Sentences with phrase «of forest vegetation»

Forest - tundra environments are among the best templates to analyse the spatiotemporal development of forest vegetation over several hundred years in an area of sufficient but representative size, at least several tens of square kilometres.

In just a few years, wanton and deliberate destruction of the escarpment environment through charcoal burning, logging for timber and fuel wood, ring - debarking of medicinal trees and overgrazing has resulted to virtual depletion of forest vegetation cover.

The accommodation comprises 25 individual bungalows, in perfect harmony with the scenery, a beautiful mix of forest vegetation and waters of the emerald sea.

Not exact matches

Once a vast carpet of healthy vegetation, the Amazon rain forest is changing rapidly.

«The waste waters are directly pumped into the ponds at the foot of the mountain, polluting the whole water system and damaging large amounts of forest, vegetation and paddy fields.»

It encourages the removal of forests and vegetation, which promotes erosion of soil and demotes the regenerative capacity of the planet.

Keeping native vegetation such as natural forests or grasslands as fragments within production areas or along streams and rivers can make a lot of difference for conservation.

From where I stood, it was hard to distinguish forest from coffee — and in fact, the coffee plantings are so well - interlaced with natural vegetation that ocelots, sloths, and a wealth of other tropical species roam the farm.

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.»

In other areas, such as portions of Brazil where the native vegetation is not forest, shade canopy cover may be less appropriate ecologically or agronomically.

Evidence suggests that the Indians, through the burning of remnants of logs, branches, weeds, crop remains, felled secondary growth vegetation, near - by forest litter, and cut material brought to the fields along with kitchen - fire carbon and ash from the houses, modified the fertility of their soils.

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And tree frogs in particular may have benefited from the massive loss of vegetation and subsequent rebounding of forests on the planet.

The study also looked beyond deforestation, analysing changes between different types of vegetation, from evergreen forests to savannas, shrublands, grasslands, croplands and wetlands.

«We will evaluate these responses for the first time at a regional scale using remotely sensed indicators of vegetation condition and fire - induced tree mortality to measure the response of floodplain forests to inter-annual flood variability and extreme climate events,» said Marcia Macedo, a research associate at the Woods Hole Research Center.

The findings of a U.S. Forest Service study shed light on how vegetation responds to severe wildfire and whether further disturbances from logging affect regrowth.

The authors also point out that the focus of the Forest Code on riparian forest patches should not undermine the need to maintain and restore native vegetation in areas further away from the stForest Code on riparian forest patches should not undermine the need to maintain and restore native vegetation in areas further away from the stforest patches should not undermine the need to maintain and restore native vegetation in areas further away from the streams.

«If future studies continue to not find strong longer - term salvage harvest effects on forest understory vegetation,» Knapp said, «the debates about pros and cons of post-fire management could then narrow to topics such as snag habitat and woody fuel levels that are unequivocally impacted by salvage harvest.»

Shortly before my Benin Lama Forest consultancy began, the opportunity arose to conduct a long - term study, financially supported by GTZ's Tropical Ecology Support Programme, on the influence of poaching on monkeys and the secondary impacts on the vegetation in the Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire.

Tropical forests covered most of the globe, including Europe, and even Antarctica was covered with vegetation.

Determining the rate of old carbon release from permafrost had been a challenge for researchers, since vegetation that grows in thawed permafrost in forest and tundra systems releases its own modern organic carbon into soils, which readily decomposes and dilutes the «old carbon» signal from thawing permafrost soils.

Researchers in Queensland, Australia, assessed the condition of fragmented eucalyptus forests at 10 sites using conventional measures — including the size of forest patches, vegetation characteristics and the number of bird species detected — and sound recordings.

This was revealed when the researchers merged their forest coverage maps with other maps depicting different types of vegetation.

Vegetation change underway in boreal forests as a result of climate change creates a feedback loop that prompts more warming, scientists say

A first - of - its - kind study led by researchers at the University of Florida shows that the dramatic loss of elephants, which disperse seeds after eating vegetation, is leading to the local extinction of a dominant tree species, with likely cascading effects for other forest life.

One of the most important exoplanetary biosignatures is a specific reflection pattern on the land surface named «red - edge», which is caused by vegetation such as forests and grasslands.

So, when you add all those up the deforestation is a little bit more, but we also know that somewhere else in the vegetation, CO2 is being taken from the atmosphere and that uptake, that's still debated whether it's primarily in the tropics or primarily in the boreal forest of the Northern Hemisphere.

