Sentences with phrase «vegetation in»

Goats will soon be munching their way through spring lawns, as property owners trade machinery and labor crews for hungry, four - legged landscapers ready to decimate any vegetation in their way.

Mary Bowen, owner of Sunderland, Md. - based Green Goats and Prosperity Acres farm, will be putting her herd of over 70 goats to work from May to October, using them to clear overgrown vegetation in various private and public areas.

It also includes water usage, how the home itself makes use of rain water, the kinds of vegetation in and around the property, the construction materials and methods used on the property, alternative sustainable energy resources and more.

The Commission notes that there is currently uncertainty about the commercial harvesting of vegetation in a high preservation area (such as river reeds at Aurukun) for the use in traditional art and craft or to produce goods for sale.

1986 Thompson Webb, III, «Is Vegetation in Equilibrium with Climate?

«It shows the climate impact on vegetation in the high latitudes,» said researcher Jeffrey Masek, who is also NASA's Landsat 9 project scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center.

A new study has confirmed that the vegetation in the Arctic is turning green due to global warming and human activities.

Landsat, a project also backed by the US Geological Survey (USGS), provides the longest space - based record of land vegetation in existence.

The new study, coupled with NASA's previous findings, confirms that Arctic greening is indeed an alarming trend and global warming has been greatly affecting the vegetation in high latitude areas.

We also have maintained the vegetation in order to not lose the current shaded and cool ambience as well as a sensible design of the exterior elements - wooden stairs following the natural slope and a minimal perimeter fence.»

Researchers at the University of Exeter are turning to drones to uncover the secrets of how those people affected modern vegetation in the rainforest.

«Reburn severity in managed and unmanaged vegetation in a large wildfire,» Jonathan R. Thompson, Thomas A. Spies, and Lisa M. Ganio, PNAS June 19, 2007.

Use soil and vegetation in a constructed technique, such as rain gardens or green roofs, to mimic natural hydrologic processes like percolation through soil and plant uptake and transpiration.

A new study finds that the world's hottest desert, the Sahara, is getting bigger because of climate change, advancing south and drying out vegetation in what is has been tropical terrain.

Rainfall change and variability is very likely to affect vegetation in tropical grassland and savanna systems with, for example, a reduction in cover and productivity simulated along an aridity gradient in southern African savanna in response to the observed drying trend of about 8 mm / yr since 1970 (Woodward and Lomas, 2004a).

Antarctic vegetation in the MMCO implies a summer temperature of approximately 11 °C warmer than today [24] and annual sea surface temperatures ranging from 0 °C to 11.5 °C [25].

To avoid long response times in extreme climates, today's ice sheets are assigned surface properties of the tundra, thus allowing them to have a high albedo snow cover in cold climates but darker vegetation in warm climates.

Interactions between carbon and nitrogen dynamics in estimating net primary productivity for potential vegetation in North America.

Collapse of vegetation in the Sahara ≈ 5,000 years ago occurred more rapidly than orbital forcing (71, 72).

While NASA says sea ice probably won't set any records this year, we have this horrible news: Sea ice decline spurs the greening of the Arctic Sea ice decline and warming trends are changing the vegetation in nearby arctic coastal areas, according to two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists.

The role and importance of vegetation in the city, especially treed areas, needs much more attention.

The latest article on greening I've seen is from a couple of months ago: «Human population growth offsets climate - driven increase in woody vegetation in sub-Saharan Africa» https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0081 Thanks to climate change and CO2 increase the balance is positive towards greening over human deforestation.

Some of what's left can be stored in soils, as vegetation in restored woodlands or in reclaimed deserts — making inroads into emissions from land use and forestry.

Bowman said that vegetation in parts of Victoria, which normally completely regenerates over a 50 - year cycle, is now being burned as often as three times in the period of one decade.

Seasonal exchanges are huge: about 20 % of all CO2 in the atmosphere is exchanged between atmosphere and other reservoirs over the seasons, but as the exchanges with oceans and vegetation are countercurrent with temperature (vegetation in the NH dominates), the net result is only some 2 % change in the atmosphere over the seasons which is visible in the Mauna Loa curve.

However, this does not compensate for decreases of vegetation in Southern Latitudes.

(violation) The DEIR reported traffic and vegetation in their noise study, this is because the placement of the sound receivers need to be at ear level and not ground level.

As Carbon Dioxide increases, vegetation in Northern Latitudes also increases.

Positive effects of climate change may include greener rainforests and enhanced plant growth in the Amazon, increased vegetation in northern latitudes and possible increases in plankton biomass in some parts of the ocean.

What the image shows: Clouds swirl over sea ice, glaciers, and green vegetation in the Northern Hemisphere, as seen on a spring day from an angle of 70 degrees North, 60 degrees East.

Changes in vegetation in northern Alaska under scenarios of climate change, 2003 - 2100: Implications for climate feedbacks

Extensive forest fires in 1936 increased their preferred vegetation and feasting on young vegetation in a regenerating forest, the population rebounded until it peaked, followed by increasing winter starvation.

I always hark on about the CO2 concentration over vegetation in the early hours of the morning being many times higher than ambient CO2 concentration, but there is no appreciable warming effect.

The standard defines a VRA as the modular vegetated system (pre-grown vegetation in the form of modules, blankets or mats, growth media, root barrier, pavers and drainage system) and the roofing system (deck, membrane, vapor barriers, insulation coverboard, etc.).

What keeps soils alive, and productive, is the compost or humus of leaf litter, animal dung, withered roots and other decaying vegetation in the first metre or so of topsoil: this in turn feeds an invisible army of tiny creatures that recycle the nutrient elements for the next generation of plant life.

It was an excellent and thorough paper on the changes in Estonian swamp vegetation in the last 30 years, with many many beautiful graphs, but for me there was just one question — namely there, in the paper, there was absolutely no evidence or even indication that these these changes were the the result of global warming!

«These results show that we need to start thinking about how altering vegetation in one place can affect plants elsewhere, especially in the context of climate change.»

But removing those trees had the biggest influence on growing conditions nationally, by reducing vegetation in the Eastern U.S.

The vegetation in the region is a mixture of evergreen conifers, subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa), Douglas - fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), Englemann spruce (Picea engelmannii), and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa).

Broad - scale changes in vegetation in general, and tree loss in particular, have pronounced effects on climate processes through biogeophysical mechanisms such as albedo, evapotranspiration (ET), and carbon dioxide exchange with the atmosphere [11].

The predominance of localized vegetation in scats suggests little movement among habitat types between feeding sessions.

Planting more specifically suited vegetation in bioswales can allow bioswales to play a greater part in enhancing the town or city's biodiversity and affords them a more diverse and pleasing appearance.

Forest loss in hotspots around the world impacts not only local climate where loss occurs, but also influences climate and vegetation in remote parts of the globe through ecoclimate teleconnections.

The average relative humidity in cities is usually several percent lower than that of adjacent rural areas, primarily because of increased runoff of precipitation and the lack of evapotranspiration from vegetation in urban areas.

One can calculate that from the exchange rate and year by year emissions, but that is not that easy, because what is absorbed by the oceans surface and vegetation in one season comes in part back in another season.

In recent years, climate scientists have been concerned about a so - called «methane time bomb» on land, which would be detonated when warming Arctic temperatures melt permafrost and cause frozen vegetation in peat bogs and other areas to decay, releasing methane and carbon dioxide.

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).

Any kind of detailed description that shows the location of each tree sampled, along with an overview of the vegetation in the area, should allow one to decide if sampling was sufficient numerically and appropriate biologically.

The role of vegetation in climate change is massive — and the above evapotranspiration is a major player with some reports of minus 0.6 C per year?

However, in this period, the vegetation in the region changes — it flourishes.