Sentence examples for insufficient vegetation from inspiring English sources

A non-technical definition is that deserts are those parts of the Earth's surface that have insufficient vegetation cover to support a human population.

As an exception, we found even very frequent MODIS observations to be insufficient for peak vegetation composites due to interference with the rainy season.

When the disturbances stop, the diaspore communities might initiate a first, but with respect of landscape protection and preservation of species diversity insufficient step of vegetation restoration.

However, the simplicity as well as low energy and monitoring requirements of this technology are often counterbalanced by frequent operational problems consisting of slow and insufficient dewatering, poor vegetation growth, odor, and overall poor mineralization of the sludge residues.

The ratio of numbers of species sampled to overall estimates of plant species richness was wholly insufficient for highly diverse vegetation types such as tropical rainforest, seasonal forest and cerrado, and only slightly more robust for less diverse vegetation types, such as deserts, arid shrublands and open grassy savannas.

Field measurements from Tlaxcala, Mexico stress that restoring agricultural structures (the arrangements of landforms and vegetation) is alone insufficient.

The koono showers that fall in the dry season may be sufficient to promote the growth of browse vegetation but are insufficient to sustain the growth of grass, and therefore would not be a reason for migration to such areas.

At large, the results suggest that the existing buffer vegetation width is insufficient for filtering purposes and that the buffer width proposed in the Brazilian environmental law, thus suggesting that the quality of water supply for this catchment might be at risk.

Although the more ruderal species can be extremely abundant and widespread in these highly modified habitats, our observation indicated that some less abundant and more geographically restricted species are susceptible to mowing during the reproductive season, insufficient disturbance to remove woody vegetation, herbicide applications, and invasions of aggressively competitive non-native species.

For example, climatic control of local vegetation zones was often found insufficient to explain vegetation changes; on the contrary, soil patterns and geologic history quite override climatic control in many localities.

Landsat imagery, with its 16 day temporal resolution, is often thought of as being insufficient for timely observation of changes in vegetation throughout the year.