Sentence examples for landscape remnants from inspiring English sources

The concept can be applied to practices that maintain traditional techniques in rural or pastoral landscapes, but it can also refer to the land qualities of natural landscape remnants, or of new, contemporary landscapes.

In most urban and agricultural landscapes, remnants of native vegetation are surrounded by an inhospitable matrix.

Ecological networks (ENs) are interconnecting landscape-scale remnants or restored natural habitat for mitigation of habitat loss and fragmentation.

The dominant urban and agricultural matrix of southern Ontario is a novel landscape with remnant woodlands embedded in it.

In intensively used agricultural landscapes the remnants of natural flora only persist in small habitat islands embedded in a hostile matrix.

Years of observation in Karoo veld convinced JP Acocks that the perennial grasses that he occasionally encountered in barren Karoo landscapes were remnants of pre-colonial vegetation.

To test this, we examined the distribution of ground-active beetles in a landscape of remnant Eucalyptus open woodland patches where large areas of lower contrast matrix (farmland) are being transformed to high-contrast pine plantations in south-eastern Australia.

Such interplay with adjoining ecosystems emphasises the need for conservation of large woodland sites and conservation of suitable landscapes with remnant woodlands and surrounding grasslands.

General prescriptions for the future include maintaining or creating habitat heterogeneity in largely deforested landscapes where remnant closed forests still exist, and active restoration in landscapes where little heterogeneity remains.

While many ELS options can provide good quality habitat for pollinators, it is highly unlikely that these measures alone would be able to sustain diverse pollinator communities and are best employed in moderately diverse landscapes, where remnant source populations exist in pockets of high quality semi-natural habitats (Scheper et al. 2013; Batary et al. 2010).

Theirs is a splintered landscape, defined by remnants of houses, overturned cars and bark-stripped trees that jut from the earth like hands reaching for help.