Sentence examples for more intensive land from inspiring English sources

More intensive land use on these soils has resulted in greater demand for information on distribution, properties, and behavior of these soils.

This tendency is evidenced by relict landscape features (e.g. road gullies, abandoned roads) formed in the period of more intensive land use, for which higher dynamics of the morphogenetic system may be inferred.

The transformation of swidden landscapes into more intensive land uses has generally increased household incomes, but has also led to negative effects on the social and human capital of local communities to varying degrees.

In general, less intensive land use tended to cause increased provision of water purification, and sediment- and water retention while more intensive land use such as irrigated agriculture, pasture, and arable land (Table 3, e.g., Ca-2, Ca-3, Sl-5) had contrary effects.

Our prognosis is that, despite the global trend towards land use intensification, in many areas swidden will remain part of rural landscapes as the safety component of diversified systems, particularly in response to risks and uncertainties associated with more intensive land use systems.

We note that the two regions also are different in terms of macroclimate, geology and Holocene land-use histories, with the Alps encompassing a larger climatic variation, having a more heterogeneous geological structure and experiencing a more intensive land use for a longer time than the Scandes.

The rise of agriculture enabled even greater population growth requiring ever more intensive land-use practices to gain more sustenance from the same old land.

The researchers found that land-sharing cattle farms retain less total bird biodiversity than do more intensive land-sparing cattle farms -- but only if the neighbouring contiguous forest is protected from human exploitation.

The 1st to 2nd order stream buffers have 12 28% greater agricultural land area percentage and 0.45 1 m shallower soil depth than the 3rd to 5th order stream buffers, suggesting that the headwater areas in the study watershed are important in preventing nonpoint source pollution due to the more intensive agricultural land use and potential erosion in headwater catchments.

In order to go into detail we will focus on results of scenarios NRP-1, D-1, DCC-4, and C-1 (Figure 5a d), to display the impact of more intensive and less intensive land use on the provision of ES.

Whether ethanol is even energy-neutral is debatable, as it requires almost as much energy to produce as it actually produces, and the environmental consequences in the form of more extensive and intensive land cultivation are ambiguous.