Sentence examples for focusing on forests from inspiring English sources

And, while focusing on forests most at risk now, it is important to establish a separate mechanism for protecting forests that are not yet significantly threatened.

We describe management approaches to improve this foundation focusing on forests managed for multiple goals in the Pacific Northwest, where there is considerable potential for and interest in maintaining and enhancing biodiversity.

Now a study proposes that existing theories of how nitrogen cycles in and out of forests may share a central flaw: By focusing on forests in the Northern Hemisphere, scientists mistakenly came to consider inorganic nitrogen especially critical to forest ecosystems, when in fact it's a byproduct of industrial pollution.

But no similar large-scale conservation effort is focusing on forest elephants.

Regional divisions (Figure 2c) were mainly based on similar histories of forestland use[35] and for consistency with another study focusing on forest carbon changes at the same scale[17].

(1) The approach adopted by most planners focusing on forest fires dismisses the human dimension of fire as a component of agricultural production systems.

Most remote sensing studies focusing on forest degradation are driver specific and aim to detect canopy gaps and clearings through direct approaches such as spectral mixing [22, 23], or indirect methods such as mapping roads or human settlements [24, 25] or fire monitoring [26].

Among the non-specialised you see also some particular uses of DAs: reinforcing the rural economy of peri-urban areas and getting better governance for managing their relationship with the city (e.g. the rural district of Milan and the other three around the Milan metropolitan area); enhancing the environment and focusing on forest heritage in the Pistoia Mountains in Tuscany.

Regional divisions were mainly based on similar histories of forestland use [ 35] and for consistency with another study focusing on forest carbon changes at the same scale [ 17].

The study focused on forests more than 200 years old where rapid changes in demographic rates would more likely be caused by environmental changes rather than by internal processes like self-thinning that are more common in young forests.

Speaking last October to Mongabay.com, a Web site focused on forests and conservation, Ian Lifshitz said his company would continue to "support groups like the Consumer Alliance for Global Prosperity" that respect the economic rights of developing nations.