Sentence examples for landscape stress from inspiring English sources

To that end, we have developed two new indices that describe deficits in water supply and increases in landscape stress.

We employed the USGS Basin Characterization Model to characterize drought on the basis of water supply (a measure of recharge plus runoff) and landscape stress (climatic water deficit).

Landscape stress is characterized on the basis of the calculation of climatic water deficit (CWD) first coined by Stephenson (1998) as the evaporative demand that exceeds available water and calculated as potential minus actual evapotranspiration.

Annual anomalies in comparison to the long-term 1910 2016 are shown for precipitation, average air temperature, soil moisture, CWD (landscape stress index), recharge, and runoff (combined to be water supply index), averaged over the whole basin in Fig. 5.

The spatial distribution of the average annual water supply, as indicated by recharge plus runoff, and the landscape stress, as indicated by CWD, is shown in Fig. 3a, c.

The difference values were aggregated and divided by 5 years to estimate the number of years the water supply deficit and landscape stress had accumulated as a result of the drought and how many years of average climatic conditions would be necessary for the system to recover to normal hydrologic conditions.

Telecoms pioneer Funke Opeke – founder and chief executive of MainOne, which has played a major role in transforming west Africa's internet landscape – stresses that better and more affordable access to the internet must also be a priority.

Within complex economic landscapes, stress the blindingly obvious: Africa's middle-class is "huge, growing at electric pace" (despite the inconvenience of peasants and urban underclasses), the "demographic dividend" is massive even if niggling problems of job creation will remain unresolved, and what goes up once, or for a few years (such as GDP), must always do so.

Habitat use and dispersal behaviour may alter with changing landscapes, stressing the evolutionary dimension that has often been ignored in landscape ecology (Baguette and Van Dyck 2007).

Now, with houses and strip malls crowding the landscape, the stress on even the smallest of dams has increased.

Flint et al. (2018) examine the recent drought and recovery in the state of California using two different drought indices (one for natural water supply and one for landscape water stress) developed from water balance modeling.