Sentences with phrase «native plant cover»

Where sheep grazing was prevalent, the native plant cover has been damaged, and erosion and gullying has been a problem in some areas.

«The strengthened connection between Redwood Creek and its historic floodplain, increased native plant cover and resulting wildlife cover, reduced flooding, improved access, and expanded education and volunteer stewardship opportunities make the Redwood Creek Restoration Project one of the most important of its kind on the West Coast.»

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Increase forest cover with native species in degraded areas, improve the climate resiliency of coffee plants as a result of restoring tree cover, and enhance habitat value in the coffee - growing landscape.

Understory plant cover for both native and nonnative invasive species was positively associated with the AM fungi, however, invasive species cover increased at a rate 12 times greater than native species as AM - tree - dominance increased.

Over the course of the last two millennia, however, the native Malagasy and foreign visitors slowly and relentlessly denuded the primeval forests that once covered the island in order to plant rice and pasture fields.

Then we start our descent, going into rainforest with a beautiful cover of vegetation with orchids, bromeliads, ferns and many other native plants.

Out the back door is the breathtakingly spectacular «Ojai Gardens» the renown botanical gardens that feature native plants from South Africa, Australia, and California and covers more than 20 acres.

Explore Wave Hill with Tod Winston, Manager of National Audubon's Plants for Birds program, to see native plants that provide food, cover, and nesting sites for our local avian populPlants for Birds program, to see native plants that provide food, cover, and nesting sites for our local avian populplants that provide food, cover, and nesting sites for our local avian population.

Native to central and southern United States and northern Mexico, this member of the mallow family (Malvaceae) is an attractive and tough ground - cover plant.

Under the linden tree in front of Wave Hill House are several patches of this excellent native ground cover plant.

Floating islands covered with native plants serve as «biodiversity «life rafts»» for aquatic species, while aerial sculptures give hawks, owls, and eagles a safe place to roost and nest «in areas where taking off and landing on older power poles may result in electrocution, or areas where human disturbance may make nesting difficult.»

Their impact on the land restores a healthy soil microbiome, increases the density of plants that cover the land surface, and — when incorporating perennial and native forages or trees — are able to store even more carbon deep underground, increasing its long - term stability.

But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).

These include the establishment of effective protected areas that would encompass a significant proportion of terrestrial, aquatic and aerial habitats, halting the degradation of forests and other native land cover and restoring those that have already been degraded; shifting diets to plant - based foods; reducing fertility rates by ensuring access to family planning services; and developing new green technologies.

+ + + + + If you sort the collection by «sort field,» the entries will be arranged in the following order: 1) annual, biennual, and reseeding wild flowers; 2) generic native plants; 3) grasses; 4) ground covers; 5) large trees; 6) perennials; 7) shrubs; 8) small trees; 8) vines; 9) wetland plants.

All of the plants used are native, and they cover the seats, windows and floors.