Sentence examples for disturbance impacts from inspiring English sources
This could account (in part) for some of the onerous and often costly procedures required when applying conventional restoration approaches (usually reserved for less assertive disturbance impacts) to highly disturbed post-mining environments (Gardner and Bell 2007; Koch 2007).
Human disturbance impacts soil properties in UGS mostly through intensive management and waste discharge.
We propose that these bioindicators be used as part of local-level validation monitoring to test hypotheses about disturbance impacts.
Remote sensing observations are essential to track forest disturbance impacts and changes in land cover and forest carbon at a range of spatial scales [44, 45].
Accurate assessment of soil carbon fractions would provide valuable contributions towards monitoring in ecological observatories, assessment of disturbance impacts, global climate and land use change.
We here present a process-based model of wind disturbance impacts on forest ecosystems, integrated into the dynamic landscape simulation model iLand.
The operation at low speed is improved by reducing the disturbance impact.
The numerical examples illustrate the total disturbance impact under different initial conditions and scenarios.
Here, possible development pathways of post-mining landscapes were identified in relation to the severity of the disturbance impact and the design of rehabilitation approaches.
In the first case, we mainly modified the 'disturbance matrix' that describes the proportion of C transferred between pools and to the forest product sector or released to the atmosphere [8], in order to be consistent with the disturbance impact reported by the FORESTORMS database.
The likely development pathways of post-mining landscapes were identified by comparing the planned severity of the disturbance impact and associated rehabilitation design (according to Doley et al. 2012) to which the notions of threshold ir/reversibility have now been added to distinguish between the respective domains of near/natural, hybrid and novel ecosystems (according to Hallett et al. 2013).
