Sentences with phrase «of land disturbance»

This was the shortest route through that part of the state, and as a result it had the least amount of land disturbance and affected the fewest land - owners,» he said.

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For species like woodland caribou, a viable landscape must contain 65 per cent undisturbed land, and even something as small as a pipeline right - of - way creates a 500m effective disturbance in the landscape.

Perhaps their acceptance of such contacts helps to explain why, as experts have told us, there are fewer serious emotional disturbances of a neurotic or psychotic kind than in our own lands.

They listed the «occupation» of Palestinian lands, Israel's separation barrier with the West Bank, its military checkpoints, political prisoners, demolition of homes and disturbance of Palestinians» socio - economic lives as factors that have made life increasingly difficult for Palestinians.

The occurrence of an extreme ecological disturbance, Hurricane Mitch, provided an opportunity to assess a decade of sustainable land management practices in Nicaragua and to see if the practices were actually leading to higher levels of sustainability.

The study authored by Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists John Coulston, David Wear, and Jim Vose is the first to isolate the impacts of forest disturbances, such as fire, disease, and cutting, as well as the impacts of land use change using permanent monitoring locations across the Southeast making it one of the most thorough carbon studies completed.

The scientists made a startling discovery: rates of hillslope erosion before European settlement were about an inch every 2500 years, while during the period of peak land disturbance in the late 1800s and early 1900s, rates spiked to an inch every 25 years.

Because these other stabilization mechanisms are likely much less vulnerable to disturbance than anaerobic microsites, our research suggests that the impact of climate or land use change may release greater amounts of carbon from soils than we expected.»

The ecosystem, encompassing nearly 4 million acres from near Orlando to the Florida Bay, is threatened by a number of disturbances including changes in hydrology and land use.

The authors believe their findings can be used by land managers to predict likely outcomes related to forthcoming disturbances occurring as a result of grid development, and that protecting unaltered landscapes from fragmentation by transmission lines, roads, crested wheatgrass plantings and the invasion of other non-native vegetation is integral to stemming range expansion by ravens.

Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, and Tessa Thompson star as explorers and scientists on a mission to explore a colorful, spectral disturbance called «The Shimmer» that is engorging a mass of land in the American South.

The California Department of Fish and Game and the California State Lands Commission required that a bird roost and an artificial reef be built as mitigation for the disturbance to marine life that the removal caused.

Since 2005 they have worked to reduce disturbances to marine mammals on the BC coast and promote respect for the surrounding marine environment through on - water and land - based education, outreach and direct monitoring of activities.»

Both Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (all versions) that have the PREVIOUS STORIES page in their instruction booklet has «OUTER HEAVEN UPRISING,» «ZANZIBAR LAND DISTURBANCE,» and «SHADOW MOSES ISLAND INCIDENT.»

Solid Snake is brought out of retirement and is sent into Zanzibar Land to stop the disturbance.

Wilson echoes a common theme in politics and photography, much as when Misrach encountered lunch tables on salt flats: disturbance of the land colors American, environmental, or human history — and a contested history at that.

For this exhibition, which contains a section on each of the original themes, Rosler has subsumed herself under the name Temporary Office for Urban Disturbances to collaborate with scores of groups — such as 596 Acres, Inc., Center for Urban Pedagogy, New York City Community Land Initiative — and individuals, including LaToya Ruby Frazier, Gregory Sholette, and Robbie Conal.

Since disturbance or loss of habitat negatively affects bat populations, forest companies want to know how to effectively manage the land while reducing impacts to wildlife communities.

Climate change almost always exacerbates the problems caused by other environmental stressors including: land use change and the consequent habitat fragmentation and degradation; extraction of timber, fish, water, and other resources; biological disturbance such as the introduction of non-native invasive species, disease, and pests; and chemical, heavy metal, and nutrient pollution.

They say their findings, which focused on the effect titling had on forest clearing and disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon between 2002 and 2005, suggest that the increasing trend towards decentralized forest governance via granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to their lands could play a key role in global efforts to slow both tropical forest destruction, which the researchers note is responsible for about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the transportation sector, and climate change.»

The number of species projected to survive in these refugia (Fig. 4, E through H) depends critically on the ability to disperse, highlighting the importance of landscape connectivity and potential restoration in the face of increasing urbanization, land use change, and disturbance.

The paper spotlighted the need to «model the propagation of noise and light pollution from sources in energy developments, and identify the landscape characteristics (e.g., topography, elevation, and land cover) that may affect these sources of disturbance.»

