Sentence examples for forests and rainforests from inspiring English sources

By reducing the acidity of the soil (as at Cremaq), Brazil has turned the cerrado into one of the world's great soyabean baskets.A new study by the World Bank says the world has half a billion hectares of land with fewer than 25 people per square kilometre living on them (this excludes land on which farming would be impossible, such as deserts, forests and rainforests or the Antarctic).

Terrestrial palaeobotanical records indicate a shift from widespread Araucarian forests and rainforest, including 'tropical' taxa now extinct in the region, to a landscape by the end of the Late Pliocene similar to that of the present day with a mosaic of Eucalyptus Acacia Casuarinaceae sclerophyllous forests and open vegetation, with local areas of Nothofagus-dominated cool temperate rainforests.

The species is found in wet sclerophyll forest and rainforest margins on sandy soils.

Thus, the greater the difference between dry forest and rainforest NDVI, the greater the value of ΔNDVI.

The past five million years saw a dramatic transition of vegetation cover in the area, with forest and rainforest being replaced by more open vegetation and sclerophyllus woodlands.

In Madagascar, troglodytes is widespread throughout the east in secondary habitats, including coastal scrub, eucalyptus plantations, littoral forest, and rainforest below 800 m elevation.

However, these data require substantial processing for applications in spatial analyses and are sensitive to cloud contamination [ 37]; these data may not be useful for regions with cloud forest and rainforest.

Progress, made together with communities and groups, to keep our old growth forests and tropical rainforests standing is critical.

Increasing species extinctions Reduction of coral reefs, mangrove forests, and tropical rainforests Threats to small island states in the Pacific as sea levels rise Increasing drought threats in Africa More severe flooding in densely populated river deltas in Asia More severe weather in hurricane prone zones.

Light is often the limiting factor in tree survival or growth in both northern hemisphere hardwood forests and tropical rainforests - tree individuals exhibit plasticity in terms of tree architecture to utilise light resources and allocate then into growth and survival [ 22].

As most of the cultivation of these leaves is illegal, producers have to grow their coca in the forest, and the rainforests of South America are an important ecosystem.