Sentence examples for cultivation intensity from inspiring English sources
Plantations of short-rotation coppice (SRC) have a potential for being a useful measure to stop the ongoing impoverishment of farmland biodiversity by increasing structural diversity, and decreasing cultivation intensity and use of pesticides in intensively managed farmland landscapes.
The relative importance of landscape features and cultivation intensity for the regional diversity was compared.
This is consistent with studies on local scales, which emphasise the importance of cultivation intensity for arthropod communities.
Total species richness was correlated with the mean soil-indices that were used as indicators of cultivation intensity.
These results do not corroborate concepts of using indices of landscape structure as biodiversity indicators, but the importance of cultivation intensity cannot be too strongly emphasised.
Concurrent data were collected from two sites on a nearby stream draining a watershed of similar size and cultivation intensity, but without widespread incision.
We showed that higher cultivation intensities in farmed landscapes resulted in increased income but also a decline in species richness of birds and trees, and reductions in tree carbon storage.
However, in up-scale or large volume cultivation, mean light intensity is a better indication of light condition; light intensity at the illumination surface, IS and opposite surface, BS (end of light path) need to be considered (Ogbonna and Tanaka 2000).
We defined two classes of cultivation and management intensity, distinguishing between areas with higher and lower intensities of cultivation and management, corresponding to the 1 15 and 17 18 classes of the GLC2000 dataset, respectively.
But Mr. O'Byrne's cultivation masked an intensity and ambition that vaulted him — just four years ago a volunteer for Howard Dean's presidential campaign — to the second-most-powerful job in state politics.
Thus, all levels of fatty acid contents detected at 18 days were higher than that detected at 14 days of cultivation under light intensity of 220 μmol/m2s.
