Sentences with word «vegetation»

Researchers have developed a numerical model that was able to verify the effects on passive cooling of buildings caused by the density variation of vegetation of green roofs.

This caused a rapid increase in vegetation in 2011, which the team thought might have a significant effect on carbon uptake.

The darker green areas along the river are the only lush vegetation in the picture.

Enjoy riding down winding mountain roads surrounded by diverse tropical vegetation of the rainforest.

Putting a value on vegetation on a carbon sequestration years basis would be a good idea.

He has a special valley that is lush with vegetation and animal life.

Under the law, farmers are required to maintain between 20 to 80 percent native vegetation on their land.

For us the key implication of our theory is the major importance of vegetation cover in sustaining regional climates.

The recovery of natural vegetation in abandoned areas depends upon the intensity and length of the agricultural activity and the amount of soil organic matter on the site at the time of abandonment.

For instance, the annual variations in CO2 rise aren't strictly speaking noise, but a signal from vegetation in the northern hemisphere.

The most significant thing is the mandatory reliability requirements and new standards for vegetation management.

The study features maps of the state and shows the climate risk to 30 different vegetation types under different climate scenarios.

There were walls of green vegetation on either side and a blue sky overhead.

Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models.

This species prefers to flower after fire, when there is less competition from other vegetation.

Enhanced plant growth has many obvious benefits, amongst them increased natural vegetation growth in general, and increased agricultural production in particular.

Approximately one - half the island is covered with dense vegetation.

But if spotted, the lack of surrounding vegetation makes for a quick and easy getaway.

Global vegetation cover changes from coarse resolution satellite data.

As a result, the new model found that the increase in carbon uptake by more vegetation will be overshadowed by a much larger amount of carbon released into the atmosphere.

In both images, land areas with a robust vegetation index appear deep green, indicating greater plant growth.

Previous modeling studies have also consistently predicted increased global vegetation carbon under future scenarios of climate and CO2, but with considerable variation in absolute values (2 — 4).

The city's beautifully - landscaped setting embraces mostly tropical vegetation growing above very moist soil.

They camouflage themselves in dense vegetation at the canopy of trees preventing easy discovery.

For example, the guidelines state that reducing energy consumption could be achieved by exploring grants for energy efficiency improvements as well as by placing vegetation around buildings to lower heating and cooling costs.

Those observations include everything from the atmosphere to the oceans to the ice sheets to polar sea ice to land cover including vegetation and snow.

It's provided some 11 % increase in vegetation which has helped to feed a rapidly increasing population, so that's a good aspect isn't it?

As the temporal scale is extended, the development of dynamic vegetation models, which respond to climate and human land use as well as other changes, is a central issue.

Activities will focus on vegetation management, invasive weed removal, and habitat restoration.

These data help land managers better mitigate fire and understand vegetation responses to future global changes.

However, as the wind speed increases, noise from wind passing through vegetation also increases which can mask the noise from wind turbines.

The rich jungle vegetation is still inhabited by monkeys and other wild life roaming wild in nature.

The overall outcome is a summary of the current state of knowledge concerning the impacts on terrestrial vegetation of future policy decisions that aim to influence anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

These images allow scientists to measure changes in vegetation over time.

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

I think I considered it but then decided no because my rhubarb was crazy tart — like if you could make the most sour candy in the world into vegetation that was my rhubarb.

Because different species may leave distinct chemical signatures in the soil that could in turn affect how vegetation grew at the site, it only made sense to test the technology on humans.

What residual impacts are there to forest vegetation growing along roads and the project footprint over time?

Three planes would fly over the domains periodically during the growing season to record changing vegetation patterns.

Previous studies in the field have used a relatively coarse resolution in their computer simulations, without the possibility of incorporating a detailed level of vegetation dynamics.

In addition, they find that accounting for vegetation feedbacks leads to increased warming in summer at higher latitudes and a reduction in summer warming at lower latitudes.

Fire season refers to the time of the year when vegetation and soils dry and fires can start and spread.