Sentences with phrase «tree encroachment»

But a new study shows that warming temperatures and resulting tree encroachment could doom these landscapes, except at very high elevations.8 months ago

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City planning should make ample provision for parks and trees, and federal and state parks and forests should be steadfastly maintained against all encroachments by commercial and utilitarian interests.

On the far side, another wadi leads down to a series of oases that is dying from the gradual encroachment of Bayoud disease, which afflicts palm trees.

However, without definitive tests of the CO2 - fertilisation effect on savanna trees, other factors can be invoked to explain widely observed woody plant encroachment in grassland systems (Van Auken, 2000).

That would make it nearly impossible to isolate micro-site biases based on instrument type, i.e. tree and building encroachment reducing surface wind velocity at the station.

For centuries, human activities such as hunting and encroachment have made life difficult for the largest species, from mammals and fish to insects and trees, leading to an evolutionary trend towards the miniature.

In Solloway v Hampshire County Council (1981) 79 LGR 449, 258 Estates Gazette 858 Lord Justice Dunn said that, in Leakey v National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty [1980] QB 485, [1980] 1 All ER 17, Lord Justice Megaw had placed nuisance by tree roots and branches into the same category as any other nuisance not brought about by human agency, and had imported into tree root cases, as conditions of liability, the requirement of knowledge of the encroachment and the requirement of a reasonably foreseeable risk that the encroachment would cause damage.

I've seen firsthand what has happened when these properties are finally surveyed, and we find there are encroachments from tree plantings, fences, or garages of neighboring properties.