Sentence examples for fallow vegetation from inspiring English sources

As a result, in high population areas the landscape became dominated by fields planted to rainfed upland crops, wetland rice terraces, fallow vegetation, and patches of secondary forest.

Up to medium land use intensities, a negative tradeoff exists between farmers's interest in crop productivity per unit area, and environmental interests in carbon stock and other parameters related to age of the fallow vegetation such as biodiversity.

Hence, fallow vegetation is changing within 5 7 fallow/cropping cycles after deforestation from tree (Trema orientalis) to shrub (Psiadia altissima, Rubus moluccanus, Lantana camara) to herbaceous fallows (Imperata cylindrica and ferns) and grasslands (Aristida sp ., when land falls out of crop production.

Fallow vegetation was manually slashed with machetes and, for the longer fallows, some large trees were cut with a chainsaw.

However, it is generally difficult to specify when the cropping phase ends and the fallow begins as harvesting of plantains and tubers might continue after fallow vegetation has become established (Mutsaers et al. 1981).

In the maize after a 2-year fallow, decomposition of slashed fallow vegetation during the cropping season was estimated in plots that were mulched and in additional plots subjected to burning that were not used for the yield assessment reported here (Norgrove et al. 2003).

For the 20-year fallow, understory vegetation biomass was sampled at the end of the cropping phase and the % biomass contribution of tree seedlings was calculated (Hauser and Mekoa 2009).

In the 6-year fallow, 12 understory vegetation samples, 0.5 m × 0.5 m, were taken per plot at the end of the 3-year cropping phase, divided by species.

The birds preferred recent fallows and grassy vegetation of mid-size (about 11 20 cm) and mid-density (about 11 50% cover).

On April 15, rivers and lakes are sharply defined against a backdrop of vegetation and fallow agricultural land….

Figure 14 A small flock of sheep grazing herbaceous vegetation on fallow land in west-central Greece.