Sentence examples for been converted to intensive from inspiring English sources
The Amazon rainforest and cerrado grasslands have been converted to intensive croplands in recent decades, not to feed Brazilians but to export beef and soybeans that have brought "wealth and political influence to a small group of wealthy landowners," Phalan writes.
The results show that by 2006, (1) 70.5% of the natural or semi-natural land covers had been converted to intensive agriculture and other mono-functional uses, hampering the performance of regulating services and (2) 31% of the wetland area had been strictly protected, affecting cultural and provisioning services.
We report that parcels of semi-natural grassland were more likely to have been converted to intensive agriculture if they were large, had a high nutrient status and were in the proximity of land that has already been intensified; three variables indicating an environmental potential for intensification.
Most livestock rearing using pastoral practices in marginal areas has been converted to more intensive systems with livestock mostly reared in barns, relying on specialised forage production from more fertile areas.
Only about half of the areas currently protected will still experience a mediterranean climate at the end of the century; moreover, nearly one third of the land projected to maintain a mediterranean climate has already been converted to human use (such as intensive agriculture), thus eliminating or limiting its potential to serve as climatic refugia for native species [18].
The raw data were converted to IHS by multiplying the quantity and staining intensive score.
Biomass can be converted to greenhouse-gas-neutral liquid fuels; however, the conversion of biomass-to-liquid fuels is energy intensive.
