Sentence examples for estimates of land from inspiring English sources
Fritz, S. et al. Downgrading recent estimates of land area available for biofuel production.
These countries could presumably boost food output by taking in some new land.But estimates of land availability are contentious.
We conclude that implementations costs are non-trivial in size, including compared to estimates of land users' opportunity costs.
The research team analyzed arsenic data for hundreds of wells in two different drought periods alongside centimeter-level estimates of land subsidence, or sinking, captured by satellites.
Our overall estimates of land area suitable for rainfed agriculture is moderately influenced by the assumptions about the cultivated areas within pixels classified as agriculture (see Methods).
So there is much discussion about estimates of land consumption, the manageable size of megacities, and simple ways to structure, if not to control, this vast spread of urbanization.
In particular, previous studies built based on the earlier version of the GTAP-BIO model resulted in estimates of land-based emissions of ethanol expansion which are too small by about one quarter.
A high expectation for forest mitigation emerges both in countries' climate targets (i.e., the nationally determined contributions, NDCs), where forests are assumed to provide up to a quarter of planned emission reductions by 2030 [2], and in estimates of land-based mitigation potential [3] and pathways to achieve 2° [4].
Our estimates of land-use intensity of production are shown in Table S1 and Supplementary Text S1.
While our methodology does not allow a full statistical analysis of the uncertainty of our estimates, the variation between the least compact and most compact estimates of land-use intensity captures most of the uncertainty.
