Sentences with phrase «of vegetated»

Loss of vegetated coastal habitats should lead to a decline in pH, whilst loss in the cover of corals and oyster reefs and regime shifts towards a great dominance of macroalgae may lead to increased pH (Anthony et al. 2011).

Often referred to as grey infrastructure alternatives, these practices include the design, installation and maintenance of vegetated green roofs and walls, bioswales and infiltration gardens (rain gardens, etc.), urban forests, green streets and pervious pavements.

Scientific studies had, for instance, revealed an «overall expansion of desert and contraction of vegetated areas» on that continent.

The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) launched CAN / CSA A123.24 - 15 in 2015 as a testing standard to determine response of a vegetated roof assembly (VRA) to Wind Pressure and Wind Flow.

We have successful projects growing across North America on almost 2 million square feet of vegetated roofs.»

Linwood Pendleton of Duke University, North Carolina has produced a paper, Estimating Global «Blue Carbon» Emissions from Conversion and Degradation of Vegetated Coastal Ecosystems, with a large group of fellow - scientists which elucidates this large calculation.

The resort offers an escape into an energizing atmosphere of vegetated sand dunes, unspoiled white sandy beaches and the signature natural lagoon completing this ideal getaway.

Spacious federation house nestled at the base of a vegetated sand dune.

In 2012, for example, longer - than - normal fire weather seasons across an unprecedented 47.4 % of the vegetated area of the US (Fig. 4, 2012) culminated in a near - record setting ∼ 3.8 MHa of burned area.

The «Coffee Growing — Environmental Leadership» section covers water body protection, including criteria for width and type of vegetated buffer zones along permanent and seasonal water bodies, and use of chemicals or waste storage near water bodies; protection of soil resources, including measures to control and prevent erosion and use of organic mulches and cover crops; conserving biodiversity, including maintaining a shade canopy, protecting wildlife, and establishment of conservation areas; and environmental management, including pest and disease control.

Not exact matches

The hermaphroditic blasphemy is a generated or vegetated Christ and a virgin Eve — the orthodox image of Christ, for the Church castrated Jesus when it locked the memory of his generation in the image of a virgin birth, just as it dehumanized and falsely spiritualized his body in its belief in the ascension.

There «disillusionment» enters the individual existence suddenly and unexpectedly and when, as may happen, it comes at the beginning of that existence, nothing is left to the one who is «saved» but the senseless and aimless vegetating of his only gifts.

Go to your swiss vacation villa and vegetate for 10 years that the world of football can heal properly without your poison.

These days it's so easy for kids to want to vegetate in front of the TV or a computer, rather than actually use their little brains.

I'm sure that, like me, you spent a great deal of time vegetating, watching insane amounts of television, eating obscene amounts of food, and in general recovering from the semester so that you could come back refreshed and ready to (re) tackle the beast this semester.

They estimate that, across about 60 % of the global vegetated area, greening has buffered warming by about 14 %; for the remaining areas, which mostly include boreal zones, LAI trends have amplified the raise in air temperatures, leading to an additional warming of about 10 %.

The resulting maps provide a complete characterization of how traits vary within and among over 50,000 50 km x 50 - km cells across the entire vegetated land surface.»

The results indicated the soil chemistry and root - zone nutrient budgets have been altered by the Acacia tree cover, and the trajectory of change is in a direction that does not conform to any of the naturally vegetated sites from Guam.

By examining an old crevasse along Bayou Lafourche, a precursor of the Mississippi River, the researchers found that mud can build enough land to keep up with sea level rise if the diversion flows into existing vegetated areas protected from marine forces.

In ecological terms, these spiders are marine predators, and this explains how tiny, barren islands can support much denser populations of spiders than lushly vegetated inland areas.

Since sediment carried by Bayou Lafourche 1,200 to 600 years ago only contained about 20 percent sand, but an abundance of mud, the researchers suggest that land building can be maximized by gearing muddy diversions toward vegetated areas rather than to capture sandy deposits along the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.

From a quarter to half of Earth's vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.

