Sentence examples for intensively converted from inspiring English sources
This paper presents a multidisciplinary approach used to assess historical land-use and land-cover (LULC) changes and their impacts on the environment in southeast Mato Grosso State, a region where the Cerrado has been intensively converted into agricultural lands.
This was obvious in non-intensively harvested systems that were converted into more "productive" systems, e.g., mires and wetland, or when there was some access to almost pristine locations that served as a reference, e.g., forests, mountains, coast bottoms, and mires and wetland.
Many of the formerly intensively cultivated or grazed areas were converted to forest and wilderness through afforestation or abandonment.
One bottleneck has recently been converted from open prairie to an intensively developed natural gas field.
The swamps which formerly covered vast areas of Andapa Basin have been converted to rice paddies which are intensively cultivated; however the Tsimihety traditionally practice slash and burn techniques on the hillsides in preference to irrigated rice fields.
