Sentences with phrase «including vegetation»

I think of veiled chameleons as the bulldogs of the chameleon world — sturdy, dependable animals that, due to being high desert dwellers, can take a wide fluctuation of temperatures (from blazing heat in the day to cool at night), and consume a surprisingly broad diet, including some vegetation.

On the importance of including vegetation dynamics in Budyko's hydrological model R. J. Donohue, M. L. Roderick, and T. R. McVicar Ecosystem Dynamics Group, Research School of Biological Sciences,

The drainage basin as an open system with inputs (precipitation of varying type and intensity), outputs (evaporation and transpiration), flows (infiltration, throughflow, overland flow and base flow) and stores (including vegetation, soil, aquifers and the cryosphere)

Enduring swarms of biting black flies, numerous flat tires, and even a night spent stranded in the woods with a broken ATV, they also collected a variety of data on habitats where the birds nested, including vegetation density, spruce and fir cone production, and red squirrel abundance.

Similar processes might include the vegetation growth / wildfire cycle in semi-arid ecosystems, or rock avalanches in mountain zones with a strong freeze - thaw cycle.

They include vegetation maps.

Not exact matches

They should include small - scale steps, such as removing flammable vegetation, pruning trees, using less - flammable construction materials, and dealing with identified vulnerabilities such as fences.

Many interacting factors influence whether and how wildfires will spread, including fire intensity, wind intensity, the quantity of firebrands that land on structures, the heat that impacts structures, how structures ignite, the distance between structures and vegetation, and the distance between structures.

Yahweh will make with them a covenant of shalom, which will include the banishment of wild animals, abundant showers, splendid vegetation.

The local and downstream environmental benefits of watering throughout the system and down into the Lower Lakes and Coorong include assisting native fish spawning and movement, improving the health of native vegetation, supporting waterbirds and increasing food sources for native species.

Commonwealth environmental water helped maintain a mosaic of habitats including native vegetation, stimulated breeding and recruitment of several native fish, frog and turtle species, and resulted in a boom of productivity in the system.

Purchase of temporary water could contribute to achieving annual basin watering priorities including the Northern Basin fish refuges priority, the Basin - wide in - stream and riparian vegetation priority, and the Basin - wide flow variability and longitudinal connectivity priority.

Later in the report, it also cited at least four more studies that included at least 15 more RA certified farms (some only used evaluations of regional vegetation or non-farm-specific metrics).

Common threats include: loss of nesting and roosting sites, habitat fragmentation by conversion or destruction of vegetation, habitat fragmentation by excessive exposure of nectar plants to herbicides and pollinators to pesticides, over-hunting, disruption of nectar corridors required by migratory pollinators, and competition by invasive species65.

Supplements included oils, fats, tannins, probiotics, nitrates, enzymes, marine algae and Australian native vegetation.

That includes car crashes, tick bites and Lyme disease infections as well as the nuisance of lost vegetation.

long cost / benefit analysis, which not only include loss of arable land but rather shifting it further towards pools (in my country, unless there is an awful change in sea currents, one could actually expect longer vegetation season)

For now, the increases in CO2 soaked up by new vegetation — including trees now growing where shrubs used to dominate — more than compensate for the amounts of the gas released by thawing permafrost, the team says.

The bay's aquatic vegetation, including seagrasses and freshwater grasses, is an important part of coastal ecosystems, says study coauthor Jonathan Lefcheck, a marine ecologist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine.

The maps show changes in vegetation, elevation, amount of rainfall and include scales to show distance.

Crowley points out that several organizations — including Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership, WeForest.org and natureisspeaking.org — have put forth a great effort to plant trees and vegetation on the island.

Ballantyne's team estimated the temperature of the period at which the peat formed by measuring various things that are affected by temperature, including isotopes in tree rings and the amount of fossilised vegetation.

Studies including Wang's earlier work in Africa have shown that even small changes in soil moisture in drylands could be significant enough to cause large changes in vegetation productivity.

Tropical forests covered most of the globe, including Europe, and even Antarctica was covered with vegetation.

Instead, much of the islands» surface is covered by abundant but drab vegetation, including the dry gray «holy stick» tree.

