Sentences with phrase «of vegetation in»

It also includes water usage, how the home itself makes use of rain water, the kinds of vegetation in and around the property, the construction materials and methods used on the property, alternative sustainable energy resources and more.

The Commission notes that there is currently uncertainty about the commercial harvesting of vegetation in a high preservation area (such as river reeds at Aurukun) for the use in traditional art and craft or to produce goods for sale.

Collapse of vegetation in the Sahara ≈ 5,000 years ago occurred more rapidly than orbital forcing (71, 72).

The role and importance of vegetation in the city, especially treed areas, needs much more attention.

However, this does not compensate for decreases of vegetation in Southern Latitudes.

Wramneby et al (2010) explored the regional interaction between climate and vegetation response using a RCM set - up, and highlighted the importance of this interaction for assessing the mean temperature response particularly at high latitudes (due to the role of vegetation in snow covered areas) and in water limited evaporation regimes (due to the role of vegetation in controlling surface evaporative cooling).

Any kind of detailed description that shows the location of each tree sampled, along with an overview of the vegetation in the area, should allow one to decide if sampling was sufficient numerically and appropriate biologically.

The role of vegetation in climate change is massive — and the above evapotranspiration is a major player with some reports of minus 0.6 C per year?

[S] cientists know that the density of buildings, the absorption of light by those buildings, and the relative lack of vegetation in cities are major contributors to the urban heat island effect.

A central cluster of vegetation in the diptych, Untitled, is continuous across the pair of panels, literary staging a confrontation between the interior space established in the composition and the exterior one imposed by its edge; Beaded Curtain (Red Apples) identifies in its title the dual function played by an allover crimson chevron design as fruit on an arboreal range and the scrim through which the greenery is glimpsed.

Vegetation Ceremonies by Carol Rubin, on display at the Studio Gallery now until February 28th, distills the very essence of all vegetation in its various natures and plants the abstraction onto canvas for viewers to experience.

We were able to see hundreds of Mayan pottery shards spread all over the site and got an idea of the construction and placement of the homes of the Mayan as well as get a feel for the type of vegetation in the area.

Ourika Valley which is a lush oasis of vegetation in the foothills of the magnificent Atlas Mountains.

Fernando Lockett's grainy 16 mm black - and - white cinematography captures the textural lushness of the vegetation in the city gardens and accentuates the architectural chiaroscuro of the colonial buildings.

But it's probably best not to weed out every bit of vegetation in your diet based on a reaction to one or two types.

The researchers found that the installation of cool pavement, which absorbs less heat, together with the installation of green roofs and an expansion of vegetation in cities are the most promising methods for combining heat islands.

This study highlights the key role of vegetation in controlling future terrestrial hydrologic response and emphasizes that the continental carbon and water cycles are intimately coupled over land and must be studied as an interconnected system.

«Vegetation controls the future of the water cycle: Engineers demonstrate the key role of vegetation in responding to rising CO2 levels and show how plants will regulate future dryness.»

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.

«LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) imaging is a great tool for looking at these geographic factors because it gives us a view of the land from above without all of the vegetation in the way,» Stark said.

Urbanization reduces the amount of vegetation in a habitat and increases impervious surfaces such as roads and rooftops.

To Prof. Lowell, the disappearance is due to the withering of vegetation in the autumn.

Cheerfully they had represented local gods of vegetation in the sacred marriage rites and cheerfully submitted themselves to the knife when their year was up.

Not exact matches

Despite the green hues in this image, these rocky islands are too cold to sustain more than a smattering of low - growing vegetation.

Wildfire seasons tend to fall in hotter and drier times of the year, when vegetation is vulnerable to burning.

Some islands fared better than others — vegetation on the west of Virgin Gorda (above) appears greener than the rest of the island probably because of shielding by hills in the island center.

Vegetation across much of the drought - stricken west eagerly soaked up the surfeit of water from the wet winter, leading to a rapid, vast growth spurt in trees, grasses, and shrubs in the spring.

Troye Sivan released his new single «Bloom» on Wednesday night along with a lyric video featuring a lithe, CGI version of the singer twisting in the air in the middle of an industrial building with various types of vegetation growing insi... Read

Clearing trees beside railway lines can cause soil erosion and even land slippageSandra Laville's article (Mile after mile of stumps: anger at trackside tree cull, 30 April) once again highlights decisions about tree care and management being made without a full understanding of the roles of trees and other vegetation in the landscape.

The Thing as it approached them spread outwards with prodigious rapidity as far as his eye could reach, filling the whole of space, while its feet brushed lightly over the thorny vegetation beside the torrent, its brow rose in the sky like a golden mist with the reddening sun behind it.

This was a beautiful region rich in virgin timber, resplendent with rolling hills and gentle valleys, full of vegetation and wild game — a prize waiting to be captured.

You then have to reestablish vegetation and then herbivores in order to build a supply of «meat» for the carnivores to eat.

Had our world not been of a spherical shape, had night and day not succeeded each other thanks to its rotation, life on the face of the earth exposed to heat would be extinct and in the portion left in the shade vegetation would not thrive.

The base of socialism was an unwritten contract: the citizen was not to attempt to interfere in public life, and the State would guarantee a problem» free vegetation (neither poor nor rich).

In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life.18 And thorns and thistles it will grow for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field.19 In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken.

