Sentence examples for grassland clearing from inspiring English sources

Quants, a grassland clearing in a forestry plantation well known for its butterflies including Duke of Burgundy, Marsh Fritillary and Wood White, is a candidate for Special Area of Conservation (cSAC).

Trees are cut down, grasslands cleared, and wetlands drained in order to access agricultural land.

There is a lot of grassland management, clearing scrubs, coppicing.

The vulnerability of grassland to transition to cropland probably reflects the ease of clearing grassland compared to other natural vegetation.

We demonstrated that prairie dogs strongly suppressed woody plant encroachment as well as created open grassland habitat by clearing woody vegetation, and found rapid invasion of shrubland once the prairie dogs disappeared from the grasslands.

Such gains remain miniscule in comparison to the forest and grasslands being cleared in Brazil, India and elsewhere for industrial scale soybean and other food production.

According to its report, Pastures New, a reliance on soy imported from South America is leading to forests and grasslands being cleared for soy plantations, or for beef ranching which has in turn been displaced by other soy farms.

Multimammate rats are ubiquitous in grasslands and cleared forest across sub-Saharan Africa.

Much of the grassland is regularly cleared, and the light soils are easily cultivable.

One of the only places on Earth to see them in their natural habitat, the wax palms in Cocora Valley can grow to 60m tall, and hundreds of them randomly dot the cleared grassland like floral pinwheels, towering above fields of grazing livestock.

Somewhere forest or grassland will be cleared and carbon will be released into the atmosphere," added Simon Donner, a climate and agriculture expert at the University of British Columbia in Canada, who was not involved in the report.