Sentences with phrase «with more vegetation»

At least half of the slowdown is thought to be due to changes in land use, with more vegetation and possibly more buildings making the terrain rougher (Nature Geoscience, vol 3, p 756).

Not exact matches

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

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.

Also, birds from sites with more cultivated vegetation were heavier — and significantly, heavier birds were more infected by the parasite.

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.

With more rainfall, vegetation increases, which then fuels rodent populations.

«We found a lot more animals in the places with thick vegetation, and a lot more cats in the open country.

Mount Baldy, a sand dune in Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, may appear to be no more than an innocent pile of sand grains speckled with vegetation, but the rolling slopes hide narrow, deep holes, which are evidence of entombed oak trees.

Neighbourhoods with more connected vegetation and trees allowed birds to move between garden bird feeders more frequently.»

In a comprehensive field experiment, the scientists sowed more than 90 different native and exotic plant species into 16 grasslands with different vegetation densities in the Canton of Bern.

«And perhaps more importantly, we caught about twice as many adult Culex mosquitoes in traps at basins after these plants were mowed, compared with basins where the aquatic vegetation was left intact.»

«The denser the urban area, the better the benefit,» Kalkstein said, pointing out that a city like New York with roughly 27,000 people per square mile could save many more lives with vegetation and albedo enhancement than Los Angeles with its 7,500 - people - per - square - mile population density.

Inland areas with low rainfall and more open vegetation had higher cat densities than most coastal, wetter areas, but only after extensive rain.

In some regions, the climate will become more arid, resulting in less vegetation in forests, with the end result being less fuel.

In the end, the research suggests that greenery enhanced with carbon nanotubes could potentially produce more from sunlight, air and water, although adding such nanomaterials would be both laborious and may have unknown long - term impacts on the vegetation as a whole as well as on the environment.

However, cutting emissions so that global temperatures increase by no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit) could reduce those impacts by half, with about a quarter of the state's natural vegetation affected.

Researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Università Politecnica delle Marche have found that green roofs with high vegetation density are 60 % more efficient than non-green roofs.

However, the findings in the study indicated that ravens also preferred nesting areas with non-native vegetation and they avoided junipers more so than on random sites.

The silicate + CO2 - > different silicate + carbonate chemical weathering rate tends to increase with temperature globally, and so is a negative feedback (but is too slow to damp out short term changes)-- but chemical weathering is also affected by vegetation, land area, and terrain (and minerology, though I'm not sure how much that varies among entire mountain ranges or climate zones)-- ie mountanous regions which are in the vicinity of a warm rainy climate are ideal for enhancing chemical weathering (see Appalachians in the Paleozoic, more recently the Himalayas).

And with each increment of warming, ice would retreat further, vegetation would advance accordingly, and more greenhouse gases would be released from ocean waters or frozen ground.

Additionally we compared the skill of chlorophyll fluorescence to commonly used vegetation index, fraction of photosynthetically active radiation that is more connected with the amount of green biomass than directly with photosynthesis.

Today, that love affair has become more public than ever, with almost every world cuisine offering some variation of punctured meat, pierced seafood or perforated vegetation.

Just as a lake with heavier vegetation provides a more fertile environment for fish to thrive, we believe the small - cap universe provides fertile ground for finding highly mispriced stocks.

Grenier joins scores of other tourists (more than 500,000 a year, to be exact), to travel to the 7.3 - square - mile island and snap a prized photo with the cuddly marsupials, who prefer to live in environments with thick vegetation and swamps.

However the changes in the vegetation and landscape as you climb through different climatic zones will keep you involved with the hike and focussed on discovering more as you climb.

With every mountain pass that is being conquered and left behind, the vegetation changes offering us yet more impressive views.

As we descend we'll feel the climate changing, becoming warmer and more alive, with more variety in vegetation, and we'll be accompanied by hummingbirds along the way.

Never has a place been more conducive to restoring and revitalizing the body and mind than the Rainforest Spa, with treatment rooms set into lush vegetation and overlooking a cascading stream.

The front nine is not unlike an English parkland course but with more tropical vegetation, while the back nine is the trickier half, with undulating fairways, lakes, and raised greens.

Rain falls with relative frequency the rest of the year, though the vegetation is far more green and lush, and prices are lower.

With its lush greenery, mountainous topography and colorful vegetation it's difficult to imagine a more fitting eco adventure tour that is suitable for all the family to enjoy.

