Sentence examples for half the basin from inspiring English sources

In all, more than half the basin is forest-clad.

The impacts are more pronounced in the downstream direction and are still apparent in the basin scale sediment yields, as deforestation of half the basin can increase decadal sediment yields by over 100%, whilst reforestation of half the basin can lead to 40% decreases.

Results show that deforestation or reforestation in one half of the basin can indeed affect the geomorphology of the other half, thus implying a geomorphological connectivity across the basin.

The Murray cod's natural range encompasses virtually the whole Murray-Darling Basin, particularly the lowland areas, and extending well into upland areas — to about 700 m elevation in the southern half of the basin and to about 1000 m in the northern half of the basin.

In the long run, the irrigation of pasture for livestock, which currently consumes about half of the basin's agricultural water, will not make sense.

But here in the southern half of the basin, home to descendants of the Acadians who settled in the 1700s and where countless Louisiana residents have passed their childhoods fishing and playing among its bayous and backwater lakes, several thousand people could lose everything.

Significant differences in annual streamflow based on the AMO were largely confined to the northern half of the basin.

In the other four simulations, half of the basin is subjected to either deforestation or reforestation during the simulation.

Even today, only around half of the basin has been explored; remarkably, fewer than 2,000 people are thought to have set foot inside the basin's rim.

It appears that in general, the natural status of the QMDB is one of salt accumulation and significant hydrologic changes – as represented through salt mass balance calculations – are largely confined to the eastern half of the Basin, although further change may yet express in the landscape.

By 1892 they had enrolled local people into their army and controlled the entire eastern half of the basin.