Sentence examples for highlands ecosystem from inspiring English sources

Rampant land clearing for agriculture and urbanization purposes have shown a negative impact on the fragile highlands ecosystem.

Highland ecosystems were the best represented in protected areas due to the preponderance of highland parks in the eastern Andes.

An improved understanding of the micro-geographic variation in malaria exposure in the highland ecosystems will be relevant in planning effective malaria control.

The Changthang region is not an administrative zone but the western extension of the Tibetan plateau, an important highland grazing ecosystem (Goldstein and Beall 1990).

The rising intensity of land cultivation and the ever-increasing demand for zebu pasturage had largely transformed the central highlands from a forest ecosystem to grassland by the 17th century.

Funders have included: The Highland Ecuadorian Agro-Ecosystem, Phase Two: Scaling Up and Out of the Research-Intervention Approach.

The emergence of the highland forest/grassland mosaic ecosystems during the same historical interval of this radiation may have facilitated a peripatric mode of speciation as these novel habitats created dispersal opportunities within the larger ranges of rainforest adapted species.

Johanna W The bofedales (wetlands) are an important, highly-complex ecosystem of the highlands in Bolivia and Peru.

Most of the original ecosystems of the eastern highlands have been destroyed, including the once luxuriant hardwood forests that dominated the eastern seaboard and the formerly magnificent Paraná pine (Araucaria) forests that covered the southern plateaus.

For successful dispersal and recruitment of O. europaea and S. abyssinica in degraded ecosystems in the Ethiopian highlands, the potential mother trees should be located not farther than the median dispersal distance.

PWS in Latin America typically involve compensating upstream rural producers for protecting and/or restoring natural forest ecosystems and highland natural pastures (páramo) (Pria et al. [2013]; Veiga and Galvadao [2011]; Grieg-Gran et al. [2005]).