Sentence examples for held wetlands from inspiring English sources

It includes what the department called "dysfunctional," or largely drained, wetlands, and produced a total figure of 110 million acres of privately held wetlands.

The pre-settlement wetland map represents the maximum capacity of natural carbon held by wetlands for the Holocene by assuming the cumulative increase since the deglaciation (e.g., [2, 3, 11]), and modern-day map is comparable to how much has been altered by human land use change (e.g., pre-settlement wetland converted into farmland).

The purchase price jumped because a real estate developer had a provisional contract with the seller and already held a wetlands permit to build a 10-lot subdivision there.

Based upon this index, the absolute and relative water that could be held by wetlands over a landscape could be modeled.

We estimate that pre-settlement wetlands held up to ~ 3.3 Pg of carbon relative to ~ 1.3 Pg for present-day (total across all wetland classes).

The first Pestival, held at the Wetlands Centre in Barnes, south London, hosted 10,000 people; last year's incarnation, at the Southbank Centre, drew crowds of 200,000 and was supported by 260 volunteers.

The duration refers to the number of months during which the wetlands held water.

In the wet season, herders use surface water held in temporary wetlands scattered across the northern Sahel to water their animals, while they benefit from protein-rich pasture (Breman and de Wit 1983).

Another widely held assumption about wetlands is that they sustain river flows during droughts, thereby providing a useful service for downstream water users.

A member of the local community counted the number of animals at the wetland on a particular day each week for as long as the wetland held water.

We have wetlands beyond the house.