The aim of this study is to detect and quantify the dominant land cover changes in a human dominated forest site in Northern Japan.
Herrerasaurus flourished at a time just before dinosaurs became the dominant land animals.
Tundra is the dominant land type of the Arctic and subarctic regions.
These modest goals were in keeping with Germany's position as the dominant land-based power in continental Europe.
In earlier centuries sea transport was dominant, land transport being carried on chiefly in winter, over snow and ice.
He continued, however, until 1740 to keep the land tax at a low rate, thereby winning important support from the nation's dominant landed class.
Despite the decline in countryside, agricultural land remains the dominant "land-cover" type in the UK, accounting for 57 per cent of the country.
The dinosaurs emerged in the late triassic period, around 230m years ago and became the dominant land-dwelling vertebrates for the next 160m years.
It is thought that the end-Triassic extinction was the key moment that allowed the dinosaurs to become the dominant land animals on Earth.
Following their victory over Napoleon in 1815, Russia and Austria had entered the 19th century as the dominant land powers; by century's end each had been weakened by the very forces that once made it great.
