Sentences with phrase «used for vegetation»

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However, after the flood, the quality of the vegetation degraded, and G - d allowed Noah to use animals for food, with these and other restrictions.

Their agricultural practices, learned over the centuries, conserved the soil and its vegetation for continued pastoral use.

It makes me feel that the term «vegan» is extremely unfortunate and misleading, because the term does not emphasize or even signify respect for animals or living beings or creatures, as it would benefit from doing, but rather uses a derivative form of «vegetable» or «vegetarian», which makes it sound as if the central point is — eating vegetation, i.e. plants, which makes it sound like a diet.

The use of environmental water will help to contribute towards improving native vegetation condition, reducing the local impacts of salinity and supporting waterbirds and frogs that rely on the region's wetlands for reproduction and survival.

There are various products that can be used to make vegetation unpalatable to woodchucks, but not all are meant to be used on food grown for human consumption.

For now, the increases in CO2 soaked up by new vegetation — including trees now growing where shrubs used to dominate — more than compensate for the amounts of the gas released by thawing permafrost, the team saFor now, the increases in CO2 soaked up by new vegetation — including trees now growing where shrubs used to dominate — more than compensate for the amounts of the gas released by thawing permafrost, the team safor the amounts of the gas released by thawing permafrost, the team says.

«We will evaluate these responses for the first time at a regional scale using remotely sensed indicators of vegetation condition and fire - induced tree mortality to measure the response of floodplain forests to inter-annual flood variability and extreme climate events,» said Marcia Macedo, a research associate at the Woods Hole Research Center.

Pinyon jay: flight to nowhere Johnson and his team used climate models to study the relationship between each target species and the vegetation it uses for food resources, which is affected by shifts in temperature and precipitation.

Using NASA rain and vegetation data, researchers can track when and where arid lands begin to green, and for the first time anticipate if zebras will make the trek or, if the animals find poor conditions en route, understand why they will turn back.

The strategy — widely anticipated but issued 5 months later than the White House had originally planned — also outlines a series of steps and goals for agencies to pursue, such as tackling bee - killing pathogens and mites, reducing pesticide use and reviewing its safety to bees, restoring degraded pollinator habitats, and encouraging the planting of more flowering plants and other pollinator - friendly vegetation.

Isotope analyses focused on 15N, which reflects dietary animal protein and 34S, which showed an increased amount of railway vegetation for rail - using bears in a previous study.

It's easy to imagine where mammoths would have stood on the gentle slope, using their tusks to clear the snow while browsing for vegetation.

Vegetation data has many applications, from weather and ecological forecasting, to understanding best practices for land use.

The challenges for the next year are to give the robot the autonomy to safely drive between the vineyard lines using stereoscopic vision, integrating a side camera which will provide information about the vegetation status of the plants and possible bunches; and also the coupling of the sensors on the robot.

We have been measuring vegetation for 20 years, so we can also use that to say, «Wow, we are losing grasses,» for instance — which we are — and say, «Okay, parks, you know, you are losing grasses, and you're losing grasses in areas that have never been grazed and are not visited by people, and you're losing that lichen, Collema, in an area that has never been grazed and has never been visited by people.

«Since many semi-arid regions with banded vegetation are used for grazing and / or timber, this prediction has significant implications for land management,» Sherratt says.

«Most climate models that incorporate vegetation are built on short - term observations, for example of photosynthesis, but they are used to predict long - term events,» said Bond - Lamberty, who works at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. «We need to understand forests in the long term, but forests change slowly and researchers don't live that long.»

Using UAVs in these areas has allowed for improved studies on land - atmosphere exchanges and vegetation - runoff interactions.

While mature trees can use their roots to tap water deeper in the soil, competition with dense understory vegetation can make it difficult for seedlings to survive.

«Visible or near - infrared bands typically used for crop monitoring are mainly sensitive to the upper canopy, but provide little information about deeper vegetation and soil conditions affecting crop water status and yield,» says John Kimball from University of Montana, a long - term collaborator with Guan and a coauthor of the paper.

For the study, Gentine and Lemordant took Earth system models with decoupled surface (vegetation physiology) and atmospheric (radiative) CO2 responses and used a multi-model statistical analysis from CMIP5, the most current set of coordinated climate model experiments set up as an international cooperation project for the International Panel on Climate ChanFor the study, Gentine and Lemordant took Earth system models with decoupled surface (vegetation physiology) and atmospheric (radiative) CO2 responses and used a multi-model statistical analysis from CMIP5, the most current set of coordinated climate model experiments set up as an international cooperation project for the International Panel on Climate Chanfor the International Panel on Climate Change.

Even though the historical milking grounds have not been in active use for about 100 years, they are still easily recognized in as distinct, oval - shaped meadows amidst a mostly shrubby tundra vegetation.

«The Illinois State Museum is deeply respected in the scientific community for the expertise of its curators and for its irreplaceable collection of archaeological, cultural, and paleontological artifacts,» says paleoecologist Jack Williams of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has used the Neotoma database to explore vegetation change over the past 20,000 years on a continental and global scale.