The last portion of this particular trek has the ecosystem more typical of the Inca Trail with lush green vegetation and many archeological ruins.

A large South American environment awaits you with authentic landscapes, unique vegetation, local cows and sugarcane fields offering a total change of scenery and more gameplay possibilities!

The more I play MS: A I love it more and more, was a bit worried at first with no vegetation to race past but the concrete vegetation of MS: A works well in its own right.

Vegetation, mud, trees, shadows, etc. all pop in with more detailed textures around 20ft from your character, which makes it very noticeable.

Inspired by a text more overtly related to Henrot's interest in taxonomy and philosophy, «The Order of Things,» Michel Foucault, is an explosion of metal odds and ends mixed with anonymous vegetation and a rainbow of paint swatches — a colorful starburst of the playfully arbitrary.

When you look at works such as Sobel's untitled 1944 painting shown, the temptation is not to see the vegetation like drip pattern blending with the figure as much as to see the dripped paint obscuring the figure — just as circumstances conspired to obscure the figure of Janet Sobel for more than half a century.

These charcoals are suffused with more proximal references to nature, to foliage and vegetation.

But instead of an uninhabited, unbearably hot swamp ruled by primeval reptilian life and aggressive tropical vegetation, one enters an urban jungle of another sort: a more hospitable space populated with body parts and figures, both small and large, of diverse materials and colours, existing together in harmony courtesy of artists Rebecca Ackroyd, Kira Freije and Florence Peake.

While the two venues couldn't be more different, they both however introduced a new viewing experience that took our breath away, the former by hosting an illustrious selection of artists from the Prada Collection, such as Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Carsten Höller, across six progressively taller floors blessed with panoramic views of the city, and the latter by poetically juxtaposing contemporary design with the sprawling decadence of the dilapidated factory spaces partly overtaken by vegetation.

Worldwide, vegetation fires are showing a trend toward longer burning periods, increased fire severity, larger areas burned and increased (mostly human caused) frequency — with all of these factors contributing to more damaging environmental impacts, higher shares of emissions and increasing socioeconomic costs, including greater threats to human health and security.

The west Siberian tundra is certainly becoming more steppe - like, patches of tall shrub woodlands interspersed with low shrub graminoid - dominated vegetation.

Rising temperatures in the next few decades will lead to a «massive» increase in vegetation in the lands bordering the Arctic, with as much as 50 % more tree cover.

That reduces the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere somewhat, but as there is still an increase, the oceans are more important as temperature / CO2 regulator on medium term, while vegetation is faster on very short term (over the seasons CO2 goes down with temperature, over a year, CO2 goes up with temperature).

It doesn't matter if one includes or excludes outliers due to upwind (vegetation depleted) or downwind (volcanic increased) conditions in the Mauna Loa data, or if one uses the data of the south pole, or Barrow, in all cases the trend doesn't differ with more than a few tenths of a ppmv... And the averages within one hemisphere are not more than 2 ppmv different.

With coastal vegetation's improvement of water quality by filtering becoming more evident, it is also necessary to point out how young fish very often use these nursery areas to thrive; storms are buffered and even how many other (species such as manatee) are dependent on these habitats.

In the Arctic, the tipping points identified in the new report, published on Friday, include: growth in vegetation on tundra, which replaces reflective snow and ice with darker vegetation, thus absorbing more heat; higher releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from the tundra as it warms; shifts in snow distribution that warm the ocean, resulting in altered climate patterns as far away as Asia, where the monsoon could be effected; and the collapse of some key Arctic fisheries, with knock - on effects on ocean ecosystems around the globe.»

Drier desert conditions with few clouds and little vegetation creates a microclimate that heats up much more quickly than the other stations.

E.g., human - caused albedo variations from desertification, and to some extent tropical deforestation, were connected with past global climate changes by Sagan et al. (1979); a pioneering model confirming «the long - held idea that the surface vegetation... is an important factor in the Earth's climate» was Shukla and Mintz (1982); Amazon Basin: Salati and Vose (1984); more recently, see Kutzbach et al. (1996).

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE An extensive new study by climate impact researchers warns that humans will struggle to cope with drastic and rapid changes to the planet unless greenhouse gas emissions rates are cut now London, 8 October − Allowing the Earth's temperature to rise by more than 2ºC will see dramatic changes in vegetation across the planet and expose a billion more people to severe water scarcity, according to new research.