A turkey - like bird with a vulture's head, the vulturine guineafowl makes its home in the dry grasslands of northeast Africa.

Ecologist John Orrock, who studies how animals balance the need to protect themselves from predation with other needs, such as eating and mating, hatched the idea for this research when he was studying snails in a California grassland.

The work complements other recent studies showing that greenhouse gas warming will shift plant ecosystems toward weedy plants, says Robert Jackson of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who has done similar work with natural grasslands.

Wind developers that cooperate with the guidelines will avoid dividing important habitats like forests and grasslands, thus maintaining their suitability for wildlife.

Ledi - Geraru hosted a different fauna just 200,000 years later, with grazers such as gazelles, zebras, wild pigs, and a baboon at home in open grasslands like the Serengeti.