Sentence examples for existing wetlands from inspiring English sources

Besides stormwater issues, these include controlling light pollution that could draw mayflies away from the river, and protecting a small tract of existing wetlands on the property.

He co-sponsored legislation that would have gutted existing wetlands protections, and resigned from the House Democratic campaign committee when the committee criticized the bill (he switched parties later that year).

If damage is unavoidable, the property owner must compensate by either creating new wetlands or restoring existing wetlands elsewhere.

Existing wetlands receiving drainage from irrigated agriculture demonstrated nitrate mass removal efficiencies between 23% and 35%.

Thus, draining of existing wetlands or replacement of ephemeral wetlands by more permanent impoundments (e.g. livestock ponds) may have negative impacts on amphibian populations [1].

112 This is likely to have huge biodiversity benefits by making the wildlife of existing wetlands more sustainable, increasing the general available resource for wildlife as well as providing better management of flood waters in low lying areas, river valleys and flood alleviation schemes in urban areas.

However, little is known about the effects of sediment diversions on existing wetland surface elevation and vertical accretion dynamics in the receiving basin at the landscape scale.

Bostic and White (2007) indicated that phosphorus enrichment of marsh soils can act as an internal source of nutrients to the water column and drive existing wetland eutrophic conditions.

Several existing wetland modeling tools may be suitable for application to tropical peatlands and some might be useful in Earth system models [ Farmer et al., 2012].

Llewellyn and others (1996) studied a restoration planning procedure for prioritizing existing wetland forest patches, and Walter and others (2000) suggested the term of HSA (hydrological sensitive area) for identifying water quality risk reduction targets.

Addressing this knowledge gap is of particular importance as models predict a global increase in CH4 emissions of 77%, due largely to increased emissions from existing tropical wetlands in response to increasing temperatures [ Shindell et al., 2004].