While most of the region endured dry, freezing weather, pockets of «refugia,» or vegetated areas not affected by climate change, remained scattered along the Bering land bridge throughout the LGM period.

The rarity of the Swainson's warbler has long been attributed to its finicky preference for large areas of densely vegetated breeding habitat in the southeastern U.S. and wintering range in the Caribbean basin.

Leandro Silveira, president of the Jaguar Conservation Fund, said the big cats used to be persecuted by cattle ranchers, but his research on radio - collared animals has shown that the cats are able to prowl through cane thickets and find refuge in vegetated watercourses.

But tree roots stabilized river banks and created narrow, fixed channels and vegetated islands, while log jams helped create the formation of new channels.

This study assumes that mosquitoes stay on the block where they're born — in the safety of the cool, moist, vegetated area where they hatched.

At least half of current vegetated areas are predicted to shift to a different type of vegetation class, with a general trend of now - present grasses and small shrubs yielding to larger shrubs and trees as the climate warms, the scientists said.

The frequency of long fire weather seasons increased across 53.4 % of the global vegetated area (62.4 M km2) as observed between 1996 and 2013, compared with 1979 — 1996, with decreased frequency only observed across 34.6 % (40.4 M km2)(Fig. 3b).

We show that fire weather seasons have lengthened across 29.6 million km2 (25.3 %) of the Earth's vegetated surface, resulting in an 18.7 % increase in global mean fire weather season length.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

The researchers also determined that to achieve the best water quality in the Los Angeles River watershed, which covers 824 square miles and is the largest watershed in Los Angeles County, it could take 138,000 vegetated swales (shallow, sloped channels of vegetation) and 83,000 dry ponds (low - lying, depressed areas near rivers and lakes that typically are used to help clean stormwater).

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.»

The liberators are deeply shocked by what they see - thousand of emaciated human beings are vegetating between life and death.

Something sweet & gently amusing that you can vegetate on the sofa in front of on a Sunday afternoon and this is exactly what you should expect of and what you should do with «Chalet Girl».

If you want the luxury of time off to care for a family, to vegetate on the couch, or to «follow your passion,» then you can't have the extras.

Prevention of this infection can be done by managing the outdoor environment of the dog and by not allowing him to spend time in soil - rich, decayed, vegetated areas.

From the towering mountains of the Drakensberg to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean with no fewer than five Blue Flag beaches, KwaZulu Natal is a subtropical, densely vegetated land of hot, humid summers and enviable winters.

Hotel delle Muse is located in the elegant, lushly - vegetated, quiet, residential area of Rome known as Parioli, where guests enjoy free, unrestricted... Read more access for their vehicles.

The rolling to precipitous mountain canyons of white - hued sandstone painted with iron splashes — a land sparsely vegetated and pathless.

GET YOUR PICTURE TAKEN AT the estuary mouth with a backdrop of Mapelane, the highest vegetated dune in the world.

You are now flying over the southern end of Ambergris Caye, note the vegetated island with numerous interisland lagoons with shallow water.

5.5 - 6 - Low lying carbonate islands off to the right are the south end of Hicks Caye, mainly mangrove vegetated with supratidal flats that are flooded during high tides and after heavy rains.

It is South Africa's largest vegetated canyon and is home to many species of plant, bird and animal.

Here you will observe ancient domes of volcanic rock displaying fascinating geological formations and a vivid array of colours, as well as shimmering salt lakes and densely vegetated sand hills which bloom with wildflowers after rain.

In the Heart of Maputaland, nestling behind the world's highest vegetated sand dunes about 5 km from the sea, Sodwana Bay Lodge has been carefully designed to match the rustic, eco-oriented nature of the region.

The route is the same travelers normally follow from the Kona direction when driving toward HAWAI`I VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK and offers views of landscapes that run from mauka (mountains) to makai (ocean), including a rainforest reserve, well - vegetated volcanic terrain, sweeping vistas of the ocean as well as the volcanoes MAUNA LOA AND KILAUEA.

The Whitsunday Islands provide a magnificent vista of green vegetated islands and spectacular sandy beaches spread over azure waters.

Most of the Island is vegetated with fantastic thick forests.