Sentence examples for land decline from inspiring English sources

Various studies have shown changes in LULC, with most of the changes being the expansion of cultivated land, the increment of bare land, decline in forest areas and reduction in grazing land (Dwivedi et al. 2005; Haile et al. 2010; Kidane et al. 2012).

Fig. 4 Percentage forest and woodland decline over time (curved line) after exponential interpolation between three forest and woodland cover data points obtained from satellite images (percentage forest and wood land decline at three respective periods: 1973(44%), 1985 (34%) & 2006 (14%)).

British Land declined to comment on the report.

The models measured rising costs as the output from Siberian fields on land declines.

Over time the composition of wealth changed; agricultural land declined in importance while industrial capital factories, machinery and intellectual property gained prominence.

As the proportion of people working on the land declined, and more people spent more and more time indoors, houses came to be built with more and bigger windows, as well as growing extra rooms.

Similarly crop land declined from 31% in 1973 to 25% in 2000 and 3% in 2015.

For the whole study period (1964-2014), the forest covers and wet land declined by 1.25 and 1.09% per year respectively.

Over the last 40 years, the grazing land declined to a half by the post-2009 drought period in the sedentary land use site.

Estimations derived from the resource maps drawn by the community showed that grazing land declined by 30%% and settlements increased by 21%% over the last four decades as illustrated in Table 1.

The outcomes indicated that the share of rural housing in the increase of total construction land declines gradually from the upper reaches to the lower reaches of the Yangtse River, i.e. from Ganzi Yushu to Luzhou Diqing, Enshi Chongqing, Tongling Yichang and to Shanghai Chaohu.