Sentences with phrase «upland forests»

The yearly run - off river floods actually deposit enriched silt from the upland forests on the delta which facilitates some of the best food - growing regions in the world.
The vast majority of upland forests and woodlands are dominated by conifers, all but one of which are evergreen.
The vast majority of wood used by Enviva's production plants in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina comes from upland forests and mixed stands.
The South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (South Slough NERR) is a 5,000 acre natural area located in the Coos estuary on the south coast of Oregon.The South Slough contains upland forests, freshwater wetlands and ponds, salt marshes, mud...
An international team has described a new great ape species, the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis), found in upland forests in the Batang Toru Ecosystem of North Sumatra, Indonesia.
Previous research has focused on Amazon upland forests and the potential impacts of deforestation, fire, and drought.
«Farm fields, upland forests, streams, ponds, and marshes — this land has everything.
Large contribution of boreal upland forest soils to a catchment - scale CH4 balance in a wet year.
KOKE`E STATE PARK, located at the very top of the island, is defined by its sprawling 4,345 - acre upland forest, intersected by 45 miles of HIKING TRAILS and popularized by its SCENIC CLIFFSIDE VISTAS.
Large contribution of boreal upland forest soils to a catchment - scale CH4 balance in a wet year.
Under current plans, this RED initiative will be implemented in a defined geographic area, essentially a newly established, 7500 km2 protected area (PA) comprising mostly upland forest, where guards will be recruited to enforce forest protection.
The team predicts that the current plan would save 1313 sq km of upland forest by 2030, but 7913 sq km of forest (around 22 % of 2006 forest cover) would be lost across landscapes outside protected areas.
And a new study by US scientists shows that tree trunks in at least one sample of an upland forest actually emit methane into the atmosphere.
But this new finding in an upland forest in Union, Conn. was unexpected and in fact was found by accident.
The study, published in the journal Ecosystems, showed that methane emissions from tree trunks could upset the positive effect caused by the ability of upland forest soils to take up and store methane.
For the study, the researchers measured the carbon dioxide and methane fluxes of the soil and tree trunks» coarse woody debris (CWD) in a 30 - acre area of upland forest at Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area.
A section of the landscape is protected in Bukit Tigapuluh National Park, but most of this consists of upland forest, which while threatened, is less endangered than lowland forest.

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The property, known as the Tucker parcel, is a matrix of agricultural fields, mixed - hardwood forest uplands, forested wetlands, and open / shrub wetlands.
«The lower capacity of floodplain forests to recover suggests that these areas can be trapped by recurrent fires in an open vegetation state more easily than the uplands,» says Milena Holmgren of Wageningen University & Research and a coauthor of the study.
Inmates have therefore built 12 miles of fence to enclose about 4,000 acres of upland koa - «ohi`a forest, and state and federal workers have shot and removed most of the feral pigs inside the fences.
Half of Alberta's upland boreal forest is likely to disappear over the next century due to climate change, a new study shows.
Upland soil carbon sink accounts for approximately 20 % of the forest carbon sinks.
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The bustling market town of Clitheroe lies in between the Forest of Bowland AONB's main upland block and the outlier of Pendle Hill.
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A good Golden Retriever is also a dog that can efficiently hunt on land, in fields and in forest, in search of picking up any bird or upland game, be it a pheasant, a grouse or even a hare.
The Bemaraha nature reserve comprises karstic landscapes and deeply cut limestone uplands — with its impressive tsingy or «forest» of limestone needles — , the spectacular canyon of the Manambolo River, as well as rolling hills and high peaks.
Our newest, this hand - crafted studio cottage has a cal - king bed, sitting area, full kitchen, private bathroom, surrounded by the upland rain forest, with a covered walkway up to the large covered entry porch, on the back side of the cottage.
Reestablishment would include 12 acres of Bottomland Hardwood Forest, three acres of Riparian Forest, two acres of Upland Hardwood Forest and 2.2 acres of Coastal Prairie.
Our satellite - based spatially explicit deforestation model predicts that 1313 km2 of forest would be saved from deforestation by 2030, while forest cover present in 2006 would shrink by 22 % (7913 km2) across landscapes outside PAs if RED were only to be implemented in the upland PA..
The REDD project, financed by Bank of America and co-managed by carbon trading firm Carbon Conservation and non-governmental organisation Flora and Fauna International, covers 7500 sq km of forest, mostly in the uplands.
Persistent drought conditions have also adversely impacted water - dependent habitats and species within and downstream of forest uplands, as evidenced by heightened mortality of a riparian tree species in central Arizona [5] and declines in number of species and densities of native fish in the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico [6], [7].
This has been a hallmark of American Bird Conservancy since 1998, when we helped Mexican partner Bosque Antiguo establish the 1,000 - acre El Carricito reserve to protect Thick - billed Parrots and Military Macaws in upland pine - oak forests of western Mexico.
Montane - The biogeographic zone made up of relatively moist, cool upland slopes below the sub-alpine zone that is characterized by the presence of mixed deciduous at lower and coniferous evergreen forests at higher elevations.
Dinosaurs were ground - nesters and could utilize either «upland's», deserts and forests or fluvial, lacustrine or onshore swampy environments for nests.
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