Researchers in Queensland, Australia, assessed the condition of fragmented eucalyptus forests at 10 sites using conventional measures — including the size of forest patches, vegetation characteristics and the number of bird species detected — and sound recordings.

These green solutions include street trees, vegetation barriers (including hedges), green (or living) walls, and green roofs.

The models included interactions and competition between predators as well as the influence of climate on vegetation and prey populations.

The report documented substantial environmental change on the island, including shifting vegetation and a more than doubling of the extent of urbanization.

Beginning in the 1920s, Tansley published a number of texts on plant biology, including his 1939 work, «The British Islands and their Vegetation,» which provided a comprehensive survey of Britain's native flora.

Implications for ecosystems and the species that inhabit them include disruptions to beaches, coastal vegetation and reefs; ocean - going birds and transoceanic migrants also could be affected.

Orchids, ferns and other types of vegetation grow along the road of Singapore and expand their territories to include walls.

The fossil plant assemblages, including spores and pollen grains, provide useful information on past vegetation and the response of the vegetation to climate changes.

He found them in all 19 samples, including snow taken from Montana in the dead of winter, when there is almost no deciduous vegetation, and even in samples from Antarctica.

They also propose steps for making the tracks safer, including systems to warn of approaching trains, trails to provide escape routes, clearing vegetation around the tracks, and fencing around hot spots.

The exhibit includes a variety of vegetation that thrives in low light, says environmental designer Misty Gonzalez, founder of Hortus Environmental Design, who arranged the plant life on display.

This vegetation includes many species that typically live under forest canopies, including nonvascular plants (moss, in particular), Japanese spurge (Pachysandra terminalis), autumn fern (Dryopteris erythrosora), lilyturf (Liriope muscari), Korean rock fern (Polystichum tsus - simense), pearl oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus), along with a Japanese maple tree (Acer palmatum).

Even today, Trinity visitors look for the effects of radiation everywhere, including the scrub inside the interior perimeter close to the point of detonation, which is shorter than the vegetation on the rest of the plain.

One such insect, the sap - sucking aphid (a common pest in gardens), has an effective escape plan, though: the bugs detect an approaching herbivore's breath and simply drop off the plant before it's eaten.Researchers at the University of Haifa at Oranim, Israel first noticed this phenomenon when they allowed a goat to feed on aphid - infested alfalfa plants — 65 percent of the plant pests simultaneously dropped to the ground just before the vegetation was devoured.The team suspected that several cues might have motivated the mass dropping, including the sudden shadow cast by the goat, plant - shaking triggered by the munching marauder and / or the herbivore's exhalations.

In his proclamation designating this 129,000 - acre site in mid-2000, Clinton said the Ironwood Forest presents a «quintessential view of the Sonoran Desert» and pointed to vegetation including its «ironwood, palo verde and saguaro.»

«Our main challenge is to understand and include the mechanisms by which vegetation and atmospheric variables are coupled,» said De Decker.

Though these processes are influenced by factors including climate, vegetation and human activity, erosion is the main factor that affects the amount of carbon that ends up in rivers.

Illegal logging and slash - and - burn practices to clear land for farming — two major sources of income for impoverished Malagasy — have destroyed most of the country's native vegetation, including 90 % of its original forests.

How much movement occurs depends on a number of factors including wind strength, the amount of vegetation cover and moisture levels.

The thermal infrared radiation associated with such archaeological features depends on several variables, including the make - up of the soil, its moisture content and vegetation cover.

In addition to global evapotranspiration trends, they examined vegetation greenness and general climate data including temperature, precipitation and cloudiness.

The researchers, including some at Esri, combined information on geology and vegetation to generate nearly 4,000 «ecological land units».

Gentine's team is the first to isolate the response of vegetation from the global warming total complex response, which includes such variables for the water cycle as evapotranspiration (the water evaporated from the surface, both from plants and bare soil) soil moisture, and runoff.

These findings suggest that historical milking grounds represent an alternative stable state, maintained by a number of processes, including increased nutrient cycling rates, soil biotic and abiotic processes, and selective feeding on shrubs by lemmings and voles, which prevent the surrounding vegetation from invading in the historical milking grounds.

EPA is also proposing a separate «secondary» standard aimed at protecting vegetation and ecosystems, including parks, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas.