Sentences with phrase «square kilometer region»

In addition to providing the first comprehensive assessment of songbird occupancy over a 40,000 square kilometer region of northern California, they were able to identify the precise dates of peak vocal activity for eight songbird species, and their work shows that this will be a feasible method to track advances in the timing of vocal activity over the coming decades.

Not exact matches

The mining activity was proposed for a 65 square kilometre region between 22 and 36 kilometers offshore.

Using echosounders installed on the hull of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Nancy Foster, the science team mapped canyons and shelf regions at high resolution over more than 380 square miles (1,000 square kilometers) of seafloor from south of Cape Hatteras to Baltimore Canyon, which runs from offshore North Carolina to the eastern tip of Long Island.

Taken together, Ceres» permanently shadowed regions occupy about 695 square miles (1,800 square kilometers).

Lightning is blamed for setting off the fires, including a massive blaze that has destroyed around 42 square miles (110 square kilometers) of forestland, along with 16 homes, and has threatened the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, America's oldest Buddhist monastery in the Big Sur region of California.

The IUCN, using data from British - based environmental group Earthsight, found that palm oil already covers 1,000 square kilometers of Central Africa and that 1 million square kilometers in the region are suitable for the crop.

Between March 2008 and September 2009, the researchers caught nine pumas living in a 1100 - square - kilometer region in southern Chile and strapped GPS - equipped radio collars on them.

The team found that the five - week eruption supplied enough dissolved iron to increase the number of phytoplankton cells within a region of the North Atlantic stretching across 570,000 square kilometers — or 220,000 square miles, about the size of France.

In 2002, the Gulf's dead zone swelled to its largest size ever: 22,000 square kilometers, or a region spanning an area about the size of Massachusetts.

In this almost 34,000 square - kilometer (13,000 square - mile) region of radio silence, there is no cell - phone service and almost no radio stations.

But snow leopard habitat is so large, hundreds of square kilometers in fact, that Volodya needs help to survey the region so I joined the team to do this with him this year.

The city of Burnaby real estate goes along 98.60 square kilometers, or 38.07 miles, and sits in the physical centre of the Vancouver metropolitan region.

Inside the 140,000 square kilometer marine reserve that surrounds these islands, species such as sea lions and penguins, normally indigenous to cooler regions, live side - by - side with a host of sharks, reef fish and sea turtles commonly found in more tropical climates.

Howat and his colleagues concentrated on the southeastern region of Greenland, an area covering about one - fifth of the island's 656,373 square miles (1.7 million square kilometers).

Our analysis [13] estimates the average cost of protecting and monitoring tigers effectively at all 42 source sites at $ 82 million per year or $ 930 / km2 per year, within the range of effective protected area costs in general (from $ 130 to > $ 5,000 / square kilometer / year for densely settled regions in Asia)[26].

The 740,100 - square - mile (1.9 - million - square - kilometer) Cerrado region is South America's largest savanna — one of the richest in the world, in terms of bird, reptile, fish, and insect species.

The team of oceanographers, whale biologists and avian ecologists are participating in the annual Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (PAL LTER) research cruise, which surveys a 180,000 - square - kilometer region of the Southern Ocean along the West Antarctic Peninsula each year.

The region under NASA's microscope spans 2.5 million square miles (6.4 million square kilometers).

The total area covered by thick older ice that survives one or more summers («multi-year ice») shrank 42 percent or 1.54 million square kilometers (595,000 square miles), leaving thinner first - year ice («seasonal ice») as the dominant type of ice in the region.

One region where scientists have consistently failed to accurately predict monsoon behavior in the 21st century is over the sprawling, 860,000 - square - kilometer Ganga river basin in central India.

We need to bring deforestation to a halt as rapidly as possible and foster the regeneration of forest on that portion of the region's 600 thousand plus square kilometers of cleared land that is unproductive — more 100 thousand square miles.

Looking at charcoal fragments from 14 deep lakes in the region, scientists were able to reconstruct the fire history of this particular forest, which covers around 2,000 square kilometers.

In fact, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in donor funds that have flowed into the region since 2000 and the establishment of more than 100 million hectares of protected areas since 2002, average annual deforestation rates have increased since the 1990s, peaking at 73,785 square kilometers (28,488 square miles) of forest loss between 2002 and 2004.

The total amount of sea ice in the polar regions during that time of the year is about 17 million square kilometers.

The West Siberian Plain — the world's largest — extends east from the Urals to the Yenisey River.8 Stretching from the Arctic Ocean to the foothills of the Altay Mountains in southern Russia, the plain encompasses more than 618 million acres (2.5 million square kilometers).8, 9 The region contains all the major vegetation zones except for tropical forests, including some of the world's largest swamps and floodplains and vast boreal forests.8, 9

Vegetation change in Colombia's moist forest biome Colombia gained nearly 17,000 square kilometers of forest between 2001 and 2010 as forests recovered in mountainous regions in the Andes, reports a...

To date no attempt has been made to clean up the oil which gushed from two separate ruptures of the Bodo - Bonny trans - Niger pipeline into a 20 square kilometer network of creeks in Ogoniland region of Nigeria.

For shallow - shelving reservoirs these «drawdown» regions can account for several thousand square kilometers.

A +12 C (+22 F) anomaly over a region roughly 1000 - 1500 km per side (a million square kilometers)-- that's rather impressive, but not atypical for heat wave intensity — California heat waves can hit similar peaks — but the persistence is a major issue.

In contrast to the polar regions, the network of lower latitude small glaciers and ice caps, although making up only about four percent of the total land ice area or about 760,000 square kilometers, may have provided as much as 60 percent of the total glacier contribution to sea level change since 1990s (Meier et al. 2007).