Sentence examples for conversion of wetlands from inspiring English sources

It is theoretically feasible to implement an ecosystem service payment system that can effectively compensate for the loss of nutrient buffer function caused by the conversion of wetlands.

Shoreline erosion along open water bodies and waterways is a major cause in the conversion of wetlands and uplands to open water habitat.

These include urbanisation and coastal development (for example, dredge and fill operations), industries including power and desalination plants and refineries, recreation and tourism, waste water treatment facilities, power plants, coastal mining and quarrying activities, oil bunkering and habitat modification such as the filling and conversion of wetlands.

The conversion of wetlands and its associated habitat for farming, residential development and commercial purposes has led to many small disconnected patches of native vegetation surrounded by generally inhospitable human altered land uses.

Depopulation trends in many developed regions are resulting in an increase in areas of abandoned farmland, which could provide an alternative habitat for species endangered by past conversion of wetlands for agriculture.

The nearly complete conversion of wetlands, forests and savannah woodlands into agricultural farms has negatively affected the supply of provisioning ecosystem services, such as water and firewood.

The conversion of wetland uses resulted in the loss of nutrient buffering functions.

In terms of fishery value, the additional nutrient load associated with the conversion of wetland uses would result in a reduction of at least 8% of the maximum sustainable yield.

The site also degraded by hundreds of cattle grazing, firing and conversion of wetland to farm land.

The value of human-made wetlands (2.62×104 US $/ha/yr) is 48% lower than that of natural wetlands (5.04×104 US $/ha/yr), indicating that the conversion of natural wetlands for aquaculture from the sustainability perspective is not significant.

The expansion of large urban areas results in the conversion of forests, wetlands, deserts, and other adjacent biomes into areas devoted to residential, industrial, commercial, and transportational uses.