To examine historical changes in growth and mortality rates of the vegetation there, the scientists looked at forest biomass, the cumulative result of past growth.

Indeed, the pessimists among them talk about the planet being on the brink of a «global pandemic» of wildfires as a vast tinderbox of flammable shrubs and dead vegetation accumulates in forests, brush and grassland.

«The lower capacity of floodplain forests to recover suggests that these areas can be trapped by recurrent fires in an open vegetation state more easily than the uplands,» says Milena Holmgren of Wageningen University & Research and a coauthor of the study.

Scrubby vegetation, made up of grasses, ferns and fast - growing pioneer bushes and trees, was all that remained after the forest had been stripped to allow tin mining and vegetable cultivation.

The work coordinated by University of Leeds (UK) researcher Catherine Scott was also based on years of analyses and survey over the functioning of tropical and temperate forests, the gases emitted by vegetation, and their impact on climate regulation.

The vegetation is so dense in these forests, for instance, that after comparing his previous on - the - ground survey tracks with LiDAR data, Fisher realized he had walked within 10 meters of one of its largest pyramids on the Angamuco site without seeing it.

«Most climate models that incorporate vegetation are built on short - term observations, for example of photosynthesis, but they are used to predict long - term events,» said Bond - Lamberty, who works at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. «We need to understand forests in the long term, but forests change slowly and researchers don't live that long.»

This means that more carbon is accumulating in forests and other vegetation and soils in the Northern Hemisphere during the summer, and more carbon is being released in the fall and winter, says study lead scientist Heather Graven of SIO.

With the data they simulated 130 years of growth following the Yellowstone Fires using a computer model calibrated to the study area and used by forest and land managers around the U.S., called the Forest Vegetation Simuforest and land managers around the U.S., called the Forest Vegetation SimuForest Vegetation Simulator.

For ideal survival, then, Vernasco says fledglings do well with a «mosaic» of habitats made up of forests that differ in age and thus vegetation structure.

Microclimate is the climate near the ground which can be colder or warmer than in the free atmosphere, depending on local topography (e.g. north vs. south side of a hill, higher vs. lower elevation) and vegetation (e.g. young sparse vs. old dense forest).

In his proclamation designating this 129,000 - acre site in mid-2000, Clinton said the Ironwood Forest presents a «quintessential view of the Sonoran Desert» and pointed to vegetation including its «ironwood, palo verde and saguaro.»

The archipelago stretches over 1200 kilometres of ocean, so the climate ranges from near - Arctic to almost subtropical, with a corresponding range of vegetation — from tundra in the north to dense forest in the south.

In the «business as usual» case, all of southern Spain turns into desert, deciduous forests invade most of the mountains, and shrubland vegetation replaces most of the deciduous forests in a large part of the Mediterranean basin.

Even then, they hold up tiny vials to a high window of light in the forest canopy and recite treasures for Fisher to scribble down in his «Rite in the Rain» notebook: «Tetraponera, low vegetation.

Illegal logging and slash - and - burn practices to clear land for farming — two major sources of income for impoverished Malagasy — have destroyed most of the country's native vegetation, including 90 % of its original forests.

It took Asner and his team eight years to develop a technique that can detect and quantify selective logging by analyzing each pixel in the image for spectral data — which contains information about the extent of vegetation in the forest canopy, the amount of debris on the forest floor and how much bare soil is exposed — while also taking into consideration climate conditions.

During the last twenty years, scientists worked hard to protect and restore the scattered patches of a dilapidated forest and its surroundings of agricultural and fallow vegetation in southern Benin.

Dozens of fires are raging across California, Oregon and Washington, many triggered by lightening and spreading rapidly through parched forest and vegetation as the West Coast endures years of drought and warmer - than - average winters.

The browning of the forest canopy is consistent with observed decreases in the amount of water available to plants, whether that is in the form of rainfall, water stored in the ground, water in near - surface soils, or water within the vegetation.

The topography of East Africa completely changed: from a homogeneous flat region covered in moist forest, to a mountainous landscape with plateaus and deep rift valleys, where vegetation varied from cloud forest to desert scrub.

These numbers clearly indicate that sequestering a significant fraction of projected emissions in vegetation is likely to be very difficult, especially as forests are cleared to make way for agriculture and communities.