The ICECAP-O measure covers attributes of capability found to be important determinants of QoL among older adults in the UK [ 11, 15] – its descriptive system results from an extensive qualitative investigation [ 15].
The questionnaire covered site attributes pertaining to ecosystem services and disservices, as well as sensory experience, maintenance, and biodiversity, and recorded preference for retaining diverse forest patches in residential areas as opposed to replacing them with manicured greenery.
Though the cover attributes the book to J. K. Rowling, the British author, her publisher says the official version -- its title and subject matter will be different -- will not be available until next year.
The assessment was based on the typology of hydrogeomorphological and land cover attributes of river catchments through ArcGIS analysis.
In this case, the layers are terrain attributes derived from a digital elevation model and land cover attributes derived from three bands of a SPOT image.
Individual woodland species showed a range of responses to five main structural and compositional categories: (1) land use, (2) tree cover and composition, (3) eucalypt regeneration, (4) shrub cover, and (5) ground cover attributes.
In this context, using 12 reclaimed mines in northern Spain colonized mainly by two leguminous shrubs (Cytisus scoparius and Genista florida) we explored: (i) how organic-matter thickness, bryophyte cover and plant diversity and cover attributes change across a gradient of dominant shrub cover/volume, and (ii) how the understorey plant species were associated with these shrub canopies.
In this study, a simple stratified sampling scheme was applied to a mesoscale survey of western and northwestern Irish lakes, which was carried out to identify, based on the distribution patterns of phytoplankton biomass, potential associations between lake trophic state and land cover attributes.
Each of these methods use remote sensing data inputs to characterize forest cover attributes that can influence NPP.
Less than 1% of the medical costs covered injuries attributed to acts of violence, smoke inhalation or contact with fire or extreme heat, Personnel Department data show.
