Sentence examples for modifications of vegetation from inspiring English sources

Altitudinal modifications of vegetation are clearly discernible on the high East African peaks near the Equator (e.g., Kilimanjaro and Mounts Kenya and Elgon), and a rich forest belt much reduced upslope by human activities, except where the land has been reserved clothes the zone that receives the maximum rainfall and is free of frosts (up to about 5,000 to 6,000 feet).

An earlier assessment in which human-induced modifications of vegetation cover were assessed in terms of their geomorphic responses is built upon (Liebault et al. 2005; Cohen and Rey, 2005).

Mann-Kendall's monotonic trend test was applied to 250 m MODIS NDVI time series (2000 2011) to assess modifications of natural vegetation cover.

Significant decreasing NDVI trends (p < .05) indicated negative modifications of natural vegetation (2000 2011 period) occurring along the protected areas borders and in fragmented landscapes characterized by disruption of continuity in natural vegetation.

change of vegetation type [6].

Alteration of vegetation patterns (ex.

Strategic modification of forest vegetation has become increasingly popular as one of the few preemptive activities that land managers can undertake to reduce the likelihood that an area will be burned by a wildfire.

Our results suggest that the Medieval Climate Anomaly chronozone was relatively warm and dry, followed by a cool-wet climate during the Little Ice Age chronozone, before a substantial modification of the vegetation landscape by Europeans occurred in the mid 1800's.

Dryness recorded in Australia after 45 ka has been interpreted as a feedback associated with changes in land-surface properties caused by human modification of the vegetation cover through fire [30], [31].

However, unlike beaver effects on North American herbaceous plant communities, much of this richness was due to invasion by exotic plants, and beaver modifications of the meadow vegetation assemblage did not result in a significantly different community, compared to forests.

The resulting framework includes both direct effects (such as disturbance and incidental predation) and indirect effects (through modifications of soil and vegetation properties) of large herbivores on arthropod communities.