Sentences with phrase «of forest recovery»

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«Sustainable forest procurement, along with the high old corrugated containers (OCC) recovery rate provide for a well - balanced system of fiber and supports the sustainability of our industry's products.»

I'm sure the Brazilian coffee isn't shaded, since cerrado is savannah, not forest, and RA standards call for «Farms in areas where the original natural vegetation is not forest must dedicate at least 30 % of the farm area for conservation or recovery of the area's typical ecosystems.»

He hit his tee shot on that hole into a miniature forest of pine needles, and he needed a recovery on his second shot.

At noon, Sen. Tom Croci and Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky make an announcement on behalf of Sandy victims regarding the New York Rising Program and the Governor's Office of Storm Recovery, 230 Forest Rd. West, Mastic Beach Village, Hauppauge.

On the environment, an Akufo - Addo government, he said, would implement a policy that will lead to the effective management of forest reserves, the recovery of millions of acres of land devastated by open - cast and alluvial mining, and the protection of water bodies, stressing that «protecting our environment is a necessity, not an option».

After 2 years, in the plots missing 75 % of the forest algae, the ecosystem tipped over to entirely turf algae and C. amentacea never came back, showing that recovery length could predict ecosystem collapse, the researchers reported yesterday in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Moreover, even after people move out, the recovery of forests can not always be left to chance — it needs active management and ecologically friendly government policies.

«When we measure that a particular stand of mature forest is accumulating carbon, it is difficult to say whether that might be due to recovery from some unrecognized disturbance long ago or whether it is due to more recent changes in climate and CO2,» explained Woods Hole Research Center Senior Scientist and Executive Director Eric Davidson, lead author of the review, in an e-mail.

The researchers» next step is to explore the time to recovery of forests under heavier commercial logging intensities across TmFO.

In Western Australia, emerging evidence suggests that increases in the number of tropical fish are preventing the recovery of kelp forest damaged by a heat wave in 2011.

These models provide new information on the impacts of stump wood energy on the carbon sink capacity of forests, the biodiversity of forest nature and the soil structure of recovery areas.

The team's finding of ancient ecological recovery from a forest fire will help broaden scientists» understanding of biodiversity immediately before the mass extinction of dinosaurs.

By leading to variability in the density and size of trees that grow during recovery, large fires reduce the future vulnerability of forests to bark beetle attacks and broad - scale outbreaks.

The vast magnificent savanna, forests, wooded savannas, and deep rivers habitats remain largely intact with potential for recovery of wildlife populations if urgent and robust conservation security measures are taken in this strategic area, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), ECOFAUNE + / AGRECO, and the Ministry of Environment of Central African Republic said in a report issued today.

Jindong Zhang, a post-doctoral research associate in CSIS, spent several months over a period of four years in Wolong dodging landslides, mudslides and rubble strewn roads to survey forest recovery at a finer scale than can be observed from satellites and getting a better handle on the nuances of tree species, height and soil conditions.

Aditya Joshi, a researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Trust and an author on the paper, says, «Conservation of corridors and forest areas outside of the protected area network is critical for long - term demographic and genetic viability of many endangered species and future growth and recovery of tiger populations.»

The study set 123 PantheraCam camera traps over a 1,000 km2 forest block located in a protection zone specially designated by the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park Authority to improve park protection and aid in the recovery of flagship species.

The reintroduction has been hampered by rules that require recapture of wolves who set up territories outside the narrowly defined recovery area and that do not allow release of captive wolves into New Mexico's Gila National Forest, where there's extensive suitable habitat.

Tropical forest restoration: fast resilience of plant biomass contrasts with slow recovery of stable soil C stocks.

Patients at Brenner Children's Hospital, part of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, will have extra help and attention in their care and recovery thanks to new technology and the generosity of others.

The Center requested that the policy be applied not just in the Apache National Forest portion of the Blue Wolf Range Recovery Area, but also on all lands governed by the Apache - Sitgreaves National Forest's Revised Forest Plan.

Using tree ring data, Anderegg's team measured the recovery of tree stem growth following droughts dating back to 1948 in more than 1,300 forests worldwide.

In between come the battles in the hedgerows of Normandy, the breakout at St. - Lô, the Falaise Gap, Patton tearing through France, the liberation of Paris, the attempt to leap the Rhine in Operation Market - Garden, the near - miraculous German recovery, the battles around Metz and in the Hurtgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge — the biggest battle in the history of the U.S. Army — the capture of the bridge at Remagen, and finally the overrunning of Germany.

The purchase of the trailer was made possible by more than $ 22,000 in donations and grants from the Dog Owners Training Club of Lynchburg, James River Kennel Club, Lake Forest Animal Hospital, VCA Boonsboro Animal Hospital, Peaks View Animal Hospital, Piedmont Veterinary Medical Association, American Tibetan Mastiff Association, Dog Judges Association of America, Rhodesian Ridgeback Club of the United States, Finnish Spitz Club of America, Siberian Husky Club of America and AKC Reunite, the nation's largest non-profit pet identification and recovery service.

