Sentences with phrase «in vegetation communities»

«The results underscore the importance of accounting for changes in vegetation communities to accurately characterize future stream flow for the Sierra Nevada.»

Kwon MJ, Heimann M, Kolle O, Luus KA, Schuur EAG, Zimov N, Zimov SA, Göckede M (2016) Long - term drainage reduces CO2 uptake and increases CO2 emission on a Siberian floodplain due to shifts in vegetation community and soil thermal characteristics.

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In the Mallowa system, 204 ha of wetlands were inundated with Water for the environment during 2015 - 16, promoting the growth of native vegetation communities.

Residual inundation in the Gingham and Gwydir wetland from environmental water delivered in 2014 - 15 helped maintain native vegetation communities and provided habitat for waterbirds and frogs early in 2015 - 16.

In the Mallowa system, 204 ha of wetlands were inundated with Commonwealth environmental water during 2015 - 16, promoting the growth of native vegetation communities

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For example, presumably, you could have a communist community in an area with unlimited energy - rich wild life and vegetation, warm, stable climate and natural places to live such as caves.

The floral turnover may have affected terrestrial vertebrate communities as the loss of wetland habitat space and an increase in arid climate adapted plants may have dwindled the supply of palatable vegetation for herbivores.

Plant community analysis reveals that the floral turnover was followed by the colonization of new plant groups such as the varieties of conifer trees and the decrease in the contribution of seed ferns in the vegetation along waterways.

«The Illinois State Museum is deeply respected in the scientific community for the expertise of its curators and for its irreplaceable collection of archaeological, cultural, and paleontological artifacts,» says paleoecologist Jack Williams of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has used the Neotoma database to explore vegetation change over the past 20,000 years on a continental and global scale.

The findings confirmed his thoughts; beginning approximately 8,000 years ago in the regions surrounding the Nile River, pastoral communities began to appear and spread westward, in each case at the same time as an increase in scrub vegetation.

These numbers clearly indicate that sequestering a significant fraction of projected emissions in vegetation is likely to be very difficult, especially as forests are cleared to make way for agriculture and communities.

Effects of thinning intensity on understory vegetation and soil microbial communities of a mature Chinese pine plantation in the Loess Plateau — Peng Dang — Science of The Total Environment

For example, some sacred sites are named after the long - standing vegetation communities grown in that area; yet many of the species may no longer be present under future climates.

It is a small lake, but it is rich in flora and bird species, and its landscape is most beautiful, as it is surrounded by exuberant vegetation inhabited by various bird species, and it is quite close to the traditional and ancestral native community of Infierno.

Though up to each individual, it was always more fun to experience something unique together, such as visiting the master weavers in Pisac, who taught us how they dye their alpaca wool using vegetation, or hiking up to the isolated community of Viacha to learn about the 4,000 different varieties of potatoes that grow in Peru.

The island's stands of giant coreopsis, as well as all the other plants of its coastal bluff community, were devastated by sheep grazing in the late 1800s and early 1900s, rabbit browsing in 1910 - 1950s, and by large - scale destruction of native vegetation associated with facility and road development by the U.S. Coast Guard during construction and manning of the Anacapa Light Station.

Current research focusing on terrestrial animals includes several studies on the island fox, one on the role of deer mice in affecting vegetation community recovery, and one on the response of lizards to the removal of rats on Anacapa.

Upon moving to NYC she radically challenged her academic training to site specific installations using vegetation and the community as her primary medium; her «social practice» was fully incorporated in her art making.

The cascading flurry of paper patterns emerging from origami pipes suspended from the gallery ceiling will tell the story of a community ensnared in a five - year drought, but is still hopeful for a reemergence of vegetation.

Thus, it is reasonable to equate changes in DGVM - simulated vegetation (e.g., Figure 4.3) to changes in community and population structures in the real world.