Sentence examples for expansion of forest from inspiring English sources

In recent years, some municipalities have shown an expansion of forest cover, mainly due to land abandonment and forest recolonization.

The expansion of forest plantations in New Zealand has modified both the landscape and the country's economic environment.

Nevertheless, there is great potential in terms of the spatial expansion of forest areas and the shift of suitable forest categories [10].

By promoting agroecological benefits through regeneration and expansion of forest cover, community members also make use of the forests for economic purposes.

They also must weigh the prospects for continued market expansion of forest products, and the competition with agriculture land, and concerns of target countries with limited land resources.

Several interactions generate new impacts: drought and land use changes, among others, alter water resources and lead to land degradation, vegetation regeneration decline, and expansion of forest diseases.

There has also been a major expansion of forest-conservation schemes, with 94 million hectares of global forest placed under legal protection since 1990.

The expansion of forests, parklands, wetlands and rural ecosystems also received excellent marks.

This contraction and expansion of forests is a major force driving speciation in many groups of forest-limited taxa in Africa.

The Middle Holocene (9.3 6.5 ka) climate was warm and humid, resulting in the expansion of forests.

"The results show changes in high latitudes, particularly in Scandinavia and eastern Siberia, with a northward shift of biomes," indicating an expansion of forests further north, Viovy says.