Sentence examples for marginal environments from inspiring English sources

Declining farmland resources coupled with global warming have forced rice cultivation to marginal environments and beyond the normal rice season.

This natural resource management system is an adaptation to marginal environments, characterized by climatic uncertainty and low-grade resources.

This suggests that intercropping is more beneficial in less fertile fields and in more marginal environments such as the NGS.

The area under cultivation has declined by nearly two thirds since this time largely as a result of the large-scale abandonment of wheat farming in marginal environments.

Rainwater harvesting is an important practice to improve water and land productivity and to cope with climate change in the drier marginal environments.

This project is aimed at answering the questions: How, when and under what environmental conditions were so marginal environments permanently colonized during the Middle Stone Age?

Diamicton and esker gravels were deposited subglacially by an ice sheet withdrawing westwards; glaciolacustrine sediments located along the south margin of the esker ridge were laid down in an ice marginal environment as a subaqueous fan composed of silt, sand and gravel, and as distal deposits composed of silt and clay in the lower ground area between the fan and the esker ridge.

"Thus, they were able to sustain large dense populations in what many would consider a marginal environment".

Despite the marginal environment of the Tien Shan, migrants from eastern China and from Siberia and Central Asia continue to move into the region in large numbers.

The conventional view of anthropologists used to be that the early people of the South American tropics were hunter-gatherers who lived in a marginal environment and never developed large, complex cultures.

Continual periodic and permanent migration, reliance on central government subsidies, high infant mortality, and chronic malnutrition are symptoms of the difficulty humans have had adapting to this marginal environment.