Sentences with phrase «hectare plots»

An international team of scientists led by Lan Qie, then at the University of Leeds, analyzed long - term measurements of 71 - hectare plots across the huge island, and discovered that over the past half century, Borneo's intact forest increased in biomass by an average of 430 kilograms per hectare per year.

He and colleagues set up a series of 2 - to 5 - hectare plots on abandoned, degraded farmland in the Netherlands.

An international team of researchers used Google Earth and Collect Earth, a program developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, to estimate tree cover on more than 210,000 half - hectare plots in dry areas of Australia, Africa, the American West and elsewhere.

Covering roughly 32,000 individual trees composed of 1,162 species, 24 of the hectare plots rest near the edges of the remnant fragments while 16 lie deep within intact interiors.

Daniel Peterson cupped beans from all over the farm, and discovered the pleasant citrusy flavor present in the mixed beans from the farm as a whole were being flavored by some outstanding beans from a 50 hectare plot in one small valley at the high end (1550 m) of the farm: the Esmeralda Especial.

The government granted IRRI the use of a 10 - hectare plot of land at Gihanga for rice research.

To support IRRI's activities, First Vice-President Busokoza also announced that the government has granted IRRI use of a 10 hectare plot of land at Gihanga for its rice research.

To gain an understanding of how rainforests grow, Farrior and colleagues analyzed decades of tree census data from a 50 - hectare plot on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal.

If Thanyapura is your destination, your 25 minute private transfer will take you to the Thanyapura Megaplex, nestled in a 23 - hectare plot framed by mountains and nature.

Bai Tram Hideout sits on a spectacular 90 - hectare plot with 900 metres of private white sand beach.

Lothlorien Cottage is situated on a spacious 2 - hectare plot of land in the midst of an orchard, ensuring complete privacy and serenity.

Not exact matches

A hundred years later, in 1952, Hervé Duboscq becomes the owner of a plot of seven hectares called Château HAUT - MARBUZET.

In count three, Lamina was accused of forcefully taking over and remaining in possession of 200 plots of land in Mowo Kekere belonging to Planet Properties Ltd contrary to Section 2 (2) of the same law, while in count five, the defendants were said to have fraudulently sold 60 hectares of land which had been previously sold by the rightful owner contrary to Section 8 (1)(b) of the law.

In these two rainforests, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and countless volunteers have for years been recording every tree with a diameter wider than a pencil on a plot measuring between 25 and 50 hectares.

Each of the plots is one hectare and contains around 400 - 500 trees.

Botanist Richard Condit of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution in Balboa, Panama, and colleagues systematically worked through six plots of 25 or 50 hectares each — for a grand total of about 715 soccer fields worth of terrain — in rainforests of Asia and Central America, keying out every tree with a trunk thicker than 1 centimeter.

Fully mapped tree census plots of large area, 25 to 52 hectares, have now been completed at six different sites in tropical forests, including dry deciduous to wet evergreen forest on two continents.

The study uses data from 2,345 one - hectare forest plots that were surveyed throughout the Brazilian Amazon, containing some 129,720 large trees.

The number of females in the 16 - hectare trial plot was estimated from the proportion of jam - jar - sized pots placed there in which A. aegypti eggs were found.

The researchers focused on 79 permanent TmFO sample plots representing 376 hectares of forested area at 10 sites across the Amazon Basin.

The Vavilov Institute issued a statement after today's ruling saying it would pursue a final appeal to the federal arbitration court over the 90 hectares of plots concerned, but campaigners have expressed little hope of victory.

«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.

COUNTING TREES Researchers analyzed Google Earth imagery of dryland forest plots (one example of an open baobab forest in Senegal, shown) to reveal millions of forest hectares not previously reported.

VEBA, an oil and chemicals company near Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr, has planted over 30 hectares of Miscanthus plots this year.

In Germany, research with the crop is further advanced and more than 130 hectares of trial plots are growing this year.

A new analysis of tree growth and death in 79 plots across tropical Africa finds that every hectare is soaking up an average 0.6 tonnes of carbon from the air per year.

In the field research, we studied 225 plots (each 3,000 m2) in two large regions in an area measuring 3 million hectares [30,000 square meters], which we used as a model to estimate what occurred in the Amazon as a whole,» Ferreira explained.

This undeveloped plot with a surface area of 26 hectares is the largest piece of available empty land in Venice, which has made it the subject of countless speculation initiatives, such as the controversial idea of digging a railway tunnel under the lagoon to link the city with its airport, with a station located in this area.

And of the 40 hectare (100 acre) forest plots enrolled in the scheme, each contained one or two more species than those in non-enrolled forests.

As Saatchi wrote in his paper, Benchmark Map of Forest Carbon Stocks in Tropical Regions Across Three Continents, the probability map was often just 50/50 at the level of individual pixels — each of which represented one hectare — but it was 95 % accurate on plots the size of a typical forest carbon project (10,000 hectares or more), and to 99 % when scaled up to the size of a country (1 million hectares or more).

The adjacent charts plots the number of Canadian forest fires and hectares burned.

Scientists «exclude [d] rainfall from a 100 - meter - by -100-meter (1 hectare) plot of rainforest» by covering the ground with plastic sheet gutters.

In Helin County, south of the provincial capital of Hohhot, the planting of desert shrubs on abandoned cropland has now stabilized the soil on the county's first 7,000 - hectare reclamation plot.

DTE Energy have offered over 100 acres (40 hectares) of land to the Gleaners Community Food Bank * for use as garden plots or allotments, so «one of the oldest food banks in the United States» can grow food to feed the hungry.

Similarly, FLC Group, won the bid for the land use rights of the 6.4 - hectare DM1 land plot, located in Nam Tu Liem District, for nearly US$ 38 million, to build townhouses, villas and apartments.