Sentences with phrase «land conversion scenarios»
While some forest - to - shrub land conversion scenarios resulted in higher stream flow, depending on factors such as the size and area covered by shrub leaves relative to tree leaves, Bart noted that a shrub - dominated landscape would not necessarily result in more water in stream.
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Because the future composition of shrub lands and the distribution of shrub species in the Sierra Nevada is unknown, the researchers examined stream flows under multiple possible scenarios of vegetation - type conversion in two Sierra Nevada watersheds.
«Scenario 3 also considers the conversion of natural and semi-natural vegetation that can be legally converted to cropland and the use of privately held land.»
Future coupling of demography with existing global land model predictions could enable assessment of these potentially important die - off responses [44], as well as implementation of more realistic reductions in tree loss to drive scenarios (i.e., enabling assessments of ecological changes less drastic or occurring on shorter time - scales than conversion from forest to grassland biomes).