Sentence examples for maintaining patches from inspiring English sources

In addition to funds to keep farmers afloat after their losses, the legislation also helped them avert future disaster by promoting more sustainable agricultural practices, such as maintaining patches of forests to protect soil and crops from the wind -- a strategy that offers additional benefits for wildlife and water quality.

We find encouraging evidence that some network topologies allow effective patches to be widely deployed while still maintaining patch diversity.

"Cloud providers will generally be more proactive in terms of ensuring software is up-to-date and maintaining patch levels," says Mr Cotton.

Our study corroborates the need to maintain patches of forests as islands and stepping stones for biodiversity conservation and restoration.

Outside of parks and wilderness, prescribed fire with logging was effective at reducing fire risk on portions of the landscape in two restoration scenarios, largely by maintaining deciduous tree dominance and fire-tolerant red and white pine stands, and timber harvest alone maintained patches of less fire-prone deciduous forests in some scenarios.

Using Microsoft Windows Azure was advantageous in this example as this is a PaaS, negating the need to maintain, patch and update the underlying OS.

The management plan is therefore to maintain patch dynamics.

Landscape ecologists also realize the significance of maintaining smaller patches like Edgewood Park because they link larger preservation areas together.

In contrast, the clonal growth of V. neoglutinosa, with ramets that develop only after sexual reproduction and arise inside the mother-plants, practically without spacer structures, lead to the formation of compact small clonal fragments, retaining their original site of occupation, maintaining the patch size.

Without para-cultivation as the case in Zoulabot Ancien, to maintain yam patches requires considerable distances between settlements and yam patches to avoid negative human impacts on the formation of yam patches.

Conversely, if management objectives include maximizing wildlife diversity, managers should use a more variable fire regime across the landscape, from annual to less frequent 5 year burn intervals, to maintain localized patches of oaks and increase the compositional and structural diversity within the system.