Sentence examples for changes of vegetation from inspiring English sources

The results indicate that regional changes of vegetation structure under changing climates are expected to be significant.

To address this question, the spatiotemporal changes of vegetation growth in upper Shiyang river basin together with their responses to climate changes were investigated using SPOT VEGETATION Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and climate datasets from 1999 to 2013.

Multitemporal analysis with the support of GIS techniques has great potential for assessing and monitoring landscape diversity and typical changes of vegetation and for planning sound interventions in landscape structures.

The responses of Iberian vegetation to climatic changes during the Pleistocene have been spatially and temporarily complex, including rapid changes of vegetation in parallel to orbital and suborbital variability, and situations of multi-centennial resilience or accommodation to climatic changes.

In semiarid savannas of Southern Africa current land use practices and climate change may lead to substantial changes of vegetation structure in the near future, however uncertainty remains about the potential consequences and the magnitude of change.

We conducted a germination experiment in the greenhouse to evaluate the effects of different sediment loads on the seed bank of Calamagrostis angustifolia wetland community under two hydrological regimes (0 and 10 cm water depth), and a vegetation survey in the natural and sediment disturbed sites to investigate the changes of vegetation community with high sediment accumulation.

Wall-to-wall information about the state and change of vegetation is needed in many ecological applications, such as the monitoring of large conservation areas.

We used all available Landsat observations (circa 3000 scenes) from 1982 to 2015 and a self-adjusting double logistic model to detect and quantify the annual change of vegetation phenophases, i.e. indicators of seasonal changes in vegetation.

In all, the topography NDVI/NDII relations defined in this paper may improve the understanding of the multi-scale and property-specific role that mountain topography plays in the formation and seasonal change of vegetation patterns.

The change of vegetation cover in the second year of study did not alter significantly the overall conditions for runoff initiation, showing similar cumulative flow vs. rainfall response, implying that soil conditions, such as humidity and cracks, best explain the flow generation process on the semiarid micro-scale watershed with Vertisol soil.

change of vegetation type [6].