But the carbon lost from
the increasing numbers of trees that are damaged or die could reduce this effect and reverse the positive impact of forest management measures aimed at reducing climate change.
«There is a global effort to
increase the number of trees that can trap carbon,» Staver said.
This shift from cool to warm in the North Atlantic has already had an impact; this past year at least 89,000 individual fires burned 9.5 million acres in the western U.S. Worse yet, forest management practices that have
increased the number of trees in western woods — as well as relatively wet preceding decades — have put in place an abundance of fuel for future fires.
As regional warming caused
an increased number of trees to die, there would be less living trees to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Instead of allowing for new mills to be built, it would be advisable for Indonesia to hold future expansion of the pulp and paper industry until they successfully
increase the number of tree plantations.»
Not exact matches
«As a result
of the new circumstances, the Minister
of Agriculture, Orit Noked, encourages Israeli palm
tree growers to significantly
increase the
number of lulavs to be given for the Sukkot holiday.
Once when the Prophet had been sitting on a
tree stump and then abandoned it for a higher seat in order that the
increased number of listeners might hear him better, all the audience heard the wailing complaint
of the stump, a wailing which continued until the Prophet took the stump in his arms and consoled it as one would console a baby.
With the
increasing number of allergies, more readers are asking for
tree nut free recipes.
The
number of children with food allergies has
increased nearly 50 percent over the past 20 years, and the
number of people with peanut and
tree nut allergies has more than tripled in that time, the agency said.
The Salvation Army Angel
Tree program for example, which gives needy children presents during the holidays, has seen an
increase in the
number of requests, and it is only November.
But it adds that this neglect
of maintenance came at a cost, and is likely to have led to the
increase (up to a trebling in some sites) in
numbers of trees dying in the years after the drought.
One factor is that researchers have found warmer temperatures
increase the
number of young produced by the gloomy scale insect — a significant
tree pest — by 300 percent, which in turn leads to 200 times more adult gloomy scales on urban
trees.
In 2002 35 percent
of the total area cleared
of trees consisted
of land swaths smaller than 0.5 square kilometer, whereas by 2010, the contribution
of these small areas to the overall deforestation
number increased to 80 percent.
In other words, although the total
number of felled
trees was reduced, the smaller areas that are still being cleared have
increased in
number.
Using a digital terrain model
of the landscape and a hydrological model simulation the scientists found that planting
trees on the floodplain and
increasing the
number of logjams, across 10 - 15 per cent
of the total river length could reduce the peak height
of a potential flood in the town by 6 per cent once the
trees had grown for 25 years.
«If you want to
increase or keep the current
number of native animals on your farm it's best to graze with conservative stocking rates and retain standing
trees and woody debris.»
Direct effects are impacts to
trees that arise directly in response to changes in temperature and precipitation; indirect effects are secondary impacts, such as
increased number of fires associated with warming temperatures, which then affect
trees and forests.
I myself find that while actual incidence can vary wildly, the average
number and annoyance
of typos
increases the further one gets from traditional dead
tree publishers.
Lemon
Tree Passage, which has attracted an
increasing number of retirees in recent years, is one
of the prime secluded spots on the southern shore
of a waterway which is now firmly established among the finest aquatic playgrounds on Australia's east coast.
As one goes from south to north on the island, - the amount
of fresh water in the subsurface
increases and hence the
numbers of trees that need fresh water also
increases northward.
- the 18 returning classes were chosen by seeing which popular classes would fit with the game - they also wanted to include classes to cover roles that the roster was lacked - the Pugilist class was added because the first group
of classes selected did not include any with bashing and binding attacks - War Magus was added because the Medic was the only healer class in the roster at that point - they couldn't simply include all popular classes as that would have skewed the balance
of the game - as for the Hero class, they with balanced offensive and defensive capabilities, but this made things to similar to other classes - this was rectified by adding after - images and other skills with good synergy - when an after - image appears, it does the same skills as the Hero, except on the following turn - it becomes possible for skills that usually can not be used multiple times in a row to be activated multiple turns in a row - it also means skills that only have an effect for one turn can be extended to two - after - images use not only the Hero's own class skills, but also their subclass skills - if the subclass is an Imperial, the Drive skill can be used multiple times in a row - when using Hero as a subclass to Nightseeker, the character can cover the Nightseeker's weaknesses
of having low defense - after - images can also help
increase the chances
of inflicting status ailments - subclasses can be used to make up for weakness - Swordsman, a class that can learn speed and accuracy boosting skills, would be a good subclass for the Gunner - Reaper as a subclass for War Magus would allow that character to use the scythe's skills to inflict status ailments - the skill
tree is slowly unlocked as a character grows - there are more skills that make jobs» individual styles stand out more, or expand the player's choices - the skill
tree is also made so that there are less requirements to learn specific skills as compared to 5 - this makes it easier for players to get the skill they want without spending large
numbers of skill points on lower skills - it's now easier to put points into skills, which makes re-specing easier - the team faced difficulty in balancing classes that were never meant to be alongside each other - they are doing their best to ensure that they keep the individual classes» identities intact
Climate change has very likely
increased the size and
number of wildfires, insect outbreaks, pathogens, disease outbreaks, and
tree mortality in the interior West, the Southwest, and Alaska.
He said cocoa farmers are encouraged to engage in climate smart cocoa production by plating improved seeds and
increasing the
number of forest
trees per ha
of cocoa at least 19
trees per ha.
I have been playing with various
tree ring age groups using the Steve M emulated RCS algorithm and found that the group with
tree ring ages less than 99 years does not converge even when I
increased the
number of iterations (maxiter) from 200 to 400.
In his piece, McIntyre replaces a
number (12)
of these original measurement series with more data (34 series) from a single location (not one
of the above) within the Yamal region, at which the
trees apparently do not show the same overall growth
increase registered in our data.»
Those big businesses are the first to receive their set
numbers of trees, whereas the smaller businesses are forced to shop around and
increase prices.
Torneträsk
tree growth is representative
of a wide area in northern Fennoscandia (Briffa et al. 1992; Gouirand et al. 2007) and the
tree - ring data have been used in a
number of high resolution large - scale climate reconstructions (Jones et al. 1998; D'Arrigo et al. 1999; Mann et al. 1999; Briffa 2000; Briffa et al. 2002b; Esper et al. 2002; Mann and Jones 2003; Luterbacher et al. 2004; Moberg et al. 2005) with the objective to place the documented late - twentieth century temperature
increase (IPCC 2007) in a longer time - scale perspective.
The results
of the study indicate that the three largest options for
increasing the
number and size
of trees (reforestation, avoiding forest loss, and better forestry practices) could cost - effectively remove 7 billion tonnes
of carbon dioxide annually by 2030, equivalent to taking 1.5 billion gasoline - burning cars off the roads.
The
number of trees in California's Sierra Nevada forests killed by drought, a bark beetle epidemic and warmer temperatures has dramatically
increased since last year, raising fears they will fuel catastrophic wildfires and endanger people's lives, officials said Wednesday.
This means while there is energy being converted, none is created or destroyed (Law
of Thermodynamics
Number One) nevertheless everything tends toward decay; for example, a
tree decaying, which is an
increase of entropy or uselessness.