The heights of the rectangular bars denote best estimate values guided by published values of the climate change agents and conversion to radiative perturbations using simplified expressions for the greenhouse gas concentrations and model calculations for the ice sheets, vegetation and mineral dust.

«Even though in this country we've outlawed it, we used it for so long that it's leached into our soil and really becomes part of our vegetation,» Milanaik said.

High - demand for a crop throughout the year puts stress on conventional farmers to use more land and thus reconstruct more of its natural vegetation for agricultural use.

Earth's Climate and Vegetation is a colorful, detailed 93 - slide PowerPoint presentation suitable for use in a typical middle school World Geography Today program.

Ever since insects developed a taste for vegetation, plants have faced the same dilemma: use limited resources to out - compete their neighbors for light to grow, or, invest directly in defense against hungry insects.

Once established, these plants will provide many services to wildlife: songbirds use its long leaves and large blooms for nesting material, large water birds eat the tender shoots and roots, snakes and amphibians find cover in the dense vegetation, and foxes slink through unseen to their watering holes.

Completely vegetarian; prehensile snout used for harvesting vegetation.

Cafe Rico also serves some of the best breakfasts around and offers a mighty fine lunch selection, too - all served in a shady, open - air space surrounded by lush vegetation (look for sloths and exotic birds in the trees) and the best used book selection.

Your guide will show and tell you about the different plants, herbs and vegetation used for medicines and cooking.

Learning of the many ingenious ways in which the Mayans used the vegetation of the rainforest for medical and healing treatments.

Allowing the option for more strategic uses of the environment, the terrain, the vegetation and even the wildlife is fair game for those who wish to become the ultimate hunter.

Cry Engine 3 can make things look pretty, but what use does a mobile games developer have for an integrated vegetation and terrain cover generation system?

It uses the floor for a shifting view of the ground, from rocks to mud to vegetation.

The materials used were often the materials of the Earth including for instance the soil and rocks and vegetation and water found on - site, and the siting of the works were often distant from population centers.

The NWS has uses software for analysis of inconsistencies in data due to changes in station locations, vegetation and other characteristics that influence temperature and precipitation readings.

Cruz creditably withstood the perennial temptation — among Republicans and Democrats alike — to bow down to Big Corn and the federal mandate for ethanol that has been such a boon to Iowa corn farmers and bane if you care about food prices, greenhouse gas emissions, herbicide use or the loss of wild vegetation in the Midwest that is an important food source for monarchs and habitat for other wildlife.

[Response: Some dynamic vegetation models do take the diffuse / direct light ratios into account, but these aren't in widespread use for long millennial runs.

The taller and denser vegetation uses up more carbon from the atmosphere, changes the amount and composition of forage for grazing animals, and also alters the partitioning and distribution of energy and heat at the land surface.

The researchers compared GOSAT short - wave infrared Fourier transform spectrometer data collected between 2009 and 2013 with water level data from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment observations to approximate drought and used satellite measurements of solar - induced chlorophyll fluorescence as a proxy for vegetation levels.

And compare that to the CO2 levels for the same days at Mauna Loa (or you can take data from anyware, away from local sources): Note: while we used the same scale as for Diekirch, the MLO data are the raw hourly CO2 levels, without pre - or postprocessing, thus including local influences of upwind conditions (depleted by vegetation at about -2 ppmv).

Using pollen, phytolith, and charcoal records to identify the distribution and composition of tropical vegetation and fire patterns over the past 11,000 years, Dolores R. Piperno of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, found evidence of widespread fire use for land - clearing by pre-Colombian populations in Latin America.

In addition, vegetation better used for grazing instead fuels the fires of the charcoal kilns.

But researchers report in Science journal that, using satellite imagery and field measurements, they analysed the carbon density of living, woody vegetation across tropical Africa, America and Asia for the decade between 2003 and 2014.

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).

More exact for the partitioning between oceans and vegetation are found in the oxygen balance, but with large margins of error, as oxygen change measurements (a few ppmv in 200,000 ppmv) are extremely difficult, at the edge of the accuracy of the methods used.

Houghton's method of reconstructing Land - Use Based Net Flux of Carbon appears arbitrary and susceptible to bias; i.e. «Rates of land - use change, including clearing for agriculture and harvest of wood, were reconstructed from statistical and historic documents for 9 world regions and used, along with the per ha [hectare] changes in vegetation and soil that result from land management, to calculate the annual flux of carbon between land and atmosphere.&raqUse Based Net Flux of Carbon appears arbitrary and susceptible to bias; i.e. «Rates of land - use change, including clearing for agriculture and harvest of wood, were reconstructed from statistical and historic documents for 9 world regions and used, along with the per ha [hectare] changes in vegetation and soil that result from land management, to calculate the annual flux of carbon between land and atmosphere.&raquse change, including clearing for agriculture and harvest of wood, were reconstructed from statistical and historic documents for 9 world regions and used, along with the per ha [hectare] changes in vegetation and soil that result from land management, to calculate the annual flux of carbon between land and atmosphere.»

They are also recommended for use in modeling with other environmental datasets representing geology, vegetation, elevation and climate.