Sentence examples for a critical zone from inspiring English sources

A study published this month in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that federal land-management agencies, from 2004 through the end of last year, had mostly failed to reduce fire fuels near communities that are in or next to wildland forests — a critical zone of high fire risk called the wildland-urban interface.

It will also send alerts to players whenever they fall into a critical zone such as low hydration levels while on the field, which can help avoid injury and aid recovery.

Koiliaris River watershed is a Critical Zone Observatory that represents severely degraded soils due to intensive agricultural activities and biophysical factors.

The proximal region of the human respiratory system is a critical zone to recapitulate for use as in vitro alternatives to in vivo inhalation toxicology.

Indeed, Loukaitou-Sideris (1999) adapted Angel's 1968 idea of a critical zone of population density beyond which violent crime may occur, and suggested that on transit systems a second critical zone of intensity may exist.

To understand these processes, we analyzed Fe chemistry and isotopic composition in regolith of the Shale Hills watershed, a Critical Zone Observatory in central Pennsylvania overlying iron-rich shale of the Rose Hill Formation.

The prevailing environmental conditions of low moisture and sparse vegetation that characterize deserts result in a unique Critical Zone.

Just 20km north of the capital, San Salvador, Nejapa is an ecologically critical zone in central America's smallest and most densely populated country.

For a given zone velocity, critical zone width for propagation of a columnar grain is lower than that for its development.

A comparison demonstrates that the tensile properties of 12Cr1MoV steel were degraded by long-term high-temperature service, whereas a comparison of the creep-fatigue crack growth rate characteristics indicates that they are a function of the critical zone positions in the considered pipe bend.

Landscape ecology provides an important framework for Critical Zone research through: (1) integrating 3D dimensionality in the analysis of landscape systems; (2) contextualizing the Critical Zone processes both temporally and spatially; and (3) investigating problems related with scaling.