Sentences with phrase «vegetation cover resulting»

Malaysia's forest loss was partly offset by a 25,978 sq km gain in vegetation cover resulting from natural recovery, reforestation, and establishment of industrial timber and oil palm plantations.

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City rooftops covered with vegetation are seen as a way to reduce the urban heat - island effect and cut energy usage — but so far, the results have been unimpressive

«The results showed that, during moisture deficit periods, green turf cover (GTC), normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), and leaf relative water content (RWC) were most affected by substrate depth, moderately affected by irrigation regime, and, to a lesser extent, by substrate type,» the authors said.

The result was less disturbance and a substantial increase in vegetation cover, which promoted the development of ant colonies.»

In just a few years, wanton and deliberate destruction of the escarpment environment through charcoal burning, logging for timber and fuel wood, ring - debarking of medicinal trees and overgrazing has resulted to virtual depletion of forest vegetation cover.

These moist enthalpy - related studies confirm previous results showing that changes in vegetation cover, surface moisture and energy fluxes generally lead to significant climatic changes (e.g. 41 - 43) and responses which can be of a similar magnitude to that projected for future greenhouse gas concentrations (44, 45).

Results from Fall et al. (12) indicate that TE (i) is larger than T in 8 areas with higher physical evaporation and transpiration rates (e.g. deciduous broadleaf forests and croplands) and (ii) shows a stronger relationship than T to vegetation cover, especially during the growing season (biomass increase).