Sentences with phrase «more tropical vegetation»

The front nine is not unlike an English parkland course but with more tropical vegetation, while the back nine is the trickier half, with undulating fairways, lakes, and raised greens.

Not exact matches

«Lush green tropical vegetation can be ripped away by a storm's strong winds, leaving the satellite with a view of more bare ground.

Then, comparing the environmental conditions such as climate, vegetation and human impact at these locations to sites across tropical Africa where there was an absence of apes, the researchers were able to more precisely calculate the «suitable environmental conditions» — or habitat — necessary for apes to live.

Rowland is also investigating whether severe drought hampers the ability of tropical vegetation to absorb more CO2 as the atmospheric concentration rises.

Whether you come to the Cairns Daintree and Cape Tribulation region to study or view rare wildlife, tropical birds, native plants and vegetation or the picturesque sandy coral beaches that border the rainforest you will be more than delighted in Mother Nature's masterpiece.

More than 60 percent of the island is covered in lush tropical vegetation and protected within three national parks, including the Morne Trois Piton National Park, which has been named a World Heritage Site.

The landscape of Bali is everything you might expect on a tropical island and more... lush jungle vegetation, waterfalls, endless rice terraces, white and black beaches and volcanic mountains.

Combining the ocean, mountains and tropical vegetation in perfect harmony, Casa Gran Dia is so much more than simply a place to vacation.

Crowned by majestic coconut palms which characterise the Maldives the vegetation on all islands are quite similar; rings of tropical vegetation adapting to a variety of environments salt resistant and hardy varieties closer to the beach - line giving way to shrubs and plants and more delicate and dense greenery towards the centre.

The property has more than half an acre of lush tropical vegetation for guests to explore, including fruit trees from which you are welcome to pick fresh fruit.

But instead of an uninhabited, unbearably hot swamp ruled by primeval reptilian life and aggressive tropical vegetation, one enters an urban jungle of another sort: a more hospitable space populated with body parts and figures, both small and large, of diverse materials and colours, existing together in harmony courtesy of artists Rebecca Ackroyd, Kira Freije and Florence Peake.

American researchers have created a «wall - to - wall» carbon storage map of Africa, Asia and South America that shows tropical vegetation contains 21 % more carbon than previously thought.

E.g., human - caused albedo variations from desertification, and to some extent tropical deforestation, were connected with past global climate changes by Sagan et al. (1979); a pioneering model confirming «the long - held idea that the surface vegetation... is an important factor in the Earth's climate» was Shukla and Mintz (1982); Amazon Basin: Salati and Vose (1984); more recently, see Kutzbach et al. (1996).

Droughts in tropical regions and the vegetation's inability to absorb the current CO2 levels represent a part of the organization's apprehension - according to the bulletin, no more than a half of the emissions can be absorbed, which results in the emissions remaining in the atmosphere for long periods of time.

The West Siberian Plain — the world's largest — extends east from the Urals to the Yenisey River.8 Stretching from the Arctic Ocean to the foothills of the Altay Mountains in southern Russia, the plain encompasses more than 618 million acres (2.5 million square kilometers).8, 9 The region contains all the major vegetation zones except for tropical forests, including some of the world's largest swamps and floodplains and vast boreal forests.8, 9

With tropical forests, in general, the majority of carbon storage takes place in above - ground vegetation; in temperate forests it's more evenly split and in the case of boreal forests the balance tilts towards more stored in soil below - ground.

American scientists have created the first «wall - to - wall» carbon storage map that shows tropical vegetation contains 21 % more carbon than previously thought and that up to 12 % less carbon may have been released into the atmosphere due to deforestation.