Sentences with phrase «human land»

Their analysis demonstrates the importance of combining transparency for stakeholders and strict enforcement for species conservation in efforts to facilitate species persistence in the face of human land use.

The central question at issue is the magnitude of the albedo forcing from changes in human land use.

As the temporal scale is extended, the development of dynamic vegetation models, which respond to climate and human land use as well as other changes, is a central issue.

Pressed on human landings on Mars and asteroids, Bolden said it was too early to give definitive dates.

In the mid-1980s David Wilcove investigated the effects of human land use on songbirds.

There are 3 story.driven campaigns that center on t.he attack of human lands by an orca chieftain.

He believes «we really can celebrate the 100th anniversary of Sputnik with the 20th anniversary of the first human landing on Mars.»

Instead, we need to intensify agriculture and other human land uses in existing areas as much as possible, and encourage as an environmental boon the growth of the world's major cities that already successfully concentrate today's enormous human population onto only a tiny proportion of the world's land.

If humans land on Mars, they'll need to bring quite a bit of luggage and, without a dense atmosphere to provide friction, it'll be very difficult to slow this heavier payload.

But accurately measuring the natural rate of erosion for a landscape — and, therefore, how much human land use has accelerated this rate — has been a devilishly hard task for geologists.

While understanding causes and effects of megafaunal extinctions will require a deeper knowledge of climate change and prehistoric human land use chronologies, everyone agrees that they had major impacts on plant communities.

From there they could study a captured asteroid using telepresence technology, or even practise human landings on its surface.

NASA's first workshop on human landing sites, held in Houston in October 2015, identified more than 40 «exploration zones» within 50 degrees latitude of the equator, where astronauts could do science and potentially access raw materials for building and life support, including water.

«Using just those two factors, climate and soils, we were able to predict human land use fairly reliably.»

We tend to think of the overuse of natural resources, climatic instability, and large - scale human land use as quintessentially modern day problems.

A metagenomic analysis of these prairie microbes, Jansson thought, would help reveal the extent of their involvement in carbon storage and illuminate whether rainfall and human land cultivation change that role.

Once hatched, the monster's offspring sustain themselves by sucking the life forces of various unlucky human land dwellers.

A new trailer for Quantic Dream's Detroit: Become Human landed recently as part of Paris Games Week and it's caused quite a kerfuffle.

It's been a couple of years since NASA outlined its Journey to Mars program that, with many milestones along the way, ultimately envisions humans landing on Mars in the 2030s.

Twenty - five percent of respondents to a survey in the British magazine Engineering & Technology said they do not believe humans landed on the moon.

This suggest that human land degradation was an integral part of the Dust Bowl story.

Climate change and direct human land - use pressure are likely to have synergistic impacts on desert ecosystems and species that may be offset, at least partly, by vegetation productivity and carbon sequestration gains due to rising atmospheric CO2.

Since the TAR, further work shows that desert biodiversity is likely to be vulnerable to climate change (Reid et al., 2005), with winter - rainfall desert vegetation and plant and animal species especially vulnerable to drier and warmer conditions (Lenihan et al., 2003; Simmons et al., 2004; Musil et al., 2005; Malcolm et al., 2006), and continental deserts vulnerable to desiccation and even soil mobilisation, especially with human land - use pressures (Thomas and Leason, 2005).

«The abundance and number of spider species is negatively affected by the impact of many human land uses, such as habitat fragmentation, fire and pesticides», Samuel Prieto - Benítez and Marcos Méndez, researchers at the URJC Biodiversity and Conservation Department, tell SINC.

It's scheduled to send a 6 - person crew to orbit Mars by 2028 and scout a site for the first human landing by the early 2030s.

Since the characteristics of Earth's climate in the absence of cities, agriculture, and other human land uses are unknown, comparing the dynamics of the present Earth - atmosphere system with that of preurban and preagricultural times is very difficult.

Joseph Poore highlighted vast reductions in human land use as yet another clear and positive benefit of diet change (12...

If Martian dust storms carry microbes far enough, the invaders could contaminate potential special regions even if humans land a safe distance away.

As with direct effects, indirect effects can compound existing forest conditions and impacts from past and future human land - use activities (Moritz and Agudo 2013).

Additionally, the researchers» detailed field data make clear that the land sinking around Washington is not primarily driven by human influence, such as groundwater withdrawals, but instead is a long - term geological process that will continue unabated for tens of thousands of years, independent from human land use or climate change.

Then, they calculated how well those variables predicted four common modes of human land use in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia: farming, sedentary animal husbandry, nomadic wandering, and hunting and gathering.

The bill does not require that NASA reinstate lunar surface missions to its human exploration plan, but Palazzo noted that the NRC report pointed to the «significant contributions» such missions could provide for the longer term goal of human landings on Mars.

That human land use destroys natural ecosystems is an oft - cited assumption in conservation, but ecologists have discovered that instead, traditional ranching techniques in the African savanna enhance the local abundance of wild, native animals.

That, Karl said, is tricky because extreme events are «very complex,» and multiple factors — including precipitation, temperature, soil moisture, snowpack availability, and human land and water usage — all come into play.

While the U.S. partners focus on lunar exploration, the White House is more intrigued by missions to asteroids and Phobos and Deimos as a precursor to a human landing on the Red Planet in the distant future.

China's national protected area system has expanded greatly in recent years, but the areas are typically remote, at higher elevations and ineffectively managed, while sacred forests are closer to centers of human land use, at lower - elevations and managed effectively at the community level.

Humans landed on the Moon less than ten years after we first achieved Earth orbit.

Cochrane, M. A. & Barber, C. P. Climate change, human land use and future fires in the Amazon.

The four main ways are human land use, industrial agriculture, deforestation and urban sprawl.

«Rectar has always had his sights set on conquering the human lands.

A powerful character with an ancient connection to the potent dragons of the past, Miri possesses abilities unseen in human lands...

He uses tree - ring records in combination with other natural archives and documentary sources to reconstruct the histories of fire, insect outbreaks, human land uses, and climate.

Soils are the largest single terrestrial source of carbon dioxide (CO2), but these emissions are highly sensitive to a range of factors associated with climate change and human land use (1).