Hydrologic response units (HRU) are lumped land areas within the subbasin that are comprised of unique land cover, soil, and management combinations (Neitsch et al. 2005).
In contrast to the high biomass forests, large regions of the country are comprised of deforested land with very low carbon stocks.
The urban landscape is comprised of many land uses, none more intensively managed than turfgrass; however, quantification of nutrient losses from specific land uses within urban watersheds, specifically golf courses is limited.
Despite being mostly comprised of desert land and lacking sufficient rainfall for most agricultural activities, the country does have fish-rich waters and large amounts of phosphate.
Model exploration assessed the distribution and density of eggs laid on a spatially-explicit 148,665 ha landscape comprised of 17 land cover classes with varying milkweed densities.
Thus, our principal objective was to determine which spatial scale has a greater association with the distribution of each bird species using riparian corridors in a landscape mosaic comprised of anthropogenic land uses and undeveloped native shrublands in coastal southern California.
The Martel Forest is primarily comprised of Crown land that is managed in accordance with the Crown Forest Sustainability Act (1994) and a well-established forest policy and legal framework that incorporate sustainability, public involvement, Aboriginal involvement, and adaptive management as key elements.
The study area was comprised of four land-use types with natural areas at higher altitudes, upland areas with fruit orchards, paddy fields and residential areas at lower elevations.
Figure 4 shows that the land use in this area which comprises of agricultural land (cropland, fallow land and plantation), water bodies (stream and tank), forest plantation, wasteland (land with or without scrub, stony waste, rocky knob and sheet rock area) and built-up area as identified from LISS IV imagery.
Compilation of the database required definition of a island as a discrete landmass within the Pacific Basin comprised of contiguous areas of land ≥1 ha (0.01 km2) above mean high-water level.
