Sentences with phrase «vegetated areas»

Graphs show a) Global average wildfire season length (expressed as a standardised anomaly), and b) Total global average area experiencing «long» wildfire seasons (as a % of global vegetated area)-- both from 1979 to 2013.

The path may be through vegetated areas such as grassy fields or over non-vegetated areas.

Between 1982 and 2011, 20.5 % of the world's vegetated area got greener, while just 3 % grew browner; the rest showed no change.

By examining an old crevasse along Bayou Lafourche, a precursor of the Mississippi River, the researchers found that mud can build enough land to keep up with sea level rise if the diversion flows into existing vegetated areas protected from marine forces.

Since sediment carried by Bayou Lafourche 1,200 to 600 years ago only contained about 20 percent sand, but an abundance of mud, the researchers suggest that land building can be maximized by gearing muddy diversions toward vegetated areas rather than to capture sandy deposits along the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

While most of the region endured dry, freezing weather, pockets of «refugia,» or vegetated areas not affected by climate change, remained scattered along the Bering land bridge throughout the LGM period.

In urban, sparsely vegetated areas, such as much of São Paulo, heat emitted by buildings, cars, and pavement creates heat islands where temperatures are higher, clouds are deeper, and lightning is more likely, the researchers say.

This study assumes that mosquitoes stay on the block where they're born — in the safety of the cool, moist, vegetated area where they hatched.

At least half of current vegetated areas are predicted to shift to a different type of vegetation class, with a general trend of now - present grasses and small shrubs yielding to larger shrubs and trees as the climate warms, the scientists said.

To avoid any harmful smoke release, stay away from heavy populated cities and spend more time in the countryside, mountains and natural vegetated areas.

Our hotel complex is located close to the well known national park Manuel Antonio about min drive and downtown Quepos min walk surrounded by quiet a densly vegetated area - The perfect location Our installations...

All beach camping sites are set back just behind the dunes, it is not permitted to drive over the dunes or through vegetated areas if there is no existing track, use only established access to campsites.

It's interesting that wetter, more vegetated areas are implicitly louder than dry regions.

They then worked out how the season length had changed between 1979 and 2013 for vegetated areas across the world.

15 Using an infrared thermometer, I have observed the dawn temperatures within vegetated areas are 10 to 20 °F cooler than surfaces just 20 feet away on paved and gravel country roads, instrumentally confirming that cooler tree ring temperatures are more accurately measuring natural climate change.

Barriers between the traffic and the garden, such as thickly vegetated areas or buildings, reduced the levels of cadmium, chromium, lead, and zinc found in the vegetables.

They estimate that, across about 60 % of the global vegetated area, greening has buffered warming by about 14 %; for the remaining areas, which mostly include boreal zones, LAI trends have amplified the raise in air temperatures, leading to an additional warming of about 10 %.

The results confirm that the Earth is greening: «Between 1982 and 2011, 20.5 % of the world's vegetated area got greener, while just 3 % grew browner; the rest showed no change.»

Finally they reached the vegetated area and saw one, and then two, enormous shining, black - looking bodies spread out on the bush.

In addition, only one to two per cent of the world's vegetated area, however, is classified as refugia and protected by a national park or other protected area.

The frequency of long fire weather seasons increased across 53.4 % of the global vegetated area (62.4 M km2) as observed between 1996 and 2013, compared with 1979 — 1996, with decreased frequency only observed across 34.6 % (40.4 M km2)(Fig. 3b).

Globally, fire weather season length increased by 18.7 % from 1979 to 2013 (Fig. 2a), with statistically significant increases observed across 25.3 % (29.6 M km2) of the global vegetated area and decreases in only 10.7 % (12.5 M km2)(Fig. 3a).

Since 1979, there have been 6 years, all in the last decade, where > 20 % of the global vegetated area has been affected by long fire weather seasons (2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013).

Prevention of this infection can be done by managing the outdoor environment of the dog and by not allowing him to spend time in soil - rich, decayed, vegetated areas.

Their results show that the fire season has lengthened by an average of 19 % for a quarter of the global vegetated area.

A global satellite study published in the April 2016 edition of the journal Nature reported «a persistent and widespread increase» of CO2 fertilized greening over 25 % to 50 % of the «global vegetated area» over the past 35 years.

Scientific studies had, for instance, revealed an «overall expansion of desert and contraction of vegetated areas» on that continent.

Satellite surveillance has shown that a significant portion (between a quarter and half) of the world's vegetated areas are becoming notably greener.