The IPCC also reports that the resilience of many ecosystems around the world is likely to be exceeded this century by an unprecedented combination of climate change; disturbances associated with climate change, such as flooding, drought, wildfire, and insects; and other global change - drivers, including land - use changes, pollution, habitat fragmentation, urbanization, and growing human populations and economies.

Many other challenges such as the distortion of ecosystem services, the loss of biodiversity, the degradation of land, sprawling urbanization, worsening water scarcity, the disturbances in terrestrial and marine food chains or the ubiquitous pollution of all environmental systems have to be taken into consideration.

Antarctica is often thought of as a pristine land untouched by human disturbance.

On the bioproductivity and land - disturbance metrics of the Ecological Footprint.

(a) Ecoclimate teleconnections propagate land - atmosphere energy disturbances from the local region of disturbance to remote regions potentially having ecological consequences (taken from [14]-RRB-.

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.

Additional escalation of the mining impact occurs as conventional oil mining is supplanted by tar sands development, with mining and land disturbance from the latter producing land use - related greenhouse gas emissions as much as 23 times greater than conventional oil production per unit area [152], but with substantial variability and uncertainty [152]--[153].

The mid-12th century drought provides a baseline worst - case in terms of the temporal and spatial characteristics of drought during a warm period, but future water resources and drought planning should consider a number of other factors including trends in temperature, water demands, disturbance legacies, and possible land cover feedbacks.

According to Ferraro, protected areas are frequently located on low productivity lands, a characteristic that reduces the likelihood of human disturbance even in the absence of legal protection.

A Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper used remote sensing data to show that forest clearance and disturbance dropped sharply after the granting of land title to an indigenous community in Peru.

From the feast of st valentine for a month a violent wind with heavy rains day and night both by land and sea caused unheard of disturbance.

Researchers in the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park in the Bahamas, one of the areas hardest hit by anthropogenic disturbances and increasing ocean acidity, observed that parrot fishes gave the coral reefs an opportunity to regenerate by grazing away the algae blooms smothering the individual polyps.

The land ECV breakout group was asked to consider 10 ECVs related to surface observations: glaciers and ice caps / sheets, snow cover, soil moisture, fire disturbance, lakes, biomass, land cover, surface albedo, fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FPAR), and leaf area index (LAI).

Most of the dust that's settling in places like the San Juan mountains comes from the desert southwest, from land disturbances like farming, oil and gas drilling, cattle grazing, recreation and residential development on the southern end of the Colorado Plateau.

A few statutes provide for compensation to be paid in recognition of the disturbance to traditional land from mining.77 A number of regimes provide for royalties, or an amount equivalent to the royalties received by the state or federal government, to be paid to the Indigenous owners.

The Martu believe that if there is trust and respect between the Martu and miners, shown by the involvement of the Martu in all decisions about the land by negotiated heritage and access protocols, the use of Martu monitors to oversee land disturbance and the like, and fair compensation is paid to the Martu for the use of Martu land, then agreements can be reached.

... Compliance with paragraph 7 requires a statement why the applicant has the belief of likely interference or disturbance and so must contain identification of the relevant activity or activities, site or sites, area or areas and land or waters the subject of such belief.

a) The act is not likely to interfere directly with the carrying on of the community or social activities of the persons who are the holders... of native title in relation to the land or waters concerned; and b) The act is not likely to interfere with areas or sites of particular significance, in accordance with their traditions, to the persons who are the holders... of native title in relation to the land or waters concerned; and c) The act is not likely to involve major disturbance to any land or waters concerned or create rights whose exercise is likely to involve major disturbance to any land or waters concerned.

The Act allows government to use the expedited procedure only when it considers [14] that the proposed activity is not likely to (a) interfere directly with the community or social activities, (b) interfere with significant areas or sites, and (c) involve major disturbance of land.

The NTA allows government to use the expedited procedure only when it considers [79] that the proposed activity is not likely to (a) interfere directly with the community or social activities, (b) interfere with significant areas or sites, and (c) involve major disturbance of land.

That is, the «carrying on of the community or social activities» of the particular native title - holders, or with «areas or sites of particular significance» according to the traditions of the particular native title holders and is not itself likely to or create rights whose exercise is likely to «involve major disturbance to any land or waters concerned».

«Recipients of the Shared Footprints Award go above and beyond land and water stewardship, building and shared knowledge, improving air quality and reducing land disturbances,» says Boyko.