Yahweh is not some sort of Baal, a blind and brutal natural force... His destiny, like that of His people, is not identical with the cycle of the seasons, the regular succession of the day and the night, the growth and decay of the vegetation; Yahweh is the Lord of history, whose word alone creates and preserves Israel in life.»

We have continually to remember that the spring festivals celebrating the return of the vegetation god on the third day were still being celebrated in the contemporary non-Jewish cultures of the Ancient Near East.

The myth of the «dying - and - rising god» may be called the earliest expression of hope in a world where for both creatures and vegetation it could easily be concluded that death had the last say.

The seasonal death and renewal of vegetation finds its representation in Inanna herself.

But they were trapped in the morass of polytheism; one of the reasons for this was that the traditional associations of various deities with particular phenomena — the sun, the moon, the stars, storms, vegetation, the sea, and so on — meant that the obvious multiplicity of nature kept getting in the way of their struggles to apprehend the unity of the divine.

In the Ugaritic tests dew was always associated with the restoration of vitality, and consequently played a part in the Baal myth, for the very good reason that in Palestine the night dew assists in keeping vegetation alive during the almost rainless four months of summer.14 Some also regard the reference to Leviathan, «that twisting sea - serpent» and «monster of the deep», in Isaiah 27:1, as an echo of a Phoenician tradition concerning a demonic monster who guarded the gate of the underworlIn the Ugaritic tests dew was always associated with the restoration of vitality, and consequently played a part in the Baal myth, for the very good reason that in Palestine the night dew assists in keeping vegetation alive during the almost rainless four months of summer.14 Some also regard the reference to Leviathan, «that twisting sea - serpent» and «monster of the deep», in Isaiah 27:1, as an echo of a Phoenician tradition concerning a demonic monster who guarded the gate of the underworlin the Baal myth, for the very good reason that in Palestine the night dew assists in keeping vegetation alive during the almost rainless four months of summer.14 Some also regard the reference to Leviathan, «that twisting sea - serpent» and «monster of the deep», in Isaiah 27:1, as an echo of a Phoenician tradition concerning a demonic monster who guarded the gate of the underworlin Palestine the night dew assists in keeping vegetation alive during the almost rainless four months of summer.14 Some also regard the reference to Leviathan, «that twisting sea - serpent» and «monster of the deep», in Isaiah 27:1, as an echo of a Phoenician tradition concerning a demonic monster who guarded the gate of the underworlin keeping vegetation alive during the almost rainless four months of summer.14 Some also regard the reference to Leviathan, «that twisting sea - serpent» and «monster of the deep», in Isaiah 27:1, as an echo of a Phoenician tradition concerning a demonic monster who guarded the gate of the underworlin Isaiah 27:1, as an echo of a Phoenician tradition concerning a demonic monster who guarded the gate of the underworld.

The majority of religious symbols reveal the World in its totality or one of its structures (night, water, heaven, stars, seasons, vegetation, temporal rhythms, animal life, etc.), or they refer to situations constitutive of all human existence, that is to say, to the fact that man is mortal, is a sexual being, and is seeking what today we call «ultimate reality.»

It is a result of fruit trees, seaweed, vegetation and decaying and pressurizing to form complex substances rich in essential minerals, amino acids, electrolytes and other beneficial compounds.

We live in El Paso, and we have a lot here — mountains, vegetation... And lots of mountains along the way.

Over 5,300 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was delivered to Hattah Lakes in spring 2015 to provide improved habitat and food resources for native fish and waterbirds, and support the ongoing reestablishment of water dependant vegetation.

increased cover and diversity of in - stream aquatic vegetation, particularly in areas of the Wakool River downstream of the confluence with Yallakool Creek

The elevated spring flows that improved the recruitment of semi-aquatic bank vegetation may explain the higher abundance of Murray River rainbow fish, listed as threatened in Victoria (as well as carp spawning and recruitment).

In addition to the volume released from Hume Dam, return flows and the Commonwealth's 151 GL of held South Australian allocation were delivered directly to the South Australian border to meet environmental demands in the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes and Coorong, and provide suitable habitat conditions (both salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation specieIn addition to the volume released from Hume Dam, return flows and the Commonwealth's 151 GL of held South Australian allocation were delivered directly to the South Australian border to meet environmental demands in the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes and Coorong, and provide suitable habitat conditions (both salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation speciein the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes and Coorong, and provide suitable habitat conditions (both salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation speciein the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation species.

In addition to this volume released from Hume Dam and the volume approved for the Coorong, return flows and the Commonwealth's 134 GL of held South Australian allocation were delivered directly to the South Australian border for meeting environmental demands in the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes Coorong and providing suitable habitat conditions (salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation specieIn addition to this volume released from Hume Dam and the volume approved for the Coorong, return flows and the Commonwealth's 134 GL of held South Australian allocation were delivered directly to the South Australian border for meeting environmental demands in the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes Coorong and providing suitable habitat conditions (salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation speciein the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes Coorong and providing suitable habitat conditions (salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation speciein the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation species.

A total of 367 GL of Commonwealth environmental water was released from Hume Dam to support in - channel, wetland and low elevation floodplain habitat throughout the River Murray for improving the condition, movement and recruitment of native fish — both silver (critically endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999) and golden perch were detected spawning in the Mid Murray in response to flow variability; improve riparian and wetland vegetation condition; and contribute to the managed export of salt from the River Murray system.