Like most Chinese official-speak, the phrase "Belt and Road" obscures more than it clarifies: the "belt" will be composed of land routes running from China to Scandinavia, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Middle East; the "road" refers to shipping lanes connecting China to Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
The surface is simulated by a checkerboard type terrain composed of land or ocean pixels.
DVCs was generally lower in landscapes (100- and 1000 m buffers) composed of land that is more open.
The first —primarily composed of land speculators who had bought large land parcels on credit and were unable to repay their debts due to the financial crisis —was dubbed the Relief Party (or "faction") and favored more legislation favorable to debtors.
We must therefore consider merchants as the natural representative of all these classes of the community.... [T]he representative body, with too few exceptions to have any influence on the spirit of the government, will be composed of land-holders, merchants, and men of the learned professions.
A swidden cultivation landscape mosaic, for example, is defined as a cluster of land cover mosaics that may be composed of any land cover except permanent agricultural fields or paddy (column C).
Considering that great part of the tropical area is composed of agricultural land and that most of the land use is either intensified or on the verge to be, a relevant question is: how may agricultural intensification of the landscape matrix affect the population dynamics of understory birds?
"I believe that such accidents could be prevented by providing a sort of safety keel, composed of the landing chassis, petrol and oil tanks and the aviator himself, placed well below the planes proper".
Tick species diversity was highest in sites with >15% of the surrounding landscape composed of undeveloped land.
This model is composed of a land surface scheme containing simple urban physics, coupled to a 3-D atmospheric boundary layer module.
