Highly sloped tunnels are subject to more erosion as water flows at a higher speed.
Decreased vertical precision produced a large proportion of points with zero slope gradient and zero slope curvature, and a large number of steeply sloping and more highly curved areas.
Conversely where there is a deficit in sediment supply, erosion can be reactivated by removing vegetation on highly erodible slopes.
The zone surrounding Oldoinyo Lengai is characterized by highly negative slope values, due to the rapid degradation of the vegetation state impacted by ash deposition.
Agricultural lands in the study area are characterized by different landforms, highly varied slope gradients, diverse altitudinal ranges and almost similar agro ecology.
For centuries, large areas were cultivated to feed the local population, with highly marginal slopes being tilled at times of heavy demographic pressure, using the shifting agriculture system.
Threat indices were highly correlated (slopes of 0.94 1.63; R2 of 0.82 0.98), and were highest for watersheds close to urban centers, including Phoenix, Tucson, and Flagstaff, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada.
The relationship between observed DHW and percent coral bleached was highly significant (slope = 3.41, intercept = 26.94, DF = 359, p<0.0001, r2 = 0.24).
This close relation between the perceived CA and the average SVV is highly significant (slope = .24, r = .40, p = .007; Figure 1C) confirming that participants do not judge the stability of falling objects relative to a veridical estimate of gravity.
The relations between MAT and the traits Feret diameter ratio, Tooth area : blade area, and Average tooth area also had phylogenetic regressions with highly flattened slopes, similar to that of the NT-MAT relation (Figure 2; Table 1).
