Sentences with phrase «of vegetation structure»

Climate is a major factor in controlling global patterns of vegetation structure and productivity, as well as plant and animal species composition.

Assessing ecoclimate teleconnections requires explicit consideration of vegetation - climate feedbacks through five steps -LRB-[14]; Fig 1A): «(1) How does the land surface change in terms of vegetation structure?

«This provides us with a comprehensive three - dimensional digital model of the landscape, which enables a precise analysis of the vegetation structure,» says Jussi Baade, associate professor of Physical Geography at the University of Jena.

Not exact matches

Many interacting factors influence whether and how wildfires will spread, including fire intensity, wind intensity, the quantity of firebrands that land on structures, the heat that impacts structures, how structures ignite, the distance between structures and vegetation, and the distance between structures.

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.»

Now, technology that allows for digital deforestation has uncovered thousands of new Maya structures previously undetected beneath smothering vegetation.

We now have a basic understanding of the climate and the vegetation structure and know about the role of bats and hummingbirds as pollinators.

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.

The technique has transformed archaeology, giving scientists the ability to peer through dense vegetation and see long - hidden temples, boulevards, dikes and cityscapes — angular human - made structures that pop out of otherwise natural landscapes.

By studying the microscopic structure of the eggs, Dr. Varricchio and I were able to determine that the animal buried its eggs in a vegetation mound or nested in a humid environment - more like some reptiles than most open - nesting modern birds.

Much of the area remains covered by thick jungle vegetation, not only hiding further Mayan structures but also home to wildlife like armadillos, tapirs, crocodiles, and many more, making it a great spot to catch a glimpse of Belize's incredible biodiversity.

Magical mountain scenery, Early Stone Age artefacts, cultural - historic structures and ruins, interesting geological formations, wildlife, bird life, lichens, marine trace fossils, three Matjiesfontein Fynbos vegetation types and clear night skies create a unique sense of place and ensure that there is something to interest all nature lovers.

They were situated deep in the jungle and we had to trek quite a ways on paths through the dense tropical vegetation in order to get from one structure or group of ruins to the next.

I also loved the rugged, natural and wild feel of these ruins, as the ruins site was less - manicured than sites like Chichen Itza and Tulum and it contained lots of unexcavated structures overgrown with vegetation and hidden among the surrounding jungle.

As the vegetation changes you will notice the structure of homes changes as well as the ethnicity of the people.

I thoroughly enjoyed the peaceful and quiet atmosphere at the ruins while exploring the structures as well as the natural and rugged jungle surroundings, with lots of unexcavated structures lost in the jungle and vegetation growing on and around many of the restored ruins.

Only a small portion of Coba has been excavated and many of the structures remain hidden in the jungle, overgrown with jungle vegetation, while the ruins that have been partially excavated continue to have trees and plants growing through cracks in the rocks.

Influenced by the tropical climate and vegetation of her home country as well as by the urban vibe of cities like Rio de Janeiro, Milhazes combines traditional imagery and cultural clichés with plain geometric forms and accurate structured composition, creating dynamical and unexpected works.

Trampling of vegetation and soil and whatever else can severely disrupt the soil structure and in the event of heavy rainfall events this soil is easily moved somewhere else.

«Eventually, abandoned structures become completely swallowed up by vegetation and the earth itself, leaving few traces of our human footprint.

The US population has been increasing over the measurement period and with it the number of roads, buildings and other human structures that do not transpire like natural vegetation.

The coastal structure of Kosrae, Mr. Ramsey explained, is a result of sand and broken coral on the reef flat, which builds up and eventually begins accumulating soil and vegetation.

The thermometer network is made up of a patchwork of non-research quality instruments that were never made to monitor long - term temperature changes to tenths or hundredths of a degree... Furthermore, land - based thermometers are placed where people live, and people build stuff, often replacing cooling vegetation with manmade structures that cause an artificial warming (urban heat island, UHI) effect right around the thermometer.

These include changing the substrate, changing vegetation, covering the substrate, creating artificial bodies of water and building structures.

These stem from a diversity of site - specific conditions, including, but not limited to: local vegetation; presence of building structures and contributions made by such structures involving energy use, heating and air conditioning, etc; exposure to winds, the wind velocities determined by climatic factors and also whether certain wind directions are more favored than others by terrain or the presence or absence thereof to bodies of water; proximity to grass, asphalt, concrete or other material surfaces; the physical conditions of the CRS itself which include: the exact location of the temperature sensors within it, the degree of unimpeded flow of external air through the CRS, the character of the paint used; the exact height of the instrument above the external surface (noting that when the ground is covered by 3 feet of snow, the temperature instrument is about 60 % closer to, or less than 2 feet, above an excellent radiating surface, much closer than it would be under snow - free conditions).

Such approaches generate projections of future vegetation structure, e.g., as the likely balance of plant functional types (PFTs) after permitting competitive interaction and accounting for wildfire (Woodward and Lomas, 2004b; Lucht et al., 2006; Prentice et al., 2007; but see Betts and Shugart, 2005, for a more complete discussion).

Regarding the other half of the warming, what fraction of that is due to regional to super regional scale surface / near surface waste heat, albedo / vegetation modification, and, disturbances to boundary layer laminar flows by human made structures and tree plantings?

Consequently, accurate prediction of soil moisture is crucial for simulation of the hydrological cycle, of soil and vegetation biochemistry, including the cycling of carbon and nutrients, and of ecosystem structure and distribution as well as climate.

Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models.

Widespread agricultural land use by mid-Holocene is further evidenced by altered fire regimes that may have transformed vegetation structure and species composition across many regions, with woodland ecosystems from the Mediterranean to the Tropics increasingly recognized as the bio-cultural legacies of long histories of prior human use (50, 74, 78 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 84).

The repeated fires modify ecosystem structure, penetrate ever deeper into forest margins, affect large areas of understory vegetation (which is not detected by remote sensing), and take an ever greater cumulative toil on soil quality and its ability to sequester carbon.

Green roofs can be modular systems (typically arrays of trays containing all the vegetation and necessary drainage structures), or they may be permanent designs grown directly on the rooftop.

Evaluating the structure, color, and semantic traits of computer vision point clouds of vegetation.

Less of a Minecraft ripoff and more of a creation suite similar to the Toy Box mode in the now - defunct Disney Infinity series, you can add practically any gameplay element you like from structures and vegetation to enemies, gameplay modifiers and post FX.

vegetation, surface drainage, retaining walls and grading of the property, where they may adversely affect the structure due to moisture intrusion.