For example, Annear et al. [ 39] found that residents of an area perceived to have a poor quality physical and social environment engaged in leisure time physical activity less frequently than those living in a higher quality area of the same city.
In conclusion, high patch quality and a network of high-quality areas in the surrounding landscape should be the best conservation strategy to ensure conservation of dry grassland specialists.
There may be competition for high-quality areas determining the number of different refuges each lizard can occupy.
Alternatively, if there is strong local variation in resource availability, colonies in denser high-quality areas could be more successful than colonies in poorer sites of low density.
There is considerable discussion about the relative importance of conserving high quality wilderness areas (i.e. large and intact landscapes) versus conserving areas with high biodiversity values.
HNV is used as a proxy indicator to measure biodiversity and high environmental quality areas across the EU (Paracchini and Britz [2010]).
The battle against too many turbines will be helped if the Wolds wins an upgrade from its current High Quality Landscape Area status to the better-protected Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Especially graphene synthesis on Copper substrates has resulted in high quality, large area graphene growth.
While h-BN is an ideal substrate for high performance graphene devices, it is still challenging to synthesize high quality, large area h-BN films.
More than 700 volunteers have collaborated to provide rescue workers with high quality maps of areas in the Philippines hit by typhoon Haiyan.