More than 50 Maui residents join Trilogy crew volunteers, representatives from Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project, and members of the resort's Sustainability Team to SCUBA, snorkel and free dive to retrieve harmful marine debris.

Temporal and spatial patterns of disturbance and recovery in a kelp forest community.

[36][37] The recovery of kelp forests from barren states has been documented following dramatic perturbations, such as urchin disease or large shifts in thermal conditions.

Bike Maui is a proud member of the Hawaii Visitor Bureau, and The Activity Owners Association of Hawaii, a certified Sustainable Tourism provider, and a supporter of The Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project and Friends of Haleakala National Park.

Other project funds have come from the Pacific Salmon Foundation, Habitat Conservation Trust Fund, British Columbia Conservation Foundation, Greater Georgia Basin Steelhead Recovery Program, B.C. Hydro, BHP - Billiton, Ministry of Transportation, Kwakiutl First Nation, Port Hardy Fish and Wildlife Club, Quatsino First Nation, Western Forest Products and numerous community organizations and local businesses.

Redwoods Rising, a new collaboration between Save the Redwoods League, the National Park Service, and California State Parks, will greatly accelerate the pace of redwood forest recovery and help protect Redwood National and State Parks» remaining old - growth groves.

Nationally, Costas Verdes is now leading the way in the recovery of native coastal forest systems.

In an effort to advance the sustainable recovery and the best use of the products of urban forests, Urban Wood Encounter challenges furniture makers and designers to create inspiring, thoughtful, and beautiful furniture from this regionally abundant and underutilized natural resource.

Here's the publisher's comment for Douglas MacCleery's American Forests: A History of Resiliency & Recovery at Powells book store.

«We also present a set of global vulnerability drivers that are known with high confidence: (1) droughts eventually occur everywhere; (2) warming produces hotter droughts; (3) atmospheric moisture demand increases nonlinearly with temperature during drought; (4) mortality can occur faster in hotter drought, consistent with fundamental physiology; (5) shorter droughts occur more frequently than longer droughts and can become lethal under warming, increasing the frequency of lethal drought nonlinearly; and (6) mortality happens rapidly relative to growth intervals needed for forest recovery.

Recovery of forests following the collapse of human populations in the Americas after the arrival of Europeans may have driven the period of global cooling from 1500 - 1750 known as the Little Ice Age, report researchers speaking at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

Carbon consequences of forest disturbance and recovery across the conterminous United States

The frequency and severity of droughts are only expected to increase, Anderegg says, and once climate models take recovery time into account, we may find that future forests will harbor even less carbon than current models predict.

We added one criterion — high severity burn patches — because a nearby study on the recovery of ponderosa pine forests after wildfire demonstrated that mature forests suitable for thinning would not likely develop in areas that had burned with high severity within the timeframe of this study [34].

Contrary to widespread belief of northward boreal forest expansion due to recent warming, lack of post-fire recovery during the last centuries, in comparison with active tree regeneration more than 1000 years ago, indicates that the current climate does not favour such expansion.

Recovery of the boreal forest after a long period of deforestation will require sustained warming which, indeed, has currently been taking place since the mid-1990s in Eastern subarctic Canada.

And taken globally, increases in tropical forest carbon may be at least partly explained not by carbon fertilization, but by a recovery of carbon after past disturbances such as fire (both natural and anthropogenic) and land clearing by humans even centuries earlier - a factor that will reduce sink strength over time as forests recover.

In the southern portion of today's deciduous - coniferous transition forests the simulated dieback was indistinct and recovery by deciduous tree species was rapid.

Given the forest recovery going on in many regions, including the US and most of Europe, and even China - how much of the missing sink can be explained by carbon fertilization versus regrowth of these rapidly growing forests and patches of trees?

The simulated effects of changing monthly temperature and precipitation included a distinctive dieback of extant trees at most locations, with only partial recovery of biomass in areas of today's temperate deciduous forest.

Future research will examine how climate change around the globe may affect the recovery of the world's forests.

Even with warming of 2 °C, we can expect to see adverse effects on water availability in critical river basins, a more than doubling of forest fires in Amazonia by 2050, impacted coral reef recovery from bleaching events, among other effects.

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

«It will be important to bring their cutting - edge data and expertise to bear as the state seeks to address the effects of this epidemic of dying trees and aid in the recovery of our forests,» says Ashley Conrad - Saydah, deputy secretary for climate policy with the California Environmental Protection Agency.

Researchers also determined that the recovery of forests is also slowed by the loss of seeds, as well as increased distances between charred areas.

«If droughts continue to occur at 5 — 10 - year frequency, or increase in frequency, large areas of Amazonian forest canopy likely will be exposed to the persistent effect of droughts and the slow recovery of forest canopy structure and function,» wrote researchers in a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in December 2012.