Sentences with phrase «with its vegetation of»

Here the Inka Trail changes form, as we journey through lush Cloud Forest with its vegetation of orchids, bromeliads, mosses and ferns.

Not exact matches

Communities should contain patchworks of flammable fuels such as vegetation, houses and cars, interspersed with less flammable and nonflammable areas such as parking lots and areas cleaned of vegetation.

«Lush green tropical vegetation can be ripped away by a storm's strong winds, leaving the satellite with a view of more bare ground.

Under the agreement a perpetual restrictive covenant has been placed on the 121.7 ha which will require the area to be maintained and managed for its value as native vegetation with improvement of its assessed habitat score from 7/10 to 8/10 over a 20 - year period.

Troye Sivan released his new single «Bloom» on Wednesday night along with a lyric video featuring a lithe, CGI version of the singer twisting in the air in the middle of an industrial building with various types of vegetation growing insi... Read

Let us start tomorrow with: XIPE TOTEC, the Aztec god of spring (the beginning of the rainy season) and of new vegetation.

Today history informs us that the vegetation of this landscape died with the Roman Empire itself.

The Thing as it approached them spread outwards with prodigious rapidity as far as his eye could reach, filling the whole of space, while its feet brushed lightly over the thorny vegetation beside the torrent, its brow rose in the sky like a golden mist with the reddening sun behind it.

This was a beautiful region rich in virgin timber, resplendent with rolling hills and gentle valleys, full of vegetation and wild game — a prize waiting to be captured.

We are reminded of our interdependence with soil and the vegetation it makes possible.

Yahweh is not some sort of Baal, a blind and brutal natural force... His destiny, like that of His people, is not identical with the cycle of the seasons, the regular succession of the day and the night, the growth and decay of the vegetation; Yahweh is the Lord of history, whose word alone creates and preserves Israel in life.»

This was thought by some to be another seasonal myth describing the death and resurrection of the vegetation god, but the myth is not tied to an annual cycle and is much more concerned with the threat of periods of drought and the way to ensure the supply of the lifegiving water on which men, animals and all vegetation alike depend.

Yahweh will make with them a covenant of shalom, which will include the banishment of wild animals, abundant showers, splendid vegetation.

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.

But they were trapped in the morass of polytheism; one of the reasons for this was that the traditional associations of various deities with particular phenomena — the sun, the moon, the stars, storms, vegetation, the sea, and so on — meant that the obvious multiplicity of nature kept getting in the way of their struggles to apprehend the unity of the divine.

In the Ugaritic tests dew was always associated with the restoration of vitality, and consequently played a part in the Baal myth, for the very good reason that in Palestine the night dew assists in keeping vegetation alive during the almost rainless four months of summer.14 Some also regard the reference to Leviathan, «that twisting sea - serpent» and «monster of the deep», in Isaiah 27:1, as an echo of a Phoenician tradition concerning a demonic monster who guarded the gate of the underworld.

increased cover and diversity of in - stream aquatic vegetation, particularly in areas of the Wakool River downstream of the confluence with Yallakool Creek

Re-establishment of flood - tolerant bank vegetation following the millennium drought will provide habitat for a number of native species and also assist with bank stability during natural floods and heavy rainfall.

From where I stood, it was hard to distinguish forest from coffee — and in fact, the coffee plantings are so well - interlaced with natural vegetation that ocelots, sloths, and a wealth of other tropical species roam the farm.

On the contrary, the new agroforestry criterion 2.5 will be mandatory for all certified farms after a phase - in period of three years and will ask for a significant portion of trees and natural vegetation on farms with the aim to stabilize the agro-ecosystem and increase the environmental services provided on certified farms.

As noted in the previous post, the criteria having to do with vertical stratification — the number of layers of vegetation and the leaf volume in each — are critical components for preserving a rich mix of species.

Farms or groups of farms with non shade - tolerant crops have at least 10 percent total native vegetation coverage across the farm or groups of farms.

In years of relatively low flow, changes in weir pool levels in conjunction with environmental water use can confer ecological benefits between the river and floodplain, such as nutrient exchange and wetting of fringing vegetation.

In the Mallowa system, 204 ha of wetlands were inundated with Water for the environment during 2015 - 16, promoting the growth of native vegetation communities.

«The largest agricultural land use is grazing of native vegetation at 45pc with 90pc occurring on leasehold land.

In the Mallowa system, 204 ha of wetlands were inundated with Commonwealth environmental water during 2015 - 16, promoting the growth of native vegetation communities

Farms with shade - tolerant crops have at least 15 % total native vegetation coverage across the farm or groups of farms or a shade canopy fulfilling the SAN canopy cover and species diversity parameters.

Farms or groups of farms with non shade - tolerant crops have at least 10 % total native vegetation coverage across the farm or groups of farms.

A major part is covered by woods, but some areas with less vegetation even remind of the American southwest.

Evidence suggests that the Indians, through the burning of remnants of logs, branches, weeds, crop remains, felled secondary growth vegetation, near - by forest litter, and cut material brought to the fields along with kitchen - fire carbon and ash from the houses, modified the fertility of their soils.

They would inevitably come back to Auckland, a sprawling city that can feel like a British suburb until you notice the Maori and other Polynesian residents, the odd vegetation, or that Santa Claus in the Christmas displays in the windows of Smith and Caughey department stores hanging out with pirates and wearing shorts and jandals for the holiday.

The silicone, combined with textured lines resembling the shape of vegetation, provides a better grip.

The island is also covered with a dense vegetation of shrubs, brambles, and poison ivy, which make access to and across the island extremely difficult.

When Noah finished his transaction with the vegetation and Jo caught sight of him tucking in his shirt, she lowered her own shirt, lifted her hands, and yelled, «Taa daa!»

Some of the acquired land was set aside for the Grand Concourse and Pelham Parkway, the first of a series of boulevards and parkways (thoroughfares lined with trees, vegetation and greenery).

European Rabbits have been introduced as an exotic species into a number of environments, with baleful results to vegetation and local wildlife.

The researchers tested how future precipitation and temperature projections would interact with aspects of the land surface such as vegetation and soil type to affect groundwater recharge during two time intervals: 2021 - 2050 and 2071 - 2100.

They then compared the impact of today's fragmented vegetation, obtained from satellite images, with that of 1788, prior to European settlement.

With global climate models projecting further drying over the Amazon in the future, the potential loss of vegetation and the associated loss of carbon storage may speed up global climate change.

Tropical forests covered most of the globe, including Europe, and even Antarctica was covered with vegetation.

The researchers found that the presence and seriousness of gastrointestinal parasitic infections were higher in more urbanized areas with land covered by compact soil and cultivated vegetation.

The study, «Response of understory vegetation to salvage logging following a high - severity wildfire,» reports a modest difference between logged and unlogged areas for some shrubs, but researchers with the agency's Pacific Southwest Research Station conclude the diversity of plant species and their abundance, as a whole, differed little between logged and unlogged sites.

Using HydroSED 2D, a computer modeling system developed at the University of Illinois, they incorporated two - dimensional flow modeling, soil characteristics and information about vegetation to analyze the vulnerability of the landscape compared with observed impacts.

In separate surveys, Ulrich, Orians, and others have found that people respond strongly to landscapes with open, grassy vegetation, scattered stands of branchy trees, water, changes in elevation, winding trails, and brightly lit clearings, preferably partly obscured by foliage in the foreground.

Other biopesticides, such as fungal bioherbicides for vegetation management, are being commercialized, with an estimated North American annual market value of $ 48 million.

«This provides us with a comprehensive three - dimensional digital model of the landscape, which enables a precise analysis of the vegetation structure,» says Jussi Baade, associate professor of Physical Geography at the University of Jena.

This was revealed when the researchers merged their forest coverage maps with other maps depicting different types of vegetation.

The same investigator observed a 4 - year - old Maniq girl sitting by herself cutting pieces of vegetation with a machete.

At project's end, the facility had porous paving, 10.4 acres of green roof, and wetlands with native vegetation.

Falcarius's neck was elongated, perhaps for ease in browsing tree branches, and it tromped about in a landscape lush with vegetation, says Lindsay Zanno, a University of Utah